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NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) praised law-enforcement authorities for preventing a major terrorist attack yesterday aimed at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The FBI and New York Police Department had been following Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, for months. The authorities arrested him yesterday when attempting to detonate what he believed to be a...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Twenty-one people have been arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD) for selling prescription painkillers over the Internet, law enforcement officials announced on Thursday. The arrests come after an 11 month investigation known as "Operation Dot Com," in which undercover NYPD officers responded to Craigslist advertisements offering the drugs, according to New York Magazine reporter Joe Coscarelli. Officers made a...
New York personal injury lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm expresses concern over the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System, a soon to be launched program designed to track both criminals and potential terrorists. This program combines several streams of information, including citywide video surveillance and law enforcement databases New York, NY (PRWEB) August 04, 2012 The New York Police Department is close to launching the “Domain Awareness System,” according to the Associated...
PHILADELPHIA, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the AW119 helicopter fleet operated by the New York Police Department is the worldwide law enforcement fleet leader, having achieved over 20,000 flying hours on the fleet and more than 6,000 on their fleet leader. New York Police Department is among the largest US law enforcement operators with four AW119 helicopters in service. New York Police Department's first AW119...
NEW YORK, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DNAinfo.com New York, NYC's leading neighborhood news source, congratulates Murray Weiss for winning a 2012 Society of the Silurians "Excellence in Journalism" award for his investigative reporting on DNAinfo.com of the New York Police Department's (NYPD) ticket fixing scandal. The DNAinfo.com New York team was also recognized with a merit award for its breaking news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Evacuation from Zuccotti Park last fall....
NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal judge today granted class certification in a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policies and practices as unconstitutional and racially discriminatory in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The ruling in Floyd v. City of New York, et al. (S.D.N.Y.) allows anyone who was unlawfully stopped and frisked since January 2005 to be a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The plaintiffs are...
Counterterrorism experts from the FBI and the New York Police Department (NYPD) are investigating an image posted on multiple Arabic-language websites which appears to suggest that New York may once again be the target of a terrorist attack. According to Jana Winter of FoxNews.com, the "mysterious" image resembles a Hollywood-style movie poster and includes the phrase, "Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York." Law enforcement officials are concerned enough about the graphic that they have...
Muslim civil rights group asks White House to address 'blatant' religious profiling WASHINGTON, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today again called on the Obama administration to address new revelations that the New York Police Department (NYPD) kept secret files on businesses solely because they were owned by Muslims. CAIR urged the president to speak out against the NYPD's blatant use of religious profiling. According...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Obama administration to investigate the reported use of White House funds for the New York Police Department's (NYPD) controversial campaign of spying on Muslims without warrants or evidence of wrongdoing. According to The Associated Press (AP): "Millions of dollars in White House money has helped pay for New York Police Department programs that put entire...
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is asking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials to resist efforts by the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to dictate the nature and content of anti-terror training for New York Police Department personnel The request by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of...
