I am literally begging NYC to elect a mayor next term who is actually smart and who takes the job with the intention (and ability) to fix things.
Begging.
DID HE NOT GOOGLE
@msolurin
BEFORE APPEARING?
This was a massacre.
Cop vs. Trial Attorney… I know who I’m betting on every time (but definitely when that attorney is Olay).
How much 💰 paid to NYPD for this to end up with an offer at arraignment of an ACD (automatic dismissal after 6 months)? Is this what we’re doing,
@NYCMayor
?
So, hey, geniuses who continuously tout “Neely had 44 previous arrests”… finish your sentence. What? He deserved death?
Are you aware our justice system prevents EXACTLY this kind of thinking - for good reason- in court? It’s called propensity evidence. And it’s irrelevant.
An excellent, supremely depressing, eye-opening 🧵 that gives you a glimpse into the kind of corruption I was fired for investigating.
@equalityAlec
is 100% right to credit the excellent reporters helping to shed the light.
THREAD. One of the greatest crime waves in modern New York history is happening right now. You probably haven’t heard about it because police aren’t seriously investigating it and few journalists are covering it. The conspiracy reaches the highest levels of the NYC government.
Something not enough ppl talk about: RIKERS’ ONLY REASON FOR EXISTENCE IS TO ENSURE PPL GET TO COURT.
Since
@NYCMayor
and
@DOCCommish
took over, the rate of getting ppl to court (which was steady even during COVID at over 94%) plummeted to just over 70%.
For the record,
@NYCMayor
, since you always say only the most violent ppl are on Rikers and how “hard” you have to work to get there…
Just walked out of the courtroom with my client; he pled to a violation (not a crime).
He had originally been on Rikers - $15k bail/$40k bond.
Hochul just said that she believes judges need greater ability to send people to jail before trial because otherwise newspapers will write about how people accused of crimes "that shock the conscience" were not locked up.
@harbor_jim
@msolurin
Also come visit and sign our petition for receivership. This way, a responsible, unbiased, intelligent person can have federal power and budget to fix this mess.
🚨 I have never co-signed anything so enthusiastically in my life.
If you want to know ANYTHING about how hard it is to discipline Correction Officers and why (TLDR: it’s the unions & their contracts), this is a MUST READ. 🚨
The jails under Adams have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis & expanded it into an empirical crisis…reporting…is so slipshod, incomplete, inaccurate,&,frequently, intended to deceive & conceal, that the monitor can't even speak confidently anymore about how terrible things are.
We know Rikers under Adams is getting even more violent, but it's also getting even more secretive and opaque, to the point that even the court monitor overseeing it no longer knows *how* much more violent it is anymore:
Last week Charisma White, lifelong NYer w/ experience of homelessness, asked
@NYCMayor
about his CityFHEPS veto
"How about you answer the question of why NYers cant get housed cause you keep vetoing the plan & telling us you going to house us but you never do?"
He had no answer
Not
@NYCMayor
, deflecting from his own inadequacies, asking
@msolurin
, a private citizen who does not get paid by our taxes, whether she went to visit the families of dead Rikers detainees… maybe it’s because SHE’S NOT THE MAYOR?
(But maybe she should be)
Why are the people who normally want “criminals” put away immediately doing mental gymnastics to exonerate Jordan Neely’s killer?
Do they all of a sudden believe in innocent until proven guilty??! How come they don’t want to see THIS killer on Rikers “where he belongs”?
NEW: The correction officer who body-slammed Kalief Browder in a viral video in 2012 has been promoted twice and now has been named to run controversial DOC Emergency Services Unit criticized by monitor as too violent.
"'Inmates are looking out after themselves. Nothing has changed' since Commissioner Louis Molina was appointed to helm the jail by Mayor Eric Adams in January."
Deshawn Carter died by hanging. This can't continue.
This is the consequence of allowing politics-driven sick outs, and unqualified, corrupt DOC leadership to run Rikers. Let me say it once again: blood is on the hands of all those who put their paychecks and bruised egos above human life. The city has failed. Receivership now.
