Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Police Misconduct

For People of Color, Barriers to Biking Go Far Beyond Infrastructure, Study Shows

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When most cities try to make biking a bigger part of their transportation systems, they use a standard checklist: comfortable biking networks, how-to-ride classes, traffic-law enforcement. The full list is sometimes called the “Five E’s.” A first-of-its-kind survey conducted by Rutgers academics Charles Brown and James Sinclair shows that when you look at biking from the perspective of a Black or Latino American, the Five E’s are missing a lot.

Police Use Illegal License Plate Covers to Break Traffic Laws and Cheat Tolls

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After a month with @NYPDONeill on the job, perp cars still getting through @NYPDnews HQ checks with illegal license plate covers.@OIGNYPD pic.twitter.com/g2tRH0sey3 — placard corruption (@placardabuse) October 17, 2016 To gauge what police think about traffic laws and street safety, it’s instructive to observe how they abuse their authority with their personal vehicles. On Twitter, @placardabuse does yeoman’s work […]

Brutal Jaywalking Arrest in Austin Caught on Video

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Austin police were captured on video beating a group of “jaywalkers” into submission late last Wednesday in an incident that reeks of racial profiling. The arrest was recorded and shared on Facebook by Rolando Ramiro. He told the website Photography is Not a Crime that he and a group of friends were trying to cross a street that had been blocked […]