NYPD

Evidence shows that NYPD detectives colluded with prosecutors to falsely convict of a man of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993.(AP/Mary Altaffer)
Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers.
Quezada spent 24 years in prison for murder before winning his freedom in 2015 when, after decades of failed appeals, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office conceded that prosecutors involved in his case had withheld critical evidence during his trial.

Bog bodies, alleged abuse and the science of "The Scream" + this day in history w/Brandon Lee and our song of the day by David Bowie on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2017.

Brooklyn businessman Jeremy Reichberg, right, leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, Monday, June 20, 2016, after he was charged with showering New York Police Department officials with tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, including vacations, prostitutes and home improvements so that he could use the NYPD as his private police force.

(ANTIMEDIA) Brooklyn, NY — In a clear-cut case of abuse of authority, a former assistant district attorney in New York is now facing federal charges for allegedly using government resources to spy on a love interest.

Members of the Thin Blue Line were forced to arrest one of their own after he was busted masturbating while peering into a child’s window.
New York City Police Detective Robert Francis, 46, was in Rockville Centre police custody charged with public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child after he was arrested him at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to Pix11.

The settlement would be among the largest city payouts in history, almost twice what the city paid to the Central Park Five (AP/Mary Altaffer)

NYPD cops brutally beat 19-year-old Jateik Reed for resisting arrest and carrying drugs in 2012. Drugs were never found and the case was dismissed in court. Reed then filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city.
Now New York City has settled the lawsuit with Reed, who is now 24, for the amount of $614,500, his lawyers announced earlier this month.

On today’s episode I take a close look at the Reverend Al Sharpton’s work as a confidential informant for the FBI. I discuss his time as CI-7 and how this formed the man that Sharpton would become later in life. I begin with his early years working at Spring Records and how this initiated Sharpton into the world of organized crime. I look at his connections with the Gambino and Genovese crime families, and how an FBI cocaine sting led him to become one of the Bureau most protected and valuable informants.

Institute For Justice | October 12, 2016 When undercover NYPD officers offered to sell stolen electronics to customers at Sung Cho’s laundromat, near the northern tip of Manhattan, Sung never imagined the sting operation could be used as a pretext to shut down his business. But that’s exactly what happened. Attorneys for the city threatened […]

Sadly, this is not a joke.