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NYPD Reformer's City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers arrow Edwin Raymond GRIFFIN LIPSON/BFA/SHUTTERSTOCK When NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond blew the whistle on alleged arrest quotas pushed by the department, he became a target of scorn and derision from his superiors who wrote poor job evaluations, which hobbled his career. His revelation that a numbers-obsessed NYPD was purposefully arresting Black and brown New Yorkers as a means of being "proactive" -- which he opposed despite confidants advising he keep quiet -- earned him national pr...

Rikers Island Correction Officer Attacked By Inmate, Has Front Teeth Knocked Out KEY POINTS He was previously sentenced for robbery and drug dealing He attacked another correction officer with hot water in 2018 A Rikers Island correction officer was attacked by an inmate and had his front teeth knocked out Saturday when he was trying to bring back two inmates who had left the housing area. Devon English, a 30-year-old Bloods gang member, assaulted the correction officer by punching him in the face, according to a statement from the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA). Eng...

A dispute last week between City Councilman Daniel Dromm and the head of the city’s largest correction-officer union about solitary confinement has led to a call for punitive sanctions—in the form of the Queens lawmaker's resignation.   The exchange between Mr. Dromm and Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio started typically enough, if a tad testily, during the Council’s Dec. 11 Criminal Justice Committee hearing on legislation sponsored by the Councilman that would curtail the use of inmate isolation in city jails.  Push Comes to 'Th...

December 15, 2020 7:03 PM Since George Floyd’s death in May, Black Lives Matter activists have demanded that their elected officials “Defund the Police.” But many Democratic-controlled cities that followed through with these far-left demands are today witnessing an uptick in violent crimes. Portland “increase police accountability and reinvest in black and brown communities.” Wheeler proposed that over $7 million should be redirected from the Portland Police Bureau to communities of color. His  “Police Reform Action Plan” sought to dissolve the city’s Gun Violence Reductio...

December 15, 2020 7:03 PM Since George Floyd’s death in May, Black Lives Matter activists have demanded that their elected officials “Defund the Police.” But many Democratic-controlled cities that followed through with these far-left demands are today witnessing an uptick in violent crimes. Portland “increase police accountability and reinvest in black and brown communities.” Wheeler proposed that over $7 million should be redirected from the Portland Police Bureau to communities of color. His  “Police Reform Action Plan” sought to dissolve the city’s Gun Violence Reductio...