The New York Police Department (NYPD) said Monday that it will get rid of its anti-crime units and transfer plainclothes officers to other parts of the department.NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said during a press conference that the department will immediately reassign about 600 anti-crime officers to areas such as the detective bureau and neighborhood policing.Shea called…
The commissioner is reassigning about 600 officers from teams that target violent crime. He called it a “seismic shift” in police culture.“This is 21st-century policing,” Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea said.Credit...Demetrius Freeman for The New York TimesJune 15, 2020Updated 9:56 p.m. ETThe New York police commissioner announced on Monday that he was disbanding the Police…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…