In 2022, Eric Adams made a statement urging citizens to “send him a photo of an officer on their phone”. It gained minimal traction via twitter, where photos were sent, but no response was met. The purpose of this publication is to bring more awareness which there is no shortness of, to the waves of NYPD we see populating the city and subways after major incidents occur.
They then will vanish after one-to-two days. It is also to bring more awareness to the hate crimes and discrimination in NewYork City that is not prevents or alleviated by NYPD and how they add to the percentage of people who inflict these crimes.
The website https://app.powerbigov.us/ uncovers the types of hate crimes inflicted on different “bias” types”, which correlates to the type of crime done to different racial groups and individuals. This type of information lays out the overall pattern in hate crime types in parallel with the average racial group the NYPD target. These crimes are committed by other individuals, and the NYPD collects the data based on reports filed. With this information, the NYPD could find remedies and solutions to prevent hate crimes, but instead data has shown police officers themselves participate in hate crimes.Starting in 2012, it is reported that Constantin Tsachas, a NYPD police commander instilled a command to his reporting officers that they “write up more black and hispanic people”and issued that white and asian people were considered “soft targets”. This kind of behavior injects a stigma in which all reporting officers must obey, which creating a racist and discriminating environment in which must be met to remain in the police force. In 2015 a lawsuit ignited by police officers took place, suing Tsachas for his actions.
In 2024 alone, Eric Adams will have hired 2,400 new police recruits after announcing there will be no budget cuts.As well in the same year, roughly 2,500 officers were assigned to the NYPD Transit Bureau along with 1,000 extra officers who were deployed into the system in January alone. You could always count on seeing at least one of these officers on their phones in the MTA system while on your commute. They seemingly blend into the environment and can be overlooked as a civilian on their phone. In 2022, Eric Adams made a statement urging citizens to “send him a photo of an officer on their phone”. It gained minimal traction via twitter, where photos were sent, but no response was met. The purpose of this publication is to bring more awareness which there is no shortness of, to the waves of NYPD we see populating the city and subways after major incidents occur, and then vanish after one-to-two days. It is also to bring more awareness to the hate crimes and discrimination in New York City that is not prevents or alleviated byNYPD and how they add to the percentage of people who inflict these crimes.
Photos will continue to be uploaded to this folder and they are free for use. Please feel free to contribute your own photos to add to the collection of visibility into the activities the NPYD takes place in while using their phones while on the clock, being funded by our tax dollars, instead of upholding protection to the civilians of New York
