CRIME | LAW
New York State’s maximum-security Greenhaven Correctional Facility was originally built to hold German prisoners of war, show here in 2015. Photo credit: JB Nicholas.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘CUFF JUSTICE’ FOR COP KILLER
THROWBACK TO MY FIRST BIG EXCLUSIVE FOR THE NEW YORK POST IN 2007, WHEN I CHASED A PAIR OF ALLEGED COP KILLERS TO THE POCONOS AND CAUGHT COPS CATCHING ONE OF THEM.
'DISRESPECTING THE DON': MEET THE COURT COPS WHO LET DOOR SWING CLOSE ON TRUMP
CHIEFS LET COURTROOM DOOR CLOSE IN THE FACE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING HIS ARRAIGNMENT ON 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING RECORDS
DETAILS EMERGE OF 2 MIGRANT FAMILIES MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED, SEARCH CONTINUES
-ADVOCATES BLAME US PRES. JOE BIDEN, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY CROSSING NORTHERN US BORDER
8 KILLED CROSSING RIVER BY BOAT INTO US FROM CANADA, ILLEGALLY
-2 YEAR-OLD & INFANT AMONG DEAD KILLED CROSSING FREEZING ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY ENTERING THE US FROM CANADA
INSIDE THE PLAN TO PERP WALK DONALD TRUMP
-WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S PERP-WALK WILL LOOK LIKE
-MEET THE JOURNALISTS COVERING THE ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT
-BITTER NEWSPAPER FEUD THAT COULD EFFECT WHETHER THE PUBLIC SEES A PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMP IN HANDCUFFS
‘INNOCENT UNTIL PHOTOGRAPHED’: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERP WALKS
-PICTURE HISTORY OF PERP WALKS IN NEW YORK CITY
-JOURNALISTS’ GUIDE TO COVERING PERP WALKS
AMERICA’S TOP PERP WALKS: HOW WILL DONALD TRUMP MEASURE UP?
DONALD TRUMP IS FACING INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS OBSSESSING OVER HIS ‘PERP WALK.” I PHOTOGRAPHED A LOT OF PERP WALKS AS A PHOTOJOURNALIST. HERE’S SOME OF THE BEST.
CLEAN SLATE: JOBS FOR EX-CONS IS THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
2.3 million New Yorkers completed their criminal sentences but remain shackled to permanent, digitized criminal records that condemn them to a life of sporadic or marginal employment and poverty. Clean Slate legal reform could change that, but New York's Clean Slate bill remains stuck.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: A phone, shouts, a murder and an enduring mystery
My 2009 report for The Villager newspaper about the murder of 33-year-old advertising executive John Reisenbach in the West Village in 1990. The murder remains unsolved.
ANARCHIST CELL HUNTED BY FBI FOR THREE UNSOLVED NYC BOMBINGS INCLUDING TIMES SQUARE
The FBI suspects Anarchists are behind a trio of unsolved New York City bombings that hit the British Consulate in 2005, the Mexican Consulate in 2007 and the US Military's recruitment office in Times Square in 2008. Now the FBI is upping its cash reward for info to a quarter-million dollars.
PICTURE HISTORY OF ‘SPECIAL PURPOSE’ NYPD UNITS TO POLICE PROTESTS & MORE
As the New York City Council weighs whether to order the NYPD to disband its special purpose Strategic Response Group, here’s a history in photographs of past special purpose NYPD units, including those charged with policing protests.
CRAIG NEWMARK WATCH DAY 1
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.
THE PIMP IN THE NEWSROOM
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: August Rebellion: New York’s Forgotten Female Prison Riot
This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is a report I published in the Village Voice in 2016.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: HOW NY PRISON ‘SLAVE LABOR' POWERS A $50 MILLION MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE
“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”
RIKERS’ PLAN TO BAN LETTERS WILL KILL: ONE PRISONER’S STORY
City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.
HOW ANNA WINTOUR MADE A JOBLESS EX-CONVICT A JOURNALIST
FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT
STRANGELOVE IN ALBANY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NY'S WILD & CRAZY PROGRESSIVE BUDGET
ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
INSIDE THE LONGSHOT REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT TO MAKE HECTOR LASALLE NY'S NEXT TOP JUDGE
COURT FIGHT OVER NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP JUDGE PITS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR WITH REPUBLICAN ALLIES AGAINST FELLOW DEMOCRATS
NYPD TO SILENCE POLICE SCANNERS, WON’T COMMIT TO JOURNALIST ACCESS
NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2