Tag Archives: NYPD

The Bronx DA has dropped the charges against three of the eleven gang members accused in the brutal anti-gay hate crime that took place in the Bronx earlier this month. A total of 11 people were charged in connection with the crime. Today, the Bronx District Attorney’s office dropped charges against three of those people. Their names are not immediately …

The NYPD have arrested the ninth and final suspect in last week’s brutal gay-bashing in the Bronx. Ruddy Vargas-Perez had been sought since shortly after he and eight other gang members allegedly attacked a 30-year-old man and two teenage boys on Oct. 3-4 in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx. Vargas-Perez, 22, was the target of a citywide dragnet …

Atlas Shrugged blogger Pamela Geller, also the founder of Stop The Islamization Of America, will be staging a massive rally tomorrow at Ground Zero. And the NYPD is gearing up for an ugly situation. “We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don’t want the opposing sides to clash,” an NYPD official told The Post. “All eyes are going …

Such a look that man gave me.

Last night a free concert by Canadian rapper Drake drew several times the capacity at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport, prompting the NYPD to cancel the show over safety concerns. You can guess what happened next. Lots more videos at Gothamist.

As I told you back in February, as a cost-cutting measure the NYPD has mandated that parade routes be significantly shorter in 2010. Accordingly, today NYC’s Heritage of Pride announced that they were reducing the length of this years parade by 16 blocks. Via press release: Although the March used to begin at 52nd St. & 5th Ave., this year, …

Wayne Mahlke, the former vice president and co-founder of the Lesbian & Gay Democratic Club of Queens, faces seven years in prison over a nasty and seemingly unprovoked confrontation with a female NYC cop. A foul-mouthed former aide to disgraced ex-Sen. Hiram Monserrate cussed out a city cop and tried to bully his way out of an arrest by flashing …

The NYPD has released surveillance video of a “balding white man in his 40’s” leaving the vicinity of the SUV left in Times Square on Saturday night. In a chilling surveillance video released late last night, the man is seen at the end of Shubert Alley peeling off a sweatshirt he’d been wearing over a short-sleeved red shirt, furtively glancing …

Well known NYC gay activists Allen Roskoff and Corey Johnson say they were harassed outside a West Village gay bar by a man later identified as an undercover NYPD detective. Chi Chiz, a Christopher Street bar favored by black gay men, has been the subject of a recent raid over allegations of drug dealing inside the club. Club owners are …

After today’s twin bombings of Moscow’s subway system, the NYPD has stepped up its presence at many major NYC subway stations, especially in high tourist areas like Times Square. Following two suicide bombings in Moscow’s subway system on Monday morning, the New York City Police Department is beefing up security underground. The NYPD says straphangers can expect an increased police …

If you’re one of the folks who never makes it through the entire Pride parade, you may be in luck. NYC’s parades will have to be shorter in duration and in route according to a new rule issued by the NYPD. On Monday, the department announced that starting on April 1, the city’s parades must cut the distances they cover …

Seven year-old Kiki Joachin was rescued by NYC cops and firefighters in Haiti after spending eight days buried in the rubble. (I’d like to thank the 100+ JMG readers who sent this in to us. Now stop.)

The NYC Council is fighting amongst themselves over the decision to rename a Queens street after Sean Bell, the twice-arrested drug dealer who was shot at 50 times by the NYPD after they mistakenly (they say) thought he was reaching for a gun. Bell was killed and his case resulted in major reforms in NYPD procedures, although the firing officers …

If haven’t gotten your dad that holiday Rotex yet, it might be too late. Local news is reporting that the NYPD has shut down a large swath of Chinatown today in a massive crackdown on counterfeit luxury handbags, watches, fragrances, etc. A strip of stalls selling counterfeit goods in Chinatown were raided Tuesday morning, shutting down the notorious shops just …

Congratulations are due to the NYPD for giving this case its proper urgency and attention. Police say they have collared their second suspect in Friday’s brutal beating of a gay man in Queens, just as a video of the crime has surfaced, ABC local affiliate WABC reported. Twenty-one-year-old Daniel Rodriguez was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Services …

Blake Hayes, a NYC-based TV and radio host, says the NYPD refused to investigate after he and two friends were gay-bashed in Hell’s Kitchen. From Hayes’ blog: Two punches to the face. Thrown against a car, denting its body. Told we should die of AIDS. Is this what you should expect walking down 9th Ave with a couple friends? I’ve …

The NYPD is still using typewriters for some of their reports. And spending up to $1M a year to do so. Public records show that the city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with Afax Business Machines in 2008, as well as a $99,570 contract with that company in 2009. Typewriter company Swintec received a $982,269 contract from the …

On Monday I nearly got clobbered by some dizzy broad whipping into the crosswalk while she yammered on her cell. (No right on red in New York, bitches!) Therefore I am highly pleased by the NYPD’s just-launched “cell phone ticketing blitz” which resulted in 4000 $120 citations yesterday alone. More please.

All those protests and rallies about the NYC gay men falsely arrested for prostitution at the city’s adult bookstore have seen results. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News reports on the latest development: Activists who met with Robert Morgenthau report that the district attorney said he would investigate the 2008 prostitution arrests of at least 30 gay and bisexual men …

Late Wednesday night, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the NYPD has made an arrest in the brutal murder of Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay (left), who was beaten to death in Brooklyn two months ago when assailants mistook Jose and his brother for gay lovers because they were walking arm in arm. Hakeem Scott, 25, has confessed to the murder, but his …