Charles Lane
Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Reporter at Gothamist
Reporter for @WNYC & @Gothamist. Very friendly. Contact options: https://t.co/odlmz58LjT
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Charles Lane
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has signaled she will be tougher on police officers found guilty of misconduct and has so far followed through, based on her remarks and the penalties imposed. Just five months into her post, Tisch’s approach marks a sharp break from previous commissioners, including Tom Donlon, Edward Caban and Keechant Sewell.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Charles Lane
The city's pipeline to get criminal defendants access to mental health care has become so clogged that defense lawyers have quietly developed backdoor legal maneuvers to get their defendants to the front of the line. But the workarounds, they warned, are a short-term fix that will collapse if more lawyers begin using them and the number of psychiatric beds stays stagnant.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Charles Lane
Defense lawyers are asking a judge to rule on the NYPD's practice of arresting people for low-level crimes rather than issuing tickets, according to court documents. A new motion by the nonprofit Legal Aid Society requests that a judge immediately block the department from arresting people for minor nonviolent offenses that are eligible for summonses under state law. Attorneys argue the practice is intrusive and harmful to New Yorkers and violates their constitutional rights.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Charles Lane
A 22-year-old man from Rockland County was fatally stabbed during a dispute over a bicycle in the Corona section of Queens early Monday, police said. Anderson Archila-Martinez, of Spring Valley, was found just after midnight at the intersection of Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue with a stab wound to the stomach, according to the NYPD. Officers responded to a 911 call at 12:47 a.m., and EMS transported Archila-Martinez to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Catalina Gonella |Charles Lane
Police are searching for a person they said had “sexual contact” with an unconscious and likely dead passenger aboard a subway car early Wednesday morning. The “unresponsive” passenger was found afterward to be deceased and was believed to be dead at the time of the incident, which happened shortly after midnight on a Southbound R train near the Whitehall Street station, according to the NYPD.
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