NYPD – The Activist History Review

by Editorial Board February 21, 2018 2

February 2018

Broken Windows, Shattered Lives: Mapping Technology and Policing Failures in Giuliani’s New York

While it is not fair to say that technology is bad, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), with its deployment of geospatial software for crime analysis in the 1990s, provides an example of how technology can become dangerous.

by Andreas Meyris November 27, 2017 1

November 2017

Who Remembers Francis Galatis?: Police Brutality, Post-War New York, and a Movement Unrealized

Officer John Brullman’s conviction for violating Francis Galatis’s civil rights was the high water mark of years of activism against police brutality. But it wasn’t really a victory, it was a right hand turn.