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State bail reform and coronavirus-related releases from city jails are not driving this year’s surge in shootings, the NYPD’s own data shows — despite the insistence of department brass to the contrary.
The three cops at the center of the NYPD milkshake “poisoning” scandal never even got sick, and there wasn’t the slightest whiff of criminality from the get-go — but that didn’t stop gung-ho brass from rolling out the crime scene tape and unions from dishing out empty conspiracy theories, The Post has learned.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has admonished politicians and the public for trafficking in “rumors” while criticizing the NYPD’s response to city unrest — but hasn’t held himself to the same standard, a Post investigation found.
Rogue NYPD officers are using a sketchy facial recognition software on their personal phones that the department’s own facial recognition unit doesn’t want to touch because of concerns about security and potential for abuse, The Post has learned.
City Hall’s official tally of NYPD lawsuit settlements is woefully incomplete — and fails to account for $22 million in deals struck during the first three months of this year alone, The Post has learned.
Amid an epidemic of officer suicides, the NYPD’s recent calls for stressed-out cops to “Please reach out” for help is nothing more than “smoke and mirrors,” according to an officer who said he was publicly stripped of his gun and reassigned the day after revealing he was on antidepressants.
Behind every baton blow and broken bone, every compliance hold and gunshot wound, there are piles and piles of paper. Somebody had to be keeping tabs, right?...
The borough police officer charged with assaulting a teenager is responsible for more than one-fifth of all arrests involving force recorded by the department...
Craig McCarthy utilizes traditional reporting skills while tapping digital media to break stories on tight deadlines. Craig currently works as a reporter in the police bureau at the New York Post.
At his previous job, at The Star-Ledger, Craig led the data collection through hundreds of records requests and coordinated input while co-leading the reporting effort for NJ Advance Media's 16-month, award-winning project, The Force Report. His work on the project was supported by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice through its 2018 Harry Frank Guggenheim reporting fellowship.
Craig split his childhood between New Hampshire, where he was born in Derry, N.H., and New Jersey.
He stayed in North Jersey after graduating from Montclair State University in 2012. He has worked in both print and digital operations while getting a Master's degree in Communication and Media from Rutgers, where he focused in digital media.
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