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Policing the Mind: How the NYPD’s Use of Unlicensed Psychologists Violates...
Thesis: This thought piece examines how the New York City Police Department has systematically circumvented New York State licensing laws to employ unlicensed individuals as “psychologists,” conducting fitness evaluations that directly impact...
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Overtime or Overreach? The Racial Double Standard in NYPD ‘Reform’
Executive Summary For over a decade, the New York City Police Department has operated under a ballooning overtime budget that defied financial logic and internal accountability. Between FY2013 and FY2022, the City’s annual overtime...
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Policy Memorandum: Civilianizing the NYPD—A Roadmap to Fiscal Responsibility and Public...
Executive Summary For over a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has maintained a workforce structure that blurs the line between law enforcement and civil service. Despite repeated fiscal crises, audit warnings, and internal...
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UGESP Unveiled: Why Civil Service Compliance Begins with Valid Selection Procedures
Executive Summary For nearly half a century, the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) have served as the federal government’s benchmark for ensuring fairness and validity in hiring, promotion, and disqualification...
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Policing the Ranks: Why the NYPD’s Purge of Probationary Officers Should...
Executive Summary In a sweeping campaign portrayed as administrative reform, the Adams-Tisch administration has retroactively disqualified dozens of probationary NYPD officers—many of them Black, Latino, Asian, or military reservists—who had...
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The Retaliation Is the RICO: How Donlon’s Complaint Misuses Federal Procedure...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFalse RICO Allegations Against Whistleblower Retired Lieutenant Quathisha Epps Accused of Weaponizing the Courts to Intimidate, Retaliate, and Distract from NYPD Command-Level Misconduct She Helped ExposeNew York,...
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