Word: nypd
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...Don’t Eat Meat,” PETA has decided that one way they can get people’s attention is by showing pictures of naked women. One particularly fun one shows a nude Charlotte Ross of “NYPD Blue,” holding a rabbit, along with the slogan, “I’d rather show my buns than wear fur.” Or take their un-aired Super Bowl commercial from this year, which featured women essentially having sex with vegetables.Why does PETA want to exploit women for the sake...
Mayor Giuliani often gets credit for the dramatic drop in New York's crime since the 1990s. Does he deserve it? I think so. It wouldn't have happened without Giuliani. He had a commissioner [William Bratton] that changed the culture of the NYPD and made them accountable for the first time in perhaps a decade, but Giuliani was unable to share credit and Bratton was dismissed. Bratton, in my opinion, was not blameless either. He couldn't control himself when it came to publicity...
...write that Sept. 11 has become a "cloak" for the NYPD. Has it been exploiting the tragedy? Yes, I do think that. The fear of terrorism has definitely become a cloak hiding all sorts of problems. Because of the lack of transparency and critical reporting, we do not know what the NYPD is doing in its spying on individuals and on groups that they perceive could have a terrorism connection...
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 vindictive and retaliatory...
...spread of video cameras and the rise of YouTube have not been very good for police officers' public image. The cable news channels love playing footage of police misconduct, including that of an NYPD officer who was prosecuted for shoving a bicycle rider in Times Square. Are officers learning to behave better? I don't know if it's dawned on them yet, but they certainly should be. The NYPD is like a battleship. You don't turn it around very quickly...