"Meet Officer Vaughan Ettienne, the bodybuilder who learned the hard way you shouldn't write like a thug online, or a jury might just suspect you of mistreating a suspect." Ettienne arrested Gary Waters for gun possession. At trial "the defense found things Ettienne said online and tu...

You sort of get the feeling that, only in New York would police waste precious man hours and taxpayer resources arresting men in gay porn shops after allegedly approaching them with a sex-for-cash offer. Or maybe the real truth is that, only in New York would the police commissioner criticize the st...

All those protests and rallies about the NYC gay men falsely arrested for prostitution at the city's adult bookstore have seen results. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News reports on the latest development: Activists who met with Robert Morgenthau report that the district attorney said he would investig...

Everybody say goodbye to NYPD officer Patrick Pogan, famous for shoving a rider off his bike for no good reason—he's been fired. He'd probably make a better Benedictine monk, anyhow. Pogan's classic moment below: [Art of the Scoop: "The rookie cop who body-checked a bike-riding protester in Ti...

Saturday's protest at Mayor Bloomberg's UES home has drawn the attention of the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau which is now looking into the allegations of false arrests of gay men at the city's adult bookstores. The most vocal victim of the campaign, Robert Pinter, was visited at his home by the IA...

Tomorrow at noon there will be a protest at Mayor Bloomberg's Upper East Side home over the NYPD's practice of falsely arresting gay men for prostitution at the city's adult bookstores. Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News has been following this story for months; I first mentioned his coverage here in ...

Could speed have caused yesterday's pedestrian fatality? We'll probably never know. Photo: New York Daily News A new report from Transportation Alternatives confirms what New York pedestrians and cyclists have been forced to accept as a fact of life: A high number of drivers speed through city stree...

Brooklyn Hasidic Street Patrols Profiled Jewish street patrols curb crime – and generate controversy Hasidic groups in New York patrol religious neighborhoods in marked cars, but they occasionally clash with outside groups and even among themselves. By Jordan Heller | Christian Science Monitor | F...

The following is an eyewitness account from a tipster who came upon the aftermath of Monday's driver-pedestrian collision on Carroll Street and Eighth Avenue in Park Slope. The victim, a 57-year-old man, was in critical condition Monday afternoon, and police have no new information as of this writin...

A new resentment is growing between the New York City Police Department and gay men who frequent the city's adult video stores. Increased arrests for prostitution at the video shops have some men crying foul, claiming that how undercover police go about making the arrests is confusing if not il...