Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a historic moment of representation for both Black women and the people of New York City as a whole, Long Island police official and Queens, New York native Keechant Sewell has been named by New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams as the city’s next police commissioner. She will become…
Abuse toward public protesters was rampant all over the U.S. during the summer of 2020. And according to a new report from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the problem appears to have been especially bad in the country’s most populous city, where 39 officers have been accused…
NYPD sued by Attorney General for years of racial abuse and use of excessive force. In what’s been called a “landmark lawsuit,” The New York Times has reported that New York state Attorney General Letitia James is suing the city of New York, the mayor and the NYPD’s leaders, alleging…
Lori Pollock, a former NYPD police chief, retired earlier this month and filed a lawsuit Monday claiming that the Police Department systematically denies women chances to compete for top jobs. Pollock worked in data-driven crime fighting, and the two men who had worked in Pollock’s data-driven crime fighting position previously…
“Collars for dollars” was a common practice among the Transit District 34 officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD). The practice has now resulted in a lawsuit, according to the New York Daily News. Five police officers, now-retired Pierre Maximilien, Sgt. Edwin Raymond and three other officers reportedly filed…
Commotion erupted at a Queens subway station in New York City on Friday as two NYPD officers pinned down and handcuffed a homeless woman. This event is the latest in a string of police overuse of force since more officers have been assigned to subway stations to fight fare evasion…
A New York Police Department (NYPD) report from last quarter shows that out of 291 people who were arrested in the city for marijuana, more than half were Black and only 18 were white. From July to September, Black and Hispanic people made up 90% of low-level marijuana arrests. Out…
New Yorkers hopped the turnstiles at the crowded Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn on Friday night to protest recent incidents of police violence and a crackdown on fare evasion throughout the city. “No NYPD on the MTA!” Protesters did a mass fare evasion & took over a subway station during…
A video of subway riders parting to either side of a subway car as NYPD officers aim a gun at a suspect sitting with his hands up has gone viral, with many saying it was a case of abuse of force. The two-and-a-half-minute video shared Friday shows subway riders in…
Five years after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was accused of killing Eric Garner by using a prohibited chokehold to restrain him, he was fired from the department. But the story continues as Pantaleo filed a wrongful termination lawsuit Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice…
