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Saturday, 12 December 2009 |
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This training is open to community members that would like to learn more about Cop Watch and for those interested in creating Cop Watch teams in their neighborhoods. The training will cover the following - What is Cop Watch - Some basic Know Your Rights information - Do's and Don'ts while on patrol - Street team formation and roles - Equipment needs - An opportunity to role-play scenarios Cop Watch teams have faced in the past Time: 1pm-5pm When: Saturday December 19th Where: 4 West 37th St. 2nd Floor, Between 5th & 6th Ave. Directions: Take N, R, Q, W, B, D, F, V to 34th St. Please RSVP by emailing
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by December 16th Facilitated by Justice Committee, a member organization of Peoples' Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability *** Please note: Although we are in the process of designing a training that includes several different Cop Watch formations, this training is specifically for community members living in urban cities and will focus on community foot patrols. If you live in a rural area or are interested in conducting cop watch during parades and or demonstrations please contact us to request a training that better meets your needs. If your planning to conduct Cop Watch in vehicles you'll still benefit from this training and we can later provide you with a vehicle formation. |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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Important Announcement: Technical Difficulties with PJ Phone Number on Billboards and Outreach Material (212.614.5343) Please be advised that the number on Peoples' Justice outreach materials and Washington Heights, Bushwick and Bed-Stuy "Watch the Cops" Billboards (212.614.5343) has, until recently, not been functioning properly. If you left a message at this number, you might not have heard from us. Your stories and interest are important to us and we sincerely apologize for this technical difficulty! We were recently able to retrieve lost messages, so if you are waiting for a response, you should hear from us within the next week. In the future, you can reach us by leaving a message at 212.614.5343 (it's now working properly) or by emailing
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. Once again, our sincere apologies. We thank youfor your understanding and patience! |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
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By John Del Signore in News on October 5, 2009 5:21 PM The Civilian Complaint Review Board might as well change its name to the Civilian Complaint Review Ignored. Complaints about police misconduct will hit a record high this year, but the CCRB's budget has been slashed. 26 investigators are being cut from the payroll, so half of the cases will be dropped because investigators can't meet the 18-month statute of limitations. It gets worse. Even when they do meet the statute of limitations, nothing much happens. Today the Times puts a human face on the CCRB's shortcomings, interviewing one Joseph Diaz, who filed a complaint back in 2007 accusing a cop of harassment and racial profiling. Diaz was sitting outside his Bronx building when, he says, an officer demanded to see his ID. Diaz, 58, refused, telling the officer, "For 40 years, I live in this building. Did you see me do something? Did you get a call on me? You can't profile me." A week later the cop returned, and when Diaz again refused to show ID, he says the officer "used force" to handcuff and frisk him before ultimately letting him go. Ten months after submitting a formal complaint to the CCRB, the board sent Diaz a letter that said their investigators substantiated that the officer "had abused his authority by stopping and detaining" him. The case was referred to the NYPD for disciplinary action, and they got right on that sent Diaz a letter a year later saying no disciplinary action would be taken. No explanation was given. Diaz fumes, "They waited like two years and nothing happened and it just disappeared. It just disappeared like smoke." Some say Diaz's case is indicative of CCRB impotence and are calling for reform. For instance, in 2005, the Police Department declined to prosecute just 2 percent of the cases that the review board referred to it, but so far this year the department has declined to prosecute 40 percent of the cases. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne maintains that department prosecutors are simply being more selective about what cases to pursue, and the conviction rate at departmental trials had risen to 60 percent from 30 percent in 2004. He tells the Times, "It would be unfair and counterproductive, and a waste of scarce police resources, to move forward with a case which is incapable of being proven in the trial room."
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Sunday, 01 November 2009 |
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From the 10/31/09 New York Times Article by Kareem Fahim http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/nyregion/01officer.html?_r=1 Official ls Detail 5-Hour Gap Between Detective’s D.W.I. Crash and Blood Test One day after the arrest of an off-duty police detective on charges he killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, the authorities provided more details about the five-hour gap between the accident and the time the police were able to obtain a sample of the detective's blood, saying the detective's case was processed more quickly than is normal in such cases. Prosecutors said the detective, Kevin C. Spellman, 42, a 22-year veteran of the force, was driving a Chevrolet Malibu that struck and killed Drana Nikac, 67, as she crossed Kingsbridge Avenue in the Bronx early on Friday morning. He was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated. |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09/23/09 Peoples' Justice Launches Outreach and Ad Campaign to Encourage Cop Watch and Education About New Yorkers' Rights The NYC-wide coalition, Peoples' Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability(PJ), has launched an outreach campaign encouraging community-based organizing to prevent police violence in Washington Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Bushwick. The components of the campaign include billboard advertisements encouraging residents to get involved with Cop Watch, as well as a series of murals aimed at educating community members about their rights when confronted by law enforcement officers. The billboard ads feature a silhouette image of police violence being observed and documented by community-empowered residents armed with video cameras and cellular phones. The intention of the ads is to inform community residents that observing police activity is legal and can help in deterring abuse, as well as provide critical evidence in cases of police brutality. The ads are also meant to generate interest in forming coordinated Cop Watch teams of residents from neighborhoods that see disproportionate levels of police violence. "Cop Watch provides community members with a way to use their legal rights to observe and record police activities and hold law enforcement accountable," says Loyda Colon, coordinator of Peoples' Justice and Director of the Justice Committee (thejusticecommitte.org). "Too often in low-income communities of color, the police think they can act with impunity and abuse their power by perpetrating verbal, physical and sexual violence against community members, without legal cause. Peoples' Justice is asking New Yorkers to stand up and help turn this around by exercising their legal right to organize and watch the police." Peoples' Justice offers Cop Watch and Know Your Rights Trainings to groups interested in starting Cop Watch teams in their neighborhoods. About Peoples' Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability: Peoples' Justice is a coalition of NYC-based grassroots organizations that have joined forces towin community control and police accountability. 
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