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Brooklyn Woman Arrested After Filming Police
Did you know that New York City paid $550 million in lawsuits during the 2011 fiscal year? That is $70 from every resident in the New York area. Taxpayers are...
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Aaron Swartz Internet Activist Dies In Brooklyn
It's quite suspicious that, Co-Founder of Reddit and RSS, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide this weekend in his Brooklyn, NY apartment. It's even more disturbing to hear that he had been...
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Look Who’s Holding The Hose Now
This week New York's Fire Department hit headlines with a civil rights issue that has everyone heated! The FDNY decided to administer a new entrance exam in an effort to...
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Rabbi Takes A Sabbatical To Jail
An influential Brooklyn Rabbi was convicted of using several charitable organizations to launder money for his criminal friends.
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Civil Rights Lawyers Get Settlement for Breach of Their Civil Rights
If there's one subset of the American public on whom corrupt police officers might want to go easy re: civil rights violations, it would probably be civil rights lawyers. Unfortunately, some overzealous Brooklyn cops didn't get the memo.