FUNDING A NATIONAL REGISTRY OF BAD COPS
Bloomberg checks in with Tribecan Michael Novogratz, who over the years has put about $35 million towards causes that fight racism and support criminal justice issues, including as chair of the Bail Project. Now he’s calling for a national registry of bad cops, and urging people to support the Center for Policing Equity run by Phillip Atiba Goff. From Bloomberg: “The group sets up dashboards for police departments and works with police chiefs to show how their officers behave and how the departments function, and then offer suggestions to make them more efficient and less biased. Novogratz, who describes himself as center left, also supports setting up a national registry of bad cops. That way an officer fired for excessive roughness can’t get a job in another state. ‘One strike, you’re out,”’ he said. ‘It would be symbolic — but also practical.'”
A TRAIN CARS SEPARATE AT CHAMBERS
Passengers had to be evacuated out of the Chambers Street A/C station last night after the train split apart (!!!) between the sixth and seventh car, Patch reports. “An entire $600 million fleet of new R179 trains were pulled out of service as an investigation was launched into why it broke apart. It’s the same fleet that was sidelined in January after a set of doors on a moving C train opened on Christmas Eve — an incident that repeated about 10 days later. That train was deemed one of about 300 “lemons” that the MTA bought from manufacturer Bombardier, according Comptroller Scott Stringer.”
METS HURLER’S UNPAID RENT?
Crain’s reports that the Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard — aka Thor — is being sued for nonpayment on his rent for the penthouse at 116 Hudson (at N. Moore). He never moved in, which is a shame since that would be an awesome sighting.
LOCAL STREET ARTIST’S MURALS STOLEN
ESPO, whose work is on Pier 40 and who’s studio is here, has added his touch to some of the boarded up storefronts in Soho, and now “collectors” are stealing them. Not sure how you then sell one of those… –The Post
Without fixing the union contracts that protect the few rouge police within their departments, all the monitoring is a waste of time. The PBA, and other local unions, negotiate that police officer’s conduct be kept within the department.