Breaking: Emmanuel Sullivan, just 20 years old, died inside a Rikers Island cell today at around 4 p.m., according to multiple jail sources. He’s the sixth — and youngest — death behind bars this year. Sixteen people perished last year in
@CorrectionNYC
custody.
.
@NYCMayor
responds to sexual assault allegations - “This did not happen. It did not happen. I don't recall ever meeting this person in my time in the police department.”
“While
@NYCMayor
promised to zero in on shootings, his new NYPD gun-crime teams have recovered more fake license plates than firearms while failing to meet legal standards in a third of their stops.”
🤡 show.
HARRY SIEGEL | The NYPD can’t match the bluster of Mayor Adams
Eric Adams' NYPD is reverting to bad old habits, relying on a resource-intensive approach that’s had limited success,
@harrysiegel
writes.
It happened.
😏
All these people who normally blindly support all arrests & prosecutions are suddenly wondering why someone should have to sit in jail when they’ve been charged with killing someone.
It’s AMAZING the hypocrisy. And they’ll go on and on and on… just beautiful.
BREAKING🚨: Joshua Valles, 31, was the third person to die this year on May 27 after being held at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was held in a psych/ PACE unit. On May 19, he complained to a nurse that he had a headache and had been vomiting:
“When footage captures abuse, violence, suffering, and death, the camera is not the problem.”
Powerful statement by families of detainees who died on Rikers Island.
Statements by the families of Erick Tavira, Michael Lopez, and Edgardo Mejias in response to the DOC’s move to unlawfully restrict the oversight board’s access to video from Rikers Island and City jails.
NYC's Correction Dept. record keeping is so poor, officials couldn’t say how long a sprinkler system was shut down, could not protect in an April fire that injured 20, a new report says.
@graham_rayman
A detainee broke a sprinkler head.
NYPD absolutely HATES when prosecutors DP their case. But you know what they hate more? When the prosecutor tells them they have to void their arrest. They know they’ll get sued if that happens.
This (👇) seems to be NYPD’s solution to both. And it’s abhorrent.
. NEW: This lawsuit over the arrest of a young Brooklyn man challenges an NYPD practice of filing administrative charges in summons court after a DA's office has declined to prosecute the same case.
“The Department of Correction is a rogue agency whose leaders relentlessly violate the law, undermine oversight bodies, and do everything in their power to continue operating with impunity and avoiding accountability”
“If there is one thing Mayor Adams has been transparent and consistent about it’s his brazen retaliation against the people in his administration trying to hold his law enforcement officers accountable for wrongdoing to New Yorkers” - Me (1/2)
The naïveté here is INCREDIBLE. Hey,
@CMvpaladino
do you think it was a coincidence that you were taken to a ping pong table instead of, say, intake?
My God at least pretend to be intelligent and don’t post pictures announcing your ignorance.
Let's use our common sense. Whose assessment of conditions at Rikers is more credible: the radical progressives seeking to close Rikers at all costs, who hate our police and are openly trying to abolish the NYPD, whose failed ideology has led to crime, riots, homelessness, and
An autopsy confirmed that a 31 yr old Rikers detainee died of a skull fracture — even after
@DOCCommish
& his General Counsel claimed that he had a heart attack or suffered from “headaches”
Molina told the monitor, “There was no departmental wrongdoing”
Also, side note… Neely was mentally ill and homeless. You’re SURPRISED he’s been arrested? That is exactly what our “solution” is in this city. NYPD arrests its way out of mental health crises. So yeah, he’s got a rap sheet.
Again, not a reason for him to be killed.
@msolurin
I already said this on your IG but this is for your subscribers here, too: in the City’s latest court filing to avoid receivership on Rikers, they blame 💥bail reform 💥for the rise in violence in NYC jails, which is actually insane 🤯
Love ya. Keep it up.
If you disagree with this position, I genuinely would like to know why.
Why do CO’s need to carry guns when carrying them on duty (for 95% of CO jobs) is prohibited?
🤩
@NYCMayor
, lawyers hate you.
