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NEW YORK—On Nov. 14, just after 12 p.m. on the west border of City Hall Park, the sounds of pots, pans, noisemakers, and chanting rang through the air.

Internal city documents show slow responses to mass looting, as NYPD’s heavily militarized riot squad cracked down on protests.

Miller also noted that only 69 of the 976 complaints made against individual officers last June and July named SRG officers, which he suggested “may be due to the advanced training SRG officers receive in team tactics for arrests that are specifically geared to reduce injuries to those being arrested and to the police officers arresting them.” Yet the SRG was heavily involved in some of the most brutal repression of protests in the wake of Floyd’s killing last summer, including the violen...

Overall crime is up 2.4 percent from the same time last year There is a 36 percent increase in murders and 35 percent hike in auto thefts On Monday, a five-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet in a random shooting A tourist from Kansas City was also recently grazed by a bullet in Times Square Meanwhile, a retired crime reporter was beaten on Easter Sunday in Harlem Over the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $1 billion cut to the NYPD This week, de Blasio claimed that New Yorkers were not...

Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared to walk back his fear comment on Thursday On Wednesday, de Blasio claimed that New Yorkers were not living in fear amid the current surge in crime, which shows no signs of dwindling soon  But on Thursday he admitted there is fear but said New Yorkers fight back  Overall crime is up 2.4 percent from the same time last year There is a 36 percent increase in murders and 35 percent hike in auto thefts On Monday, a five-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet in a random...

arrow Members of the Strategic Response Group confronting a Black Trans Liberation march in November Scott Heins/Gothamist On a Thursday night in November, two days after the presidential election, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn for a march against police brutality. The event was one in a series of Black Trans Liberation marches, a recurring protest and pride parade held each week since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Unlike the previ...

City Comptroller Scott Stringer By Michael V. Cusenza City Comptroller—and mayoral candidate—Scott Stringer recently unveiled a 50-page blueprint for a new approach to public safety. Stringer’s plan, which builds on his June 2020 analysis of the City Police Department budget, would move responsibilities away from the NYPD, address serious crime and the recent increase in shootings, improve accountability and civilian oversight of the NYPD, and reinvest police dollars into communities. �...

An unprepared NYPD badly mishandled Floyd protests, watchdog says By Ali Watkins New York Times,Updated December 18, 2020, 11:55 p.m. Email to a Friend New York Police officers stood in line after curfew hours in Brooklyn on June 3.Amr Alfiky/NYT NEW YORK — A city oversight agency on Friday sharply criticized the New York City Police Department’s handling of protests during the summer, finding that the police were undertrained, were unprepared and had engaged in “excessive enforc...

Protests rocked the city in late May and early June after the Minneapolis death of George Floyd, a Black man who was caught on camera begging for help while officers knelt on him. Multiple cops now face charges in his death, but the public outrage over his anguished final moments sparked a nationwide reckoning with policing and social justice. At least one NYPD officer ultimately faced assault charges for shoving a protester during that violent period, which was so intense that the city imposed...