Ben Feuerherd
@benfeuerherd
Covering public safety and policing @wnyc @gothamist. Tips: [email protected]
Conspicuously missing from this list of law enforcement unions who will endorse Adams today: the Police Benevolent Association
Manhattan judge skeptical of NYPD attempt to fire 30 officers without letting them appeal —> gothamist.com/news/manhattan…
Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.
Inside the well-funded, likely doomed plan to stop Zohran Mamdani. A lot of donors are not behaving rationally, one operative said. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
City attorneys set to face off against the PBA in court next week over planned firings of 31 officers —> gothamist.com/news/nypd-unio…
Spotted at @ericadamsfornyc re-election campaign launch: Winnie Greco
As Mayor Adams moved to skip the primary and run for re-election as an independent, he hired RFK's petition fixer, Trent Pool, to get on the ballot. Pool faces charges of assaulting his girlfriend in an upscale Manhattan hotel. Adams says he had no idea. gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…
Mamdani up double digits in Bay Ridge and nearly double digits in Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst
“You probably should not be losing sleep at night over this,” said Christopher O’Leary, the former FBI assistant special agent in charge of the New York JTTF. “This is not exactly the Iranian version of the TV show ‘The Americans.’” gothamist.com/news/amid-iran…
Former fed law enforcement officials say masked and unidentifiable agents could make arrests more risky. DHS spox says agents wear masks to protect themselves from "terrorist sympathizers" Meanwhile, mayor Adams claims masked protesters are real threat gothamist.com/news/more-ice-…
The private prison was the site where ICE arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver. bit.ly/4403Peu