Just one person The entire agency must be rooted from the ground up. Caban is only the symptom of this disease that’s embedded in NYPD.

💯 we agree: Eric Adams should resign

it is my most dearly held belief that to become an american all you need to do is stand with both feet on our soil and say truthfully “i wish to be an american”. my second most dearly held belief is that anyone opposed to this is fundamentally unamerican

The NYPD has quietly reduced the suggested punishment for cops guilty of abusing authority, using offensive language, failing to take a civilian complaint, and conducting an unlawful search, THE CITY has learned. thecity.nyc/2024/09/13/cab…

Parents and families need a lift — not Governor Kathy Hochul’s political stunts. It’s time to start congestion pricing and invest in building a fully-accessible transit system.

Unfortunately, immigrant street vendors in NYC can't afford to bribe Eric Adams & his corrupt NYPD buddies.

A police officer in NYC faced demotion and retaliation from higher-ranking cops because he was ticketing drivers that have "courtesy cards" issued by police unions that normally let drivers get away with violations, and now, taxpayers have to pay him a $175k settlement.

cops fatally shooting a turnstile jumper and unloading rounds into passerby is a whole new level even for this era. this is fucking insane

New: At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn't access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories. propub.li/3N7xPgN

BREAKING: The feds have arrested two retired FDNY fire chiefs — the latest development in the ongoing problems for the Adams administration with the SDNY. The full extent of today’s investigation not immediately clear. nypost.com/2024/09/16/2-f…

SCOOP: A high-level NYPD official whose phone was confiscated by the FBI in a federal corruption probe of the department is leaving the force. Raul Pintos, who served as chief of staff to police commissioner Edward Caban, filed for retirement on Friday. thecity.nyc/2024/09/16/rau…

New video has emerged of NYPD cops brutally beating a man working at a homeless shelter. The cops didn’t have a warrant to enter the facility, and the workers’ boss told him not to let them in. So they attacked him. Trigger warning for the video.

It's beginning to seem like the Occam's Razor explanation is that the cops lied about the guy having a knife after realizing they had to cover for themselves firing their guns on a subway car over a $2.90 fare evasion stop gone bad.

Insanity

A bystander the NYPD shot in the head during their mass shooting on Sunday, identified by his family as Gregory Delpeche, is now brain dead. pix11.com/news/local-new…

In many places, the Silk Road followed the Oxus: river cut a natural path through mountains & deserts & ensured there was always drinking water. Along the way, there are still ruins of caravanserais where merchants stayed, like this one -- Kyr Kyz in Termez. #oxusexpedition

Dental insurance is wild We changed from Aetna PPO (through NYP/Weill Cornell and Columbia Medical center) to also Aetna PPO (through Columbia University). Somehow, the new Aetna PPO pays less, so I need to find a new dentist. Make it make sense

THIS is how you write a headline and sub header to an article on events like this. mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/24/suv…

Public opinion on housing policy in NYC is shifting at an astonishing speed. NYers are telling us: They want us to build more housing so they can find a place to live. Let’s listen to them.

Will Eric Adams be remembered for being unbelievably corrupt? Yes. Will he be remembered for being extremely odd and saying odd shit? Yes. Will he also be remembered for hurting the homeless, hurting our schools, hurting our libraries, hurting Black and brown New Yorkers? Yes.