Friday, 9 January 2015

Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown

Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown


For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier. After perceived slights by Mayor Bill de Blasio, civil protests against police brutality, and the murder of two officers by a deranged gunman, the New York Police Department is fighting back by not doing its job. Or rather, police appear to be using...

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