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At first, I thought there was something to see here. However, it's not actually a wanted posted.
"Ben Fractenberg and Jeff Mays write that the NYPD has created a 'wanted' poster for a Harlem couple who film cops conducting stop-and-frisks and post the videos on YouTube — branding them 'professional agitators' who portray cops in a bad light and listing their home address. The flyer featuring side-by-side mugshots of Matthew Swaye and Christina Gonzalez and the couple's home address was taped to a podium outside a public hearing room in the 30th Precinct house and warns officers to be on guard against them. The couple has filmed officers stopping and frisking and arresting young people of color in Harlem and around New York City, which they post on Gonzalez's YouTube account. They said their actions are legal. 'There have been times when it's gotten combative. There have been times when they [police officers] have videoed Christina,' says Swaye. 'But if we were breaking the law they would have arrested us.' Swaye was part of a group of advocates including Cornel West who were detained at the 28th Precinct in Harlem in October for protesting the stop-and-frisk policy which Mayor Bloomberg strongly defends. "
At first, I thought there was something to see here. However, it's not actually a wanted posted.
cops shouldn't be so afraid of cameras if they aren't doing anything wrong
This is true. The message I see with the poster is:
"We know you officers do stupid things to the public. Just don't get caught."
I'm for police officers being filmed while doing there jobs. I want the people doing the filming let the video speak for itself. From the moment the cop enters the situation and until the cop leaves. And if they only get half the story don't be posting it on YouTube or anywhere else for that matter. God bless
"blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God"
Props on that couple.
tired of these crooked ass, training day cops harassing people. go out and do some real police work and this couple won't have to do what they're doing.
misleading le.
NYPD, along with CIA/NSA, is now policing thoughts, and at best, along with FBI, framing/stinging their targets
Fact-Check: How the NYPD Overstated Its Counterterrorism Record
In a glowing profile of Commissioner Ray Kelly published in Newsweek last month, for example, journalist Christopher ey wrote of the commissioner's tenure since taking office in 2002: The record "is hard to argue with: at least 14 full-blown terrorist attacks have been prevented or failed on Kelly's watch."
The figure has been cited repeatedly in the media, by New York congressmen, and by Kelly himself. The NYPD itself has published the full list, saying terrorists have "attempted to kill New Yorkers in 14 different plots."
As Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in March: "We have the best police department in the world and I think they show that every single day and we have stopped 14 attacks since 9/11 fortunately without anybody dying."
Is it true?
In a word, no.
A review of the list shows a much more complicated reality — that the 14 figure overstates both the number of serious, developed terrorist plots against New York and exaggerates the NYPD's role in stopping attacks.
The list includes two and perhaps three clear-cut terrorist plots, including a failed attempt to bomb Times Square by a Pakistani-American in 2010 that the NYPD did not stop.
Of the 11 other cases, there are three in which government informants played a significant or dominant role (by, for example, providing money and fakes bombs to future defendants); four cases whose credibility or seriousness has been questioned by law enforcement officials, including episodes in which skeptical federal officials declined to bring charges; and another four cases in which an idea for a plot was abandoned or not pursued beyond discussion.
In addition, the NYPD itself does not appear to have played a major role in breaking up most of the alleged plots on the list. In several cases, it played no role at all.
The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment on the list of 14 alleged plots and how it was assembled. A spokesman for Bloomberg declined to comment.
http://www.propublica.org/article/fa...rrorism-record
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