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The Historical Society of the New York Courts Oral
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK COURTS ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Hon. Milton Mollen Found on exterior entrance to New York Court of Appeals THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK COURTS 140 Grand Street, Suite 701 White Plains, New York 10601 914.824.5717 [email protected] www.nycourts.gov/history ORAL HISTORY Subject: Hon. Milton Mollen Arbitrator and Mediator, JAMS Herrick, Feinstein LLP New York State An Interview Conducted by: Hon. Steven Fisher Date of Interview: July 21, 2009 Location of interview: OCA Studio 25 Beaver Street, New York City, New York Copyright © 2009 The Historical Society of the New York Courts In 2005, The Historical Society of the New York Courts (the Society) established an oral history program to document the recollections of retired Judges of the New York State Court of Appeals (New York’s highest court), retired judges and justices from other courts in the State, and prominent New York lawyers (Subjects). Starting in 2009, all interviews were videotaped. Interviews prior to that time were either audio or video taped. Interviews were conducted by informed interviewers, familiar with both the Subject and New York jurisprudence (Interviewers). The transcripts of the record are reviewed by Subjects and Interviewers for clarity and accuracy, corrected, and deposited in the Society’s archives. An oral history transcript is not intended to present the complete, verified description of events. It is rather a spoken personal account by a Subject given in response to questions. It is intended to transmit the Subject’s thoughts, perceptions, and reflections. It is unique and irreplaceable. -
Collected Essays
CONDUCT AND ETHICS ESSAYS By Julius Wachtel As originally published in POLICEISSUES.ORG (c) 2007-2021 Julius Wachtel Permission to reproduce in part or in whole granted for non-commercial purposes only POLICEISSUES.ORG Posted 3/7/10 A COP’S DILEMMA When duty and self-interest collide, ethics can fly out the window By Julius Wachtel, (c) 2010 Protecting public officials may not be the primary mission of the New York State Police, but there’s no denying that the Executive Services Detail, a unit of about 200 officers who guard the Governor and his family, is the most prestigious assignment to which Troopers can aspire. With David Paterson’s picture prominently displayed on the department homepage (a photo of recently-departed Superintendent Harry Corbitt is buried two layers down) there’s little doubt as to who’s really in charge. And that may be part of the problem. On Halloween evening, October 31, 2009, New York City cops were summoned to a Bronx apartment where an anguished woman told them that David Johnson, a man with whom she had been living, “had choked her, stripped her of much of her clothing, smashed her against a mirrored dresser and taken two telephones from her to prevent her from calling for help.” Johnson, who is six-foot seven, was gone, and officers filed a misdemeanor report. Two days later, while seeking a restraining order in family court, the victim told a referee that her assailant could probably be found at the Governor’s mansion. You see, David Johnson was until days ago the Governor’s top aide. -
1 Crime Control, Civil Liberties, and Policy Implementation: an Analysis
Crime Control, Civil Liberties, and Policy Implementation: An Analysis of the New York City Police Department’s Stop and Frisk Program 1994-2013 A Senior Thesis by Colin Lubelczyk Submitted to the Department of Political Science, Haverford College April 23, 2014 Professor Steve McGovern, Advisor 1 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION: 3 II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: TERRY VS. OHIO AND ITS AFTERMATH 6 III. REVIEW OF LITERATURE: 14 IV. RESEARCH DESIGN: 38 V. SETTING THE STAGE: NEW YORK CITY PRE GIULIANI 47 VI. CASE STUDY 1: THE GIULIANI ERA, 1994-2001 51 VII. CASE STUDY: THE BLOOMBERG ERA, 2002-2013 73 VIII. ANALYSIS OF VARIABLES: DEPARTMENTAL LEADERSHIP, PRECINCT COMMAND, AND TRAINING 88 IX: CONCLUSION: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND NEXT STEPS FOR THE NYPD 107 2 Acknowledgments I am extremely grateful for the ongoing help and support of several individuals without whom this project would not have been possible. First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Steve McGovern, for all of the advice and guidance over the course of this year. Next, to my parents, Steve Lubelczyk and Alice O’Connor, who fostered my intellectual curiosity and suffered thoroughly while editing my shoddy high-school writing. Finally, I would like to thank the experts who were generous enough to share their insider knowledge via personal interviews, especially Rocco Parascandola, Clif Ader, Len Levitt, and Robert Gangi. Without these individuals, I never would have penetrated the NYPD’s “Blue Wall of Silence.” 3 I. Introduction: Certain objectives and obligations of the United States government are often times at odds and thus require the careful balancing of competing interests. -