Your obtuse message to “get on the field & participate” rather than be spectators… that’s exactly what they’re doing. Bravo to these lawyers, who will hopefully see you in court.
“Ridiculous. The person in charge of the jails can’t plead both ignorance and innocence: We don’t know what happened, but we’re sure we didn’t do it.”
Exactly.
Excellent work as usual by
@harrysiegel
“The failure of Rikers Island staff to get detainees to their medical appointments was an indirect factor in the deaths of nine people in the jails in 2022, the city Board of Correction said Wednesday.”
Blood is on everyone’s hands who have the power to install a federal receiver, but haven’t. Instead, we see puff pieces about how things will turn around if we just set more deadlines, all because of politics and egos. Your failures are killing people. WAKE UP.
Inbox: Dashawn Carter, 25, died on Rikers Island Sunday night. He’s the fourth person detained behind bars to die in custody this year after 16 died in 2021. Not a single report into those deaths has been made public aside for initial reviews by the city Board of Correction.
So, to sum up… this Rikers Officer murdered a child (by shooting him), didn’t call 911 or report it at all, and then went to work… where he TRAINS the Rikers CO’s on how to use their guns.
This is not real life…
DOC averaging 1 death every 2 weeks of 2024.
The day after
@NYCMayor
vetos a bill to end solitary confinement, this detainee died on a bed frame w/out a mattress and was ✨somehow✨ discovered (already dead) just as a
@CorrectionNYC
captain was delivering a mattress.
Here's a
@CorrectionNYC
officer who appears to have bought a light array for the back of his plate to blind the speed cameras. It may be working — he hasn't gotten a ticket since January. So I helped with a little
#criminalmischief
!
When I say that ppl get falsely arrested (& may get sent to Rikers to face torture) I don’t say it out of ignorance.
I say it as someone who, just this morning, represented a client in court whose felony gun arrest was dismissed bc there wasn’t proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
“Our jails are failing absolutely; in contrast, bail reform is working.
Our Governor wants NYers to follow the law and judges to value evidence. I’m asking our Governor to do the same.”
“We have historical levels of violence and death on Rikers,” Rivera told THE CITY. “And it’s critical that the Council leverage its [city] charter-mandated oversight responsibilities to require transparency and accountability at every opportunity.”
DID YOU KNOW that in a month, a judge is supposed to make a decision about whether DOC leaders have improved Rikers? If data shows they haven’t, the judge would bring in a Federal Receiver.
Do you think this is proof enough?
Then sign the petition @ .
THIS IS INSIDE RIKERS. You can see people covered in feces they’ve been left in for 9+ hours, you can see men locked in shower stalls that have been turned to cells. You can see the men carrying an unresponsive man in search of medical attention
@msolurin
Someone who used to work for me at DOC constantly said- “don’t sleep on her smile…!” And… well… the rest is history.
You do your thing. No one can stop a star like you.
This is the second arrest of a
@CorrectionNYC
officer in the last few days.
The last one was a captain brought into my former Investigation Division by the man
@DOCCommish
hired to take my place (see thread for her arrest).
This
@graham_rayman
piece is a must-read.
“I was trying to give people a look at what’s really going on in Rikers and I was hoping that the right people would see it”
Let’s make sure the right ppl see it.
@NYC_BOC
@CivilRights
@NYCCouncil
Receivership.
“The mayor’s preliminary budget proposes a cut of 55 budgeted positions at
@NYC_DOI
”
I am just SHOCKED that
@NYCMayor
wants to cut funding for the oversight agency that investigates corruption at his agencies (inc. NYPD & DOC).
Oh hey, look what
@deray
and I did.
“Federal receivership would offer a modicum of accountability for a facility in crisis, and a means to mitigate decades of bloated bureaucracy, mismanagement and abuse.”
So, this is going around
@CorrectionNYC
, a “tweet” that I never wrote.
Simply amazing.
Try as you have been… you’re not going to ruin my career or life. And you’re not going to scare or bully me into silence. You should know better.
“The toughest part about reforming any organization is changing culture”
Indeed.
And those who think they have a better shot at closing Rikers under
@NYCMayor
’s reign than under a receiver need to really rethink that position.
@CorrectionNYC
prober had coke, heroin in stolen car
“This is exactly why it’s so important to thoroughly vet the ppl you place in an elite unit like Investigations…consider contraband getting into the jails. Investigators are not searched when…
There is no staffing shortage. Rikers has higher staff-to-detainee ratio than any other jail, at almost 2 CO’s to every 1 detainee.
This is just a false COBA narrative. The CO’s just have to come to work, and their supervisors need to learn how to deploy them. That’s it.
Anyway, I don't think the issue at Rikers is "understaffing." The issue is that jails are a death-making institution, and the mayor is doubling the amount of people who cycle through NYC jails each year. When there were more COs per jail detainee, jails were still dangerous.
BREAKING: The top uniformed NYPD cop abused his authority, according to the CCRB, an extremely rare finding of wrongdoing by such a high-ranking police official.
“Dashawn Carter is dead because the City of New York has intentionally turned a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis on Rikers Island,” [attorney David] Kline said. “Tragically, cases like Dashawn Carter’s have become routine.”
The head of “training” (and yes I use that term ✨generously✨) at
@CorrectionNYC
just quietly resigned on the Sunday of a long weekend.
👀
Background: this is the guy behind this debacle:
@graham_rayman
Is there something good that has happened with Rikers in the last year that we all missed..? Because we looked everywhere and couldn’t find it.
Stop worrying about people talking about your failures and start not failing.
@NYCMayor
uses his morning press conference to lash out at
@BilldeBlasio
. "I am so tired of the previous administration and their antics...We’ve been in office for 1 year and I am hearing the previous administration attack us on Rikers….[And] what we did around Covid"
Fun fact: I was only allowed to suspend this Captain for 28 days bc of a long-standing, idiotic handshake deal btwn
@CorrectionNYC
& the CCA (Capt. union)…so she’s been working at DOC +collecting a paycheck this entire time.
Receivership could fix that.
No surprise here, just patiently waiting for Adams to be held accountable for once. Amazing how everyone around him takes the fall. I got one word for all of em: proffer.
.
@ManhattanDA
just indicted six people for an alleged campaign finance fraud scheme that used straw donors to get more matching funds to Eric Adams' 2021 mayoral campaign.
The mayor isn't implicated
STATEMENT from
@iamdarrenmack
in response to another tragic death in DOC custody.
"The fact that Roy Savage was not granted release while his appeal was pending is yet another symbol of the callous cruelty of prosecutors, judges, and our entire criminal legal system."
No one at all needs to hear this, but I’m saying it anyway: I spent $90 to fill my car up with gas today. Yes, I was 8 miles from empty don’t tell my dad.
BREAKING: NYC Board of Correction jails oversight body reported that the city jails are locking people in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in violation of the Board's minimum standards and the HALT Solitary Confinement Law. NYC must end solitary confinement now. Our statement.
This jaw-dropping anecdote of brutality out of Rikers Island was filed in court today by the federal monitor, who has been investigating
@CorrectionNYC
's Emergency Services Unit (ESU). Story to come.
In April, detainees on Rikers Island missed 11,789 medical appointments, a 67% jump compared to December, when a Bronx Supreme Court judge ordered the city to guarantee access to appointments.
One of the last good investigative Captain at
@NYC_DOI
has been kicked out of his job investigating
@CorrectionNYC
by
@DOCCommish
and put into jails alongside those he investigated for… not announcing his presence when entering a jail two weeks ago. 🧵
“I had no expectations for this visit, yet it was worse than I ever imagined,” said councilmember Lincoln Restler.
@NYCCouncil
, please call for a federal receiver to fix this!
“This administration not only doesn't want to close Rikers Island, I don't think it ever had any intention to close Rikers Island,”
@JumaaneWilliams
said.
In case you’re wondering, yes, this is in fact the type of absolute insanity I dealt with when disciplining correction officers.
