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    Sep 7

    NEW: Last month, 2 men took their lives soon after being locked up on Rikers Island. Their deaths were not an aberration. We obtained internal numbers showing that self-harm in NYC jails has exploded since the pandemic began:

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  2. 11 hours ago

    3/ Thanks to for taking lead on editing this piece and our previous investigation probing links between The Oath Keepers and the NYPD (and other public agencies across New York):

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  3. 11 hours ago

    2/ Pouring through 500+ NJ names , + I also found dozens of current + former military, corrections, + police personnel. The group has long sought to recruit people with combat experience as part of a long-term strategy to challenge state power

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  4. 11 hours ago

    SCOOP: / has identified ∼20 active law enforcement officers across NJ whose names appear in The Oath Keepers' secret membership logs. Federal prosecutors are currently probing the armed, right-wing group for its links to the Capitol Riot:

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  5. 14 hours ago

    2/ *Case (I’m curious if this was due to protests and pandemic-related changes)

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  6. 14 hours ago

    Interesting to see high rates of NYPD overtime in lower Manhattan—was this a blip in FY 2020 or was this also the cases in prior years of data? CCing

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  7. 14 hours ago

    “Although Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities underestimate overtime costs in some years, none match New York in terms of how consistently and exorbitantly its police department overspends.”

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    Oct 12

    A horrible unrelated fact that has emerged from the Jon Gruden fiasco is that he has a son named "Deuce Gruden" who looks like this

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  9. Oct 11

    NEW: Last week, authorities arrested a Rikers Island correction officer accused of smuggling in a razor for a man incarcerated there. The guard’s arrest comes as NYC jails contend with a spike in stabbings and slashings in the jails’ intake areas:

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    Oct 9

    A Boston Police Department sergeant faces a 10-day suspension after he was caught on video boasting about driving into protestors during last year's demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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    Oct 9

    NEW: The NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association is hiring an independent accounting firm to review its finances in the wake of the federal probe into its embattled leader for allegedly misspending union funds, The Post has learned.

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  12. Oct 8

    “In this and other parts of Queens, water is an unyielding and resourceful enemy; and as many [residents] have come to learn over the years, water always wins.” reports on climate change deaths the city is failing to prevent:

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    Oct 6

    NEW: The has sued the New York City Police Department. For 16 months, the department has ignored more than 100 requests seeking police disciplinary records. We believe the NYPD has "has refused to perform its duty of disclosure under FOIL" following the repeal of 50a.

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  14. Oct 5

    For every investigation or breaking news segment you hear on WNYC + read at Gothamist, there engineers, producers, and clerical staff beyond the byline working hard to make it all happen. Our union is here to make sure they get treated fairly along the way.

    🧵Since we are > 1.5 years into a global pandemic > 1 month into a historic governorship < 2 months away from NYC getting a new mayor We thought we’d look back at some of the work from the people who make , , and
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    Oct 5

    🧵Since we are > 1.5 years into a global pandemic > 1 month into a historic governorship < 2 months away from NYC getting a new mayor We thought we’d look back at some of the work from the people who make , , and

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  16. Oct 5

    Received the following email, presumably in response to and I's Oath Keepers reporting: "The day of the lawless anti-American Marxist punk leftist like you approaches. Not even your little g Baal/Moloch can help you." 😃

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    Oct 5

    BREAKING: The FBI is raiding the offices of the Sergeants Benevolent Association this morning as part of an ongoing investigation, a spokeswoman confirmed to the Daily News.

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    Oct 5

    BREAKING: The Manhattan office of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association was raided by federal agents Tuesday morning, a high-ranking police source said.

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  19. Oct 5

    2/ Original story with here:

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  20. Oct 5

    Hacked Oath Keepers' membership logs associated with the New York Guard staffer refer to his ability to “recruit from NY Army & Air Guard, NY State Guard & USCG [Coast Guard] Auxiliary.”

    NEW: After / identified a high-ranking member of the NY Guard who signed up for The Oath Keepers, pushes to root out extremists in military + police ranks:
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  21. Oct 5

    NEW: After / identified a high-ranking member of the NY Guard who signed up for The Oath Keepers, pushes to root out extremists in military + police ranks:

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