That new rule is outlined in a document that NYPD beat reporters must sign if they want to use the new office. “Authorized journalists must adhere to the following,” the document reads, before rattling off a list of restrictions on journalists: Reporters will no longer be able to use their credentials past the security checkpoint without a security screening. Past the security cordon, they’re supposed to stay in the trailer or the little courtyard out back of the trailer. If they want to use the public bathroom on the ground floor of the headquarters, that’s okay. They can also go to the cafeteria on the ground floor.
Beyond those destinations, though, “when traveling throughout police headquarters, authorized members of the media must be escorted by a member of Headquarters Security or DCPI,” the new regulations state.
Even to attend disciplinary trials, which take place on the fourth floor and are open to the public, reporters will be required to notify the cops on duty at Headquarters Security.
Is there any source corroborating this story? No offence but I’ve never heard of this “Hell Gate NYC” reporting commune and there is basically nothing about it online.
Lots of places reported on the NYPD’s move to shut down the old office journalists had within the station that started all this (for example, here’s the NY Daily News rounding up a bunch of local papers’ reactions), but I haven’t been able to find anyone else talking about the contract journalists have to sign to use the new one, so I think this might just be too small scale to get very much coverage.
Fwiw, this story has been up a couple of days now and includes a link to a copy of a letter signed with an NYPD department name and email/phone number, if that was a straight up forgery I really think someone would have forced them to take it down by now (or at least issued some kind of statement saying that this isn’t NYPD policy)
Hell Gate is a definitely a smaller less known outfit, but if you look at their staff’s resumes they’re legit.
Its crazy that you can Google any doctor and find a lot of personal info on them. Their license, where they practice, everything.
But a police officer? Nah that’s private.
The folks who have authority to walk into a house and start shooting, also gets the right to privacy.
seems totally normal for a
police organizationcriminal organization to shield themselves fromliabilityaccountability
