Corrections Reporter

Graham Rayman

Graham Rayman covers criminal justice and policing for the New York Daily News. He has also worked for the Village Voice, Newsday and New York Newsday. He has won multiple journalism prizes over his 30-year career, and is the author of The NYPD Tapes, and co-author of Rikers: An Oral History.

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell is pictured during the first quarter crime briefing press conference Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in Manhattan, New York.

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NYPD brass refuse to answer Council questions on controversial social media posts during tense hearing

May 10, 2024 at 10:18 a.m.

After two months of speaking their minds on social media, NYPD officials were tight-lipped about their controversial posts at a City Council hearing Thursday as two department executives responsible for...

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old real estate developer, was arrested at Park Ave. and E. 72nd St. by police following the clash with protesters picketing the home of a Barnard College trustee Tuesday morning, cops said.

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Man ID’d as cousin of controversial Rabbi Meir Kahane arrested for ramming NYC pro-Palestinian protester

May 8, 2024 at 6:24 p.m.

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old real estate developer, was arrested at Park Ave. and E. 72nd St. by police following the clash with protesters picketing the home of a Barnard College...

Chief of Patrol John Chell (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

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Under fire for political stands, NYPD Chief John Chell cancels appearance at Republican event

May 8, 2024 at 8:07 a.m.

The poster for the Whitestone Republican Club event, featuring Chell in uniform and dubbed "Special Event: NYC In Crisis!," raised eyebrows from ex-NYPD officials and government ethics watchdogs.

The city intends to sign construction contracts worth close to $7 billion with two construction partnerships for the new Queens and Bronx jails that show they may not be completed until 2031 — four years after the 2027 Close Rikers deadline — city records show.

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New jails in Bronx, Queens on track to open four years after deadline to close Rikers Island

May 7, 2024 at 10:09 p.m.

The city intends to sign construction contracts worth close to $7 billion with two construction partnerships for the new Queens and Bronx jails that show they may not be completed...

City Department of Correction pulls over 3,000 body-worn cameras offline after camera malfunctions, injures correction captain

City Dept. of Correction pulls all body-worn cameras after one ignites, injures captain

May 4, 2024 at 9:07 p.m.

The city Department of Correction temporarily pulled almost 3,500 body-worn cameras after one caught fire and injured a correction captain, a department spokeswoman said Saturday.

Cops including two high-ranking NYPD officials proudly hoisted an American flag after evicting protesters encamped at City College on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Kaz Daughtry, the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Tarik Sheppard, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information, posed next to the American flag afterwards. (@NYPDDaughtry / X)

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Is the NYPD too political? Cops drive Gaza protest narrative with slick video of Columbia raid

May 4, 2024 at 4:13 p.m.

Critics say the NYPD is in danger of becoming overly political as it seeks to burnish its image, that there is a line between promoting good police work and taking a...

Lisa Zornberg, Chief Council to the Mayor and City Hall. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)

Top Adams’ lawyer demands ethics inquiry over councilman’s comments in Pearson sex harass case

May 4, 2024 at 12:37 p.m.

Mayor Adams' chief City Hall lawyer is demanding an ethics inquiry into Councilman Lincoln Restler for how he questioned administration officials about the city's handling of sexual harassment allegations against...

Roxanne Ludemann, left, and Timothy Pearson.

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NYC Law Dept. official grilled on handling of Timothy Pearson sexual harassment allegations

May 3, 2024 at 12:35 p.m.

Council Member Lincoln Restler took the Adams administration to task over why the mayor's Equal Employment Opportunity office appears to have stopped an investigation of retired NYPD Sgt. Roxanne Ludemann's...

Cellphone footage obtained by the Daily News shows a collection of drugs that authorities found during an attempt to smuggle them into Rikers Island jail.

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Rikers Island jail search uncovers large cache of contraband drugs, weapons

May 2, 2024 at 6:50 p.m.

A search in a Rikers