A longtime police monitor (and booster) 'welcomes' more oversight

[hrmjustin]

By Azi Paybarah

In the last 12 years, one police commissioner, Ray Kelly, has overseen the New York Police Department.

And during that time, one lawmaker has been charged with keeping an eye on the department: City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

“I am proud of the fact that on my watch, crime went down and we’ve been safe from terrorists, all the while, I believe, respecting civil rights,” Vallone said in a recent interview with Capital.

To hear Vallone tell it, the city may have just lived through its good old days.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/11/8535776/longtime-police-monitor-and-booster-welcomes-more-oversight?top-featured-2

[FreakinDJ]

1. He must be so proud

NYPD officer shot unarmed National Guardsman during traffic stop, witness says



(CBS) NEW YORK - A passenger said an unarmed Army National Guardsman driving on a New York City highway was fatally shot by police early Thursday, even though both his hands were on the wheel when the officers approached him, CBS New York reports.

Noel Polanco, 22, was shot around 5:15 a.m. on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens. His passenger, Diane Deferrari, said a bullet narrowly missed her when it fatally struck Polanco in the abdomen.

"The shot came right past my face and shot him," DeFerrari told CBS New York.




Deferrari said uniformed police officers pointed their guns through her window. The other passenger in the car, off-duty police officer Vanessa Rodriguez, was asleep in the back seat. She was awakened by the gunshot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57526928-504083/nypd-officer-shot-unarmed-national-guardsman-during-traffic-stop-witness-says/

[hrmjustin]

2. I remember when that happened.

Never was justice for that family.

[FreakinDJ]

3. there never is