Plenty of people have used Craigslist to hunt down and entrust perfectly amicable roommates (check), to sell cars that were worth less than the work they needed (check), to buy $2 seats to Mets games (check, Shea days), and to trade a bunch of other
NYPD officers stopped a record "684,330 people":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204795304577221770752633612.html last year for questioning. The tactic, in which around half of those questioned are frisked, is credited by proponents for
NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly issued a five-page memo last week, giving officers permission to created fake Facebook profiles to assist with electronic probes. Officers will be able to register their alias with the department and obtain a laptop…
Friday morning, at about 9 A.M., a hostile ex-employee (or so "it's been tweeted":https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/238996649362456576 by police scanner eavesdroppers) started shooting at random, with at least 10 people injured (it's unclear how m…
It's insane enough on its own, but let's move past the fact that the NYPD had a quasi-secret group "tasked with spying on Muslims":http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/06/06/n-j-lawsuit-targets-nypds-muslim-surveillance/ -- not just individuals, but
Kevin O'Connor's official title is Assistant Commissioner - Juvenile Justice Division, which makes him head of the the NYPD’s "Social Media Unit." (Apparently stalking people on Facebook is associated with juveniles.) O’Connor’s new role "was announc…
If you’re looking to recover any personal effects swept up early Tuesday morning in the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s only one place that may have what you’re looking for. Only it doesn’t have a mar…
