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Community organizer Boubker Mazoz knows these neighborhoods well. For seven years he has been wandering through the city's slums and reaching out to Casablanca's severely disaffected. When he arrives at dilapidated homes where food and money are scarce, his hosts serve him tea and honey-drenched bread. "I...
You say that most of the media is still in a "post-9/11 swoon" and doesn't cover the department with any teeth. It really happened even earlier, with the age of Giuliani and his turnaround of the crime situation. People were so afraid of getting on the wrong...
It's interesting you say that, because on first blush this appears to be a relatively strong period for the NYPD. Crime remains fairly low, and we haven't seen some of the tensions between the department and the public that we saw in the 1990s. This is more style...
You've faced fierce pushback from the department's top brass for your reporting. Officers have been warned to stay away from you, and your picture was even posted at police headquarters. Why do people risk so much to continue talking to you? They had my mug shot up at...
There's a surprising amount of vindictiveness within the department. Just one example: officers are given "highway therapy" - assignments extremely far from their homes - as punishment for angering the wrong people. Is that sort of thing particular to the NYPD? I think it's policing in general. It's very...