Oral History Interview with Louis R
Oral History Interview with Louis R. Anemone Interviewed by Jeffrey A. Kroessler and Larry Sullivan January 12, 2012 Jeffrey A. Kroessler January 19, 2012 Justice in New York: An Oral History No. 14 2 Justice in New York: An Oral History Preface President Jeremy Travis initiated Justice in New York: An Oral History in 2006. Based in the Lloyd Sealy Library, the project was made possible through a generous grant from Jules B. Kroll, President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. The goal was to interview criminal justice leaders – district attorneys, police commissioners and members of the department, elected officials, defense attorneys, and advocates, individuals concerned with the workings of the system. Each interview is recorded on cassette tapes and/or a digital recorder. The original is deposited in Special Collections in the library. Each transcript is bound and the volume is cataloged and placed on the shelves. A digital copy is available through the library’s web site, as are selected audio clips from the interviews (http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/). Oral history is a problematic endeavor. The interview is only as good as the questions asked and the willingness of the interview subject to be open and honest. Some remain guarded, others become expansive. Sometimes memory fails, and details, names and dates are confused. Some individuals have their own set story, and an oral history will add little that is new or especially insightful. Other individuals use the interview as an opportunity to sum up a career; on occasion that means gliding over unpleasant or difficult details. -
What a Plaintiff
Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 28 | Number 2 Article 3 2000 Extra! Extra! Read All About It: What A Plaintiff "Knows Or Should Know" Based On Officials' Statements And Media Coverage of Police Misconduct For Notice of a § 1983 Municipal Liability Claim Jenny Rivera City University of New York School of Law at Queens College Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Part of the Torts Commons Recommended Citation Jenny Rivera, Extra! Extra! Read All About It: What A Plaintiff "Knows Or Should Know" Based On Officials' Statements And Media Coverage of Police Misconduct For Notice of a § 1983 Municipal Liability Claim, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 505 (2000). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol28/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT: WHAT A PLAINTIFF "KNOWS OR SHOULD KNOW" BASED ON OFFICIALS' STATEMENTS AND MEDIA COVERAGE OF POLICE MISCONDUCT FOR NOTICE OF A § 1983 MUNICIPAL LIABILITY CLAIM Jenny Rivera* Although the plaintiffs § 1983 claim is a strong one . .. [the plaintiffs] failure to file within the limitations period cannot be excused. The [plaintiffs] cause of action is therefore dismissed as to the municipal defendants.1 [W]hen commencing a [police misconduct suit] neither the plain- tiff nor [the plaintiffs] attorney is likely to know much about the relevant internal operations of the police department, nor about the disciplinaryhistory and record of the particularpolice officers involved. -
ALTERNATIVE NORTH AMERICAS What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other
ALTERNATIVE NORTH AMERICAS What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other David T. Jones ALTERNATIVE NORTH AMERICAS Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20004 Copyright © 2014 by David T. Jones All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of author’s rights. Published online. ISBN: 978-1-938027-36-9 DEDICATION Once more for Teresa The be and end of it all A Journey of Ten Thousand Years Begins with a Single Day (Forever Tandem) TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 Borders—Open Borders and Closing Threats .......................................... 12 Chapter 2 Unsettled Boundaries—That Not Yet Settled Border ................................ 24 Chapter 3 Arctic Sovereignty—Arctic Antics ............................................................. 45 Chapter 4 Immigrants and Refugees .........................................................................54 Chapter 5 Crime and (Lack of) Punishment .............................................................. 78 Chapter 6 Human Rights and Wrongs .................................................................... 102 Chapter 7 Language and Discord .......................................................................... -
R1aorma&Fndsup
SRoutledge Police Practice and Research, 2002, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 7-19 R1aorma&Fndsup CORRUPTION AND THE BLUE CODE OF SILENCE JEROME H. SKOLNICK NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA (Received June 2001; In finalform September 2001) This paper examines the 'Blue Code of Silence' and its contribution to police corruption. After offering evidence for the existence of such a code, the paper locates the origins of the code in the work and culture of policing. The paper also examines cases, commission reports and an original case study to understand how the code is reinforced. Based on 'participant observation' research of the New York County Prosecutor's Official Corruption Unit, the paper also illustrates how the code impedes investigations by police overseers. Finally, the paper discusses various measures to address the code of silence. Keywords: Police corruption; Code of silence; Police culture Like criminal law itself, the 'Blue Code of Silence' is a normative injunction, but an unwritten one. Sometimes called a blue wall, curtain, or cocoon of silence, it is embedded in police subculture. At its best, the feelings of loyalty and brotherhood sustaining the 'Code of Silence' may facilitate policing and protect police against genuine threats to safety and well-being (Kleinig, 2000: 7). Yet the same code of loyalty and brotherhood can, as a 'Code of Silence' (hereafter Code), sustain an oppositional criminal subculture protecting the interests of police who violate the criminal law. Such an unrecorded code has been noted as a feature of policing across continents, wherever scholars or commissions of inquiry have studied police corruption. -
What a Plaintiff 'Knows Or Should Know' Based on Officials' Statements and Media Vco Erage of Police Misconduct for Notice of a § 1983 Municipal Liability Claim
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research CUNY School of Law 2000 Extra! Extra! Read All About It: What a Plaintiff 'Knows Or Should Know' Based On Officials' Statements and Media vCo erage of Police Misconduct for Notice of a § 1983 Municipal Liability Claim Jenny Rivera CUNY School of Law How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cl_pubs/269 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT: WHAT A PLAINTIFF "KNOWS OR SHOULD KNOW" BASED ON OFFICIALS' STATEMENTS AND MEDIA COVERAGE OF POLICE MISCONDUCT FOR NOTICE OF A § 1983 MUNICIPAL LIABILITY CLAIM Jenny Rivera* Although the plaintiffs § 1983 claim is a strong one . .. [the plaintiffs] failure to file within the limitations period cannot be excused. The [plaintiffs] cause of action is therefore dismissed as to the municipal defendants.1 [W]hen commencing a [police misconduct suit] neither the plain- tiff nor [the plaintiffs] attorney is likely to know much about the relevant internal operations of the police department, nor about the disciplinaryhistory and record of the particularpolice officers involved. In view of the strong policies favoring suits protecting the constitutional rights of citizens ... it would be inappropriate to requireplaintiffs and their attorneys before commencing suit to obtain the detailed information needed to prove a pattern of su- pervisory misconduct .... Recent revelations of police misconduct throughout the country have sparked renewed demands for improved police accountability * Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law at Queens College. -
Is Effective Law Enforcement Inconsistent with Good Police-Community Relations? William J
Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 28 | Number 3 Article 6 2000 Law and Disorder: Is Effective Law Enforcement Inconsistent With Good Police-Community Relations? William J. Bratton Andrew G. Celli Paul Chevigny New York University Law School Johnnie L. Cochran Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Part of the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons Recommended Citation William J. Bratton, Andrew G. Celli, Paul Chevigny, and Johnnie L. Cochran, Law and Disorder: Is Effective Law Enforcement Inconsistent With Good Police-Community Relations?, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 363 (2001). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol28/iss3/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAW AND DISORDER: IS EFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT INCONSISTENT WITH GOOD POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS? Moderator Ronald Tabak Special Counsel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Panelists William J. Bratton Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. former Commissioner Partner New York City Police Department Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Sistrunk, P. C. Andrew G. Celli Jr. Loretta E. Lynch Chief, Civil Rights Bureau United States Attorney for the Office of the New York State Eastern District of New York Attorney General Paul Chevigny Michael Meyers Professor Executive Director New York University Law School New York Civil Rights Coalition MR. TABAK: Some of you may be wondering why we called this program Law and Disorder? Is Effective Law Enforcement Inconsistent with Good Police-Community Relations? Some may wonder, "How could the answer to that question be yes?" Yet many people in this city and elsewhere in the country have been lead to believe that the answer is yes-that you cannot reduce serious crime without also exacerbating police-community relations.