Charles Lane
@_charleslane
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Reporter for @WNYC & @Gothamist. Very friendly. Contact options: https://t.co/odlmz58LjT
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Joined February 2010
RT @DavidGiambusso: From 'begging' to booming: NYPD's recruitment gains follow drop in standards by @_charleslane .
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Six months ago, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the department was desperate for applicants. Now she's swearing in the largest class since 2016.
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RT @lizkimtweets: Mamdani’s policing ideas have received scrutiny in recent weeks. @_charleslane talked to experts, including one of the….
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The mayoral candidate wants a new department to handle mental health crises and violence prevention, but experts warn it must match the NYPD’s power to work.
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RT @lizkimtweets: The federal investigation into former NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and his twin brother’s work as a consultant in the n….
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The revelation is further evidence that many of the federal investigations that engulfed Mayor Adams’ administration last year are on the back burner.
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RT @philcorso: “People that are a little bit on the edge, feeling like they're living in a society that doesn't feel as safe, that might be….
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Experts say post-pandemic stress and improved reporting may be behind the spike.
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Tisch: Rivera & Feliz “engaged in an intense physical struggle” and Rivera made a “split-second decision when he believed that his fellow officer’s life was at immediate risk.”. Feliz’s family: Tisch will protect cops who racially profile, abuse, and kill.
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The man’s family says justice has been denied again.
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NYPD says the shooting that erupted after Pride on Sunday wasn’t hate related, but instead stemmed from a fight between two rival groups of teens. One bystander was shot along with two teen girls involved in the violence, police say.
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Two teens were shot and one was stabbed near the historic bar after a fight between rival groups, police said.
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Agudelo has regained consciousness, tries to speak but can only shake her head yes and no. She can open her eyes, but can’t control them. “If she does open them, I just see her cry,” her daughter said. “She just always cries.”.
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Stephanie Rodas is fighting to keep her mother alive – and her life together.
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RT @BKriegstein: The daughter of the woman brutally beaten on Randall's Island told @_charleslane her mom had to be resuscitated & is under….
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Police said the woman lay for hours on a bike path before they were notified.
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RT @lizkimtweets: “But a closer look at the numbers reveals a more troubling trend: felony assaults in the subway are up 20% compared to th….
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Felony assaults are up 20% in the subway system this year and more than a third of those target MTA workers or officers, data shows.
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RT @philcorso: NYPD used outdated form to jail person who should have been released, records show via @gothamist @_….
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A copy of the form, obtained by Gothamist, shows the NYPD relied on invalid reasons to jail low-level offenders — despite 2020 reforms designed to curb unnecessary detentions.
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RT @lizkimtweets: “The number of criminal defendants found mentally unfit to stand trial in New York City's state courts has more than doub….
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Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the Independent Rikers Commission report.
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RT @philcorso: .@Gothamist gets results: A week after @_charleslane exposed NYPD's rising use of jail over summonses for low-level offense….
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The Legal Aid Society cites a Gothamist report showing thousands jailed instead of receiving summonses — including two men who died in custody.
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RT @lizkimtweets: Reoccurring theme that could shape the NYC mayoral race: @_charleslane on how perception of crime isn't matching up with….
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Overall complaints surged to a 10-year high in 2024.
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A street in Midtown has spent the last year overrun with squatters and people doing drugs in the halls. “ They just lay there asleep all night,” Burke said. “Cops would come and clean them up sometimes, but then it was so bad they wouldn't even come.”.
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Residents describe a street of lawlessness in one of the priciest zip codes in the world.
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RT @lizkimtweets: Sharpton plans to convene with a group of elected officials and clergy in the coming days “to decide where we will go.”.“….
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The Trump DOJ's order to dismiss the mayor’s case is intensifying arguments that Adams is too compromised to govern.
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RT @BKriegstein: A month after 10 teens were shot outside a Queens nightclub, police have still not made any arrests. @_charleslane breaks….
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Police said it was the third shooting at the Amazura nightclub in about a year.
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DOJ is deleting pages that link to Jan. 6 court documents. This page use to provide documents about a retired NYPD officer sentenced to (pardoned from) 10 years for beating a Capitol police office with a flag pole multiple times. cc: @TomDreisbach
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RT @lizkimtweets: “Chell, the chief of department, praised the change even after previously touting the need for pursuits.” @_charleslane….
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The new policy will clarify that police can only chase people suspected of violent misdemeanors and felonies.
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RT @lizkimtweets: New: @_charleslane and I spoke to 2 former police commissioners & former and current NYPD members to figure out why OT….
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NYPD veterans described a breakdown in the chain of command, where City Hall's involvement fostered dysfunction instead of oversight.
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RT @lizkimtweets: NEW: On the same day that ex-top official Jeffrey Maddrey was suspended amid sexual misconduct allegations involving over….
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The department quietly published a report that provides an unusually detailed breakdown of overtime spending.
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