The NYPD has embraced Facebook and Twitter to investigate alleged gangs — but will the evidence hold up in court? ⧸ Full Story

New York set to get neighborhood-level maps of incidents reported to police — though many details, including the level of NYPD cooperation, remain to be determined ⧸ Full Story

The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long? ⧸ Full Story

In which we navigate the multiple databases used by New York City courts and update our summonses map to include data from community courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan ⧸ Full Story

As a record number of lawsuits against the city's police move into litigation, the price tag is $150 million a year and growing. Where will it stop? ⧸ Full Story

Councilmembers want New York City to track those convicted of cruelty ⧸ Full Story

The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed. ⧸ Full Story

Is the NYPD violating New Yorkers civil rights one summons at a time? What the geography of 350,000 pink slips in New York City reveals. ⧸ Full Story

Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City's 50 most frequent locations for police stops ⧸ Full Story

Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to a lawsuit condemning the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices. Her decision comes in a 2008 suit filed by four men claiming their fourth amendment constitutional rights were compromised by the NYPD, and allows thousands more plaintiffs to take part in the legal challenge. The… ⧸ Full Story

The NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy is failing in the very area it was designed to target — gun control — according to new analysis released by the New York Civil Liberties Union today.  The detailed interrogation of the police department’s own stop-and-frisk records indicates a record 685,724 people were stopped and frisked by… ⧸ Full Story

Many worshipers say they're resigned to the scrutiny they receive as part of anti-terrorism policing ⧸ Full Story

Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police ⧸ Full Story

What rules govern the NYPD when it operates outside of New York City? In the past few days, the Associated Press has published two reports detailing aggressive surveillance of Muslims by the New York Police Department. One of the most notable aspects of this surveillance is where it took place: on college campuses across the… ⧸ Full Story

Only 13 percent of the 4.3 million stops made by city police in the last decade have led to an arrest or summons ⧸ Full Story

Authors John Eterno and Eli Silverman scrutinize COMPSTAT and raise sharp questions about its accuracy ⧸ Full Story

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and his spokesman Paul Browne are getting slammed for admitting that Kelly had indeed been interviewed for a controversial documentary on radical Islam, The Third Jihad, shown to almost 1,500 police officers over a several-month period and and running on what an internal report described as “a continuous loop.” This, after… ⧸ Full Story

What can riders get arrested for doing on subways? Did you know that what most consider sloppy train manners can get you in trouble with the New York Police Department? We’re talking about improper seating on a subway — things like propping your feet up and lying across seats. According to a recent New York… ⧸ Full Story

What are the leading reasons for 911 calls? The Bloomberg administration announced yesterday that 911 dispatchers handling calls for police, fire, and emergency medical services have be integrated into a single force – using the same technology and working on the same building floor – for the first time in history. The upgraded system, which is costing… ⧸ Full Story

At an event to resolve unpaid summonses, Brooklyn residents attest to the toll of police interrogations ⧸ Full Story