White Riot
In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.
In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.
Laura Nahmias New York Oct 2021 20min Permalink
Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Dec 2020 25min Permalink
The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?
Kaitlyn Tiffany The Goods May 2019 10min Permalink
Inside New York City’s task force on bias.
Kathy Dobie Harper's Dec 2018 30min Permalink
An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.
Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.
Kendall Taggart, Mike Hayes Buzzfeed Mar 2018 15min Permalink
Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2017 35min Permalink
The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven - stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn - and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min Permalink
How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.
Sarah Ryley ProPublica, New York Daily News Feb 2016 25min Permalink
The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.
Robert Kolker New York Jan 2014 20min Permalink
How New York City built its own CIA.
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman New York Aug 2013 20min Permalink
The battle over stop-and-frisk within the NYPD’s ranks.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York Jun 2013 25min Permalink
During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
Frances Robles, N.R. Kleinfield New York Times May 2013 10min Permalink
An exposé of the New York Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.
David Noriega The New Inquiry Aug 2012 10min Permalink
The toll of being a cop on the most successful force in the country.
Chris Smith New York Apr 2012 25min Permalink
In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min Permalink