A suspected drug trafficker who's been hiding out from police for nearly two decades was wounded during a shootout with deputy U.S. marshals in New York City.
The unjust treatment of patrons based on race by food service employees within the restaurant industry is systematic and industry-wide. Racial stereotypes often inform the way staff and servers interact with customers, influencing the quality, timeliness and efficacy of service.
Family members of the man who died last Thursday after New York police officers allegedly put him in a choke hold met with officials from the U.S. attorney's office on Friday to demand a federal investigation into the incident.
Entire force will undergo training on the use of violence. Every officer in the New York Police Department will be required to undergo additional training on the use of force after a man died last week in police custody, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton said Tuesday, according to ABC News.
Gilberto Valle's, a former NYPD officer, 2013 conviction of kidnapping conspiracy was overturned Monday when the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence that Valle planned to actually kill and eat anyone.
Although the New York Police Department (NYPD) announced the disbanding of its controversial Muslim surveillance program last month, a growing number of Latino Muslims living in New York City remain concerned about being watched and harassed by authorities.
Forty-seven-year-old “Friends” actor David Schwimmer helped save the day in an NYPD assault and robbery case.The New York Daily News reports that Schwimmer allowed the NYPD access to his home security footage in East Village to help build a case against an alleged robber who attempted to steal one Schwimmer’s neighbor’s laptop.
Emma Watson has hired a former NYPD lieutenant to be her personal bodyguard and pays Denise Morrone $150,000 (£90,000) a year. Morrone, who used to be with Staten Island's 122nd Precinct, was hired after an on-set incident with a fan that freaked out the Harry Potter star.
Months prior to her death, Garcia filed a police report explaining to the authorities that she feared for her life; and months later she would make a similar phone call. She reiterated details about her violent home life in her native Spanish, but because the domestic-incident report was never translated to English it was overlooked.
The New York City sex industry isn't glamorous. It's dark, seedy, lurid, and the sex work that the women and, to a lesser degree, men engage in carries the risk of danger, disease, sexual violence, and abduction. There aren't many tools that the sexually exploited demographic can use, but one tool that is at their disposal is condoms. With 50 percent of streetwalkers being African American and 25 percent being Latino, and the average age of prostitute in the United States being between the ages of 12-14 years old; it's ethic teenagers who continue to suffer HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases at a high rate -particularly when police confiscate their condoms, a form harassment that's orchestrated in order to prevent sex workers from turning tricks.
Twenty-two years ago, a child who was nicknamed "Baby Hope," was found dead in the woods on the upper west side of Manhattan. After all this time, police were able to identify "Baby Hope" as Anjelica Castillo, and they were able to find her murderer.