The man is under indictment for murder and THIS is the statement the union makes?!
Did ANY lawyer read this over before Benny Boscio hit send?!!!
Pleased to provide the following:
“He has run DOC with ego and emotion rather than intellect and ethics… If receivership comes to fruition, his legacy will be he was the commissioner who lost Rikers Island… (1/2 🧵)
I have hours’ worth of comments for this article. For now, I’ll say:
I have, & will continue to, explain to the public: I am not some bitter idiot who “happened” to get fired by
@DOCCommish
. Every SINGLE thing I have said has been proven true. 🧵
“W/out breaching confidentiality or security, Dr. Uhrig publicly supported federal receivership, a judicial takeover that would likely put
@DOCCommish
out of a job…
@TownsendSarena
and Erlich said Molina’s move was designed to send a “chilling message.”
🚨🚨🚨As if the
@NYC_BOC
didn’t already struggle with oversight and holding
@CorrectionNYC
accountable, here’s the newest: DOC has (illegally?) revoked BOC’s access to DOC’s cameras. All of them.
I’m sure nothing fishy about that…
@SDNYnews
@NYCCouncil
Press release:
“Bronx DA Clark stated that nearly 50% of felonies are being dropped due to compliance issues.
This is unacceptable - we must hold *prosecutors* accountable and *force them to follow the* laws!”
Fixed that for ya, Bobby 👍
At a budget hearing, I asked about changes to discovery laws and the impact on our justice system.
Bronx DA Clark stated that nearly 50% of felonies are being dropped due to compliance issues.
This is unacceptable - we must hold criminals accountable and fix burdensome laws!
Today is a special day. It’s been exactly 1 year since
@DOCCommish
freed me from the corruption of DOC
That means I’m now allowed to represent detainees, staff & anyone else in civil rights lawsuits (& disciplinary hearings!) against
@CorrectionNYC
.
Got some lined up already 😎
The people of the Bronx are eternally grateful for the generosity of Dr. Ruth Gottesman, whose donation to a Bronx-based institution, the Einstein College of Medicine, has no precedent in the history of our borough.
🚨🚨make that FOUR more people dead since my interview warning about summer on
#Rikers
.🚨🚨
A detainee at GRVC died this morning.
🚨26 detainees dead on
@NYCMayor
and
@DOCCommish
’s watch.🚨
Full receivership must happen immediately or more will die.
@NYCCouncil
@SDNYnews
“Adams himself acknowledged that city attorneys wouldn’t let him state the names of the 10 people in his report: ‘Trust me, I want to. You know, sometimes I don’t know why we hire lawyers, you know?’”
My bet is he’ll need lots of lawyers in his lifetime.
“The correction officer who first spotted Davis, 44, never mentioned anything about his body hanging or cutting him down in the internal report.”
False/misleading reports by CO’s are punishable by, at minimum 30 days docked pay; at max, termination.
NEW: The Adams administration staffer who was found to have allegedly “acted improperly” amid the federal corruption probe into his campaign fundraising worked on NYC’s International Affairs before abruptly being placed on leave, sources told The Post.
Love to see people saying it’s obvious that a CO can’t grab a detainee’s penis bc I tell ya, in 2018, my team took exactly that case to trial at
@oathnyc
and the judge declined to terminate the
@CorrectionNYC
CO even while finding we proved the case.
8th Cir.: no reasonable corrections officer could believe grasping a pre-trial detainee's penis and squeezing it during a strip search was consistent with due process.
No QI for officer.
Deaths, violence and contraband are all up at unbelievable rates under the inept
@DOCCommish
and
@NYCMayor
. It’s so bad they won’t even issue comments to the press anymore.
@LegalAidNYC
and
@SDNYnews
, more evidence for your receivership motion.
For my last 5 months at DOC, I was asked to try to fix
@CorrectionNYC
’s Intelligence Bureau (CIB), which investigates & rearrests detainees who commit crimes on
#Rikers
.
The new “leaders” of this Division under
@DOCCommish
created this logo for CIB. That’s all.