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NYC Crime Crisis: Adams Administration’s 23-Minute Social Media Spin vs. NYPD Statistics

In an era where public safety messaging often travels at the speed of social media, January 22, 2025, marked a revealing moment in New York City politics. Over just 23 minutes, the city’s top law enforcement officials executed a coordinated media campaign that masterfully demonstrated how selective statistics can paint a misleading picture of public safety. The carefully orchestrated performance […]

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Sex, Lies, and Overtime: Inside the NYPD’s Financial Black Box

The NYPD’s overtime system operates like a financial shell game, where millions of dollars can disappear into bureaucratic black holes with almost no accountability. This systemic dysfunction came into sharp focus with a recent scandal involving NYPD Lieutenant Quathisha Epps, who accused Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of demanding sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities. Epps alleged that Maddrey

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NYPD Overtime Scandal: Failure of Legislative Oversight Laid Bare

The explosive allegations of sex-for-overtime rocking the NYPD have exposed not one scandal, but two. The first involves alleged sexual coercion for overtime pay. The second – perhaps even more disturbing – is how City Council leadership failed to spot glaring red flags in their own budget documents that suggested systemic overtime abuse. Under Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chair

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Exposed: NYPD’s 2024 Crime Statistics Manipulation

New York City faces its worst violent crime rate in over two decades, with 48,098 violent crimes reported in 2024 – levels not seen since 2002. Yet on January 6, 2025, NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch presented a different story, touting “a nearly 3% reduction in overall index crime” and claiming 3,662 fewer incidents meant “thousands of fewer victims of

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How New York’s Crime Statistics Became a Political Fairy Tale

How NYC’s Crime Statistics Lost All Meaning in 2023 In 2023, New York City’s crime reporting system experienced an unprecedented breakdown that undermined two decades of statistical reliability. When the state finally released its delayed 2023 crime statistics in November 2024, the numbers revealed more than mathematical discrepancies – they exposed a systematic manipulation of public safety data by officials

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Manhattan’s Community Boards: A $382,716 Black Hole

How Manhattan’s Community Boards Shield Public Spending from View Your tax dollars are disappearing into a black hole of secrecy in Manhattan. Since 2021, twelve community boards have hidden $382,716 in public spending behind a simple yet troubling label: “N/A (Privacy/Security).” They’ve marked both payee names and purposes as “N/A,” turning public expenses into private mysteries. This vanishing act happens

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NYC: Where Transparency Takes a Vacation

When Transparency Takes a Vacation Amid the swaying palms of Puerto Rico, New York City officials and their growing entourages continue their annual ritual of luxury networking at taxpayer expense. The SOMOS conference, nominally about Hispanic legislative priorities, has devolved into New York’s premier Caribbean junket – where politicians and their staffs strike poolside deals while constituents back home struggle

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VP Debate Fact Check: Walz’s Misleading Claims and Adams’ Data Suppression

In the recent vice presidential debate, Tim Walz made a troublingly disingenuous claim about gun violence research, stating, “And we can start to get data, but here’s the problem, if we really want to solve this, we’ve got folks that won’t allow research to even be done on gun violence.” (57:49 into debate video) Walz’s statement isn’t true and seems

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NYC Politicians Misuse Crime and Incarceration Statistics to Further Their Agendas

Recently, the New York City Council overwhelmingly voted (42-9) to overturn Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of two bills: Intro 586-A, a bill that requires the NYC Police Department (NYPD) to document all investigative encounters, and Intro 549-A, a bill to ban solitary confinement in city jails. Supporters of both bills leveled charges of institutionalized racism at the Police Department and

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