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NYPD Reformer's City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers


NYPD Reformer s City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers
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Edwin Raymond
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When NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond blew the whistle on alleged arrest quotas pushed by the department, he became a target of scorn and derision from his superiors who wrote poor job evaluations, which hobbled his career. His revelation that a numbers-obsessed NYPD was purposefully arresting Black and brown New Yorkers as a means of being proactive which he opposed despite confidants advising he keep quiet earned him national prominence and exhortations from supporters to run for office.
Five years after secretly recording superiors pressing him to meet arrest quotas, which resulted in an ongoing federal class action lawsuit filed by 12 officers (Raymond included) against the city, he took his supporters advice by running in this year’s Democratic primary for Brooklyn s 40th Council District. The ....

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