Schenectady PD warns of scammers pretending to have affiliation with agency | The Daily Gazette
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DailyGazette.com/SubscribeA message posted to the Schenectady Police Department’s Facebook page Thursday alerted the community to the ongoing phone and email scams.
The caller asks for personal information and use “deceptive, high-pressure fear tactics to get the victim to submit payment or face criminal penalties.”
Police were made aware of the local scam the past several days, the social media post read.
During the call that mentioned the police chief, the victim was threatened with arrest because of a purported issue about three residents’ social security numbers.
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Black arrest rate in Capital Region remains high; progress sought, no easy solution seen | The Daily Gazette
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CAPITAL REGION Any sense of progress in increasing racial equity in the criminal justice system is tempered by the fact that there’s a very long way to go to reach this goal.
Across New York state as a whole and in the Capital Region, Black people are arrested at a far greater rate than white people relative to their percentage of the population, Hispanic people at a somewhat greater rate and Asians at a much lower rate.
Black adults are arrested in New York significantly more often than white adults (136,219 vs. 118,952 times in 2019), despite white New Yorkers outnumbering black New Yorkers by nearly 4 to 1.
Extremist linked to Schenectady church threat, dozens of other threats elsewhere, sentenced | The Daily Gazette
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The former leader of a violent extremist group in Texas who federal authorities linked to a swatting incident at a Schenectady church in December 2018 was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy across the U.S.
John Cameron Denton, 27, of Montgomery, Texas, was sentenced for his participation in a conspiracy that conducted swatting attacks on at least 134 locations from October 2018 to February 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Tuesday.
Swatting is a harassment tactic that involves deceiving emergency dispatchers into believing a person or persons are in imminent danger of death or bodily harm.
Letters to the Editor Sunday, April 25 | The Daily Gazette
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Last year, our governor ordered municipalities to review their police policies with reform as their charge.
To the credit of Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy, Police Chief Eric Clifford and our City Council, the policies of the Schenectady Police Department (SPD) were reviewed, input accepted, and reform adopted with the passing of the ‘Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative’ plan.
However, at the City Council meeting that adopted this plan, The Daily Gazette reported council member Marion Porterfield commented that officials “added back in” knee holds.
In response to Porterfield’s statement it was reported, Chief Clifford wrote the council member a letter stating, “Claims that we added knee to head holds back into the department’s Use of Force policy are false, and I urge you to understand how detrimental spreading misinformation is to our efforts to build trust within the community.”