Defense lawyers laid into the NYPD on Tuesday over its failure to safeguard reams of evidence destroyed last year when a fire tore through one of the department’s storage facilities in Brooklyn — a blaze that has left efforts to exonerate the wrongfully convicted in limbo. The attorneys vented their frustrations during a City Council oversight hearing focused on the December fire at the NYPD’s .
More menhaden in New York waters means more whales, but also more collisions with ships. Plus, the Manhattan district attorney tosses hundreds of old convictions.
All of the convictions involve one of nine officers who were later convicted of on-the-job offenses among them taking bribes, illegally selling guns, lying under oath and planting drugs on suspects and are no longer on the force.