NYPD Police Trouble Blotter
Aside from the Diallo and Louima cases, the NYPD is also grappling with
some other charges of police misconduct.
 Police
Commissioner Howard Safir came under fire for going on an Academy Awards junket while
protesters were demanding action on the Diallo case.
As many as 20 Manhattan officers may soon be
indicted over allegations they received sexual favors from a Midtown brothel in return for
shielding it from raids. The officers have already been stripped of the their guns and
badges based.
Federal and state officials are looking into
whether the department’s “stop-and-frisk” tactics violate the public’s
rights. The Civil Rights Commission will hold hearings in May.
According to Amnesty International, there were calls for an
inquiry into police brutality by the NYPD following a series of highly publicized cases
during the 1980s.
They include the cases of:
Michael Stewart, a young African-American who
died in 1983, 13 days after being taken to the hospital hogtied, bruised and in a coma
following his arrest by 11 officers from the New York City Transit Police Department.
Eleanor Bumpers, an elderly, mentally
disturbed woman who was killed in 1984 by armed police who broke into her Bronx apartment
to evict her after she had fallen behind with her rent. In both cases, the officers were
acquitted of criminal wrongdoings.
And in April 1985, officers from the 106th
Precinct in Queens were accused of torturing three suspects with an electronic stun gun to
force them into a drug-related confession. Two officers and a sergeant were convicted of
assault and other charges and sentenced to prison terms from two to six years. Several
high-ranking police commanders were also dismissed.
Quality of Life in
NYC
Rishi Maharaj
10/98
beaten by three white males in Queens, NY
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Tyisha Miller 12/98
killed by California police
Rodney King
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in Other States
Kennith Harris
8/97
killed by Arlington police
Charanjit Singh Aujla
12/98
killed by Mississippi police |
Amadou Diallo 2/99 POLICE CLEARED! 2/00
   
The shooting death of Amadou
Diallo has caused many to speak out against New York City's Police Department.
Chronology
“This is one of the worst fears a mother could go through,” said Mala Ramnarine, a
neighbor and mother of two who moved to the Bronx from Guyana three years ago. “No
mother wants to know that her kid died like that, especially if there is no reason for
it.”
41Shots.Org: Reform the
CCRB and the NYPD
NAACP to join NY
protest of Diallo police killing
NY1
News has been providing extensive coverage of the Diallo shooting and its
repercussions. Poll: How would you
charge the Diallo officers?
The
Village Voice The only good immigrant is a dead immigrant?
Human Rights
Watch - Shielded from Justice: New York
Amnesty
INternational - Police Brutality in NYC
New York City Police Department
• NYPD - 43rd Precinct
Abner Louima 8/97
 
NYCLU
Nothing
Personal by Barbara Smith
Wyclef Sounds Off On Police
Brutality
Embassy of Haiti in Washington, D.C.
Unofficial Haitian Home
Page
Patrick Bailey 11/97
The Village Voice NYPD officer Kenneth Boss Diallo blasted another black man, Patrick Bailey, in
the back and let him bleed to death.
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Abner Louima speaks at the House of
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