The NYPD’s Psychological Exam Is a Legal and Scientific Fiction — and The New York Times Just Helped Perpetuate It
When The New York Times published its November 11, 2025 article, “How Do You Judge Whether a Police Officer Is […]
The NYPD Is Not a Political Party: Why Policing Must Remain Apolitical in a Democratic City
I. The Manufactured Drama of Political Policing Today, The New York Times published a feature that perfectly captured the city’s
A Transition Moment for New York: Why Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Must Not Retain Jessica S. Tisch — and What the Yates Report Reveals About NYPD’s Structural Commitment to Bad-Faith Policing
I. Introduction: A New Mayor, an Old Architecture Every incoming mayor inherits two things from their predecessors: a budget and
Selective Ethics and Structural Retaliation: How New York City Weaponizes Chapter 68 to Silence Integrity and Shield Corruption
I. Introduction: When Ethics Become a Political Weapon Ethics laws are most dangerous not when they are absent, but when
Transparency and the Rule of Law: The Department’s Misapplication of Legal Standards in NYPD v. Detective Specialist Jaenice Smith
In the interest of transparency and public accountability, The Sanders Firm, P.C. is releasing the complete record of the Department
The Lab, the Lie, and the Law: Civil-Rights Filing Alleges NYPD’s 30-Year Use of Unapproved Hair Tests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight: Formal Investigatory Referral Exposes Decades of Unlawful Hair-Testing by NYPD and
When Marketing Masquerades as Science: A Legal Analysis of Psychemedics’ 2019 BioSpace Statement
Executive Summary This analysis exposes how Psychemedics Corporation transformed unvalidated science into accepted governmental policy through decades of marketing
The Sanders Firm, P.C. Investigates Decades of Unlawful NYPD Drug-Testing Practices Involving Psychemedics Corporation
PUBLIC NOTICE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS New York, NY — October 30, 2025 — New York Civil-rights attorney Eric
Hair Testing Litigation Center
Breaking the Silence: Exposing an Unlawful Testing Regime For more than three decades, public agencies and private employers have relied