The Editor Speaks: Dodgy parking tickets
An article appeared recently on the website engadget: Open data reveals dodgy NYPD parking ticket practices New York City police were taking $1.7 million a year from drivers obeying parking laws. By Jon Fingas From engadget Open data policies in…
US Court says violating your work’s computer policy isn’t a crime
By Jon Fingas From engadget Your employers might shake their fists when you check Facebook at work, but they can’t have you sent to prison for it. A US appeals court has ruled that breaking corporate computer policies isn’t against the…
W.I. Day Parade in Brooklyn Mon (7)
By Caitlin Nolan , Stephen Rex Brown from New York Daily News NYPD dispatching additional 1,500 cops to monitor pre-dawn parties before West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn The NYPD is dispatching an additional 1,500 cops to keep an eye…
Holder promises ‘fair and expeditious’ investigation of Eric Garner death
By Zoe Tillman, From Legal Times Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced late Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating potential federal civil rights violations in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died after a…
Distorted and inaccurate mainstream media coverage marred the West Indian American Day Carnival parade –
By J. McCallister From New York Daily News – and others also took aim at the Labor Day festival Newsweek.com reveals the carnival procession was pelted with “racially charged” and anti-Caribbean comments on a police officers’ website and Everybody’s Caribbean…
Shooting death of homeless camper sparks outrage against Albuquerque police
By David Usborne From The Independent UK The latest shocking death at the hands of Albuquerque’s Police Department has sparked protests- the department that kills more people than the NYPD Captured by a video camera on one of the officer’s…
Black Brooklyn pols ‘vindicated’ in stop-and-frisk ruling: Clarke
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Brooklyn Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke says black elected officials in Central Brooklyn are feeling “somewhat vindicated” over a recent court ruling against the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk policy against Blacks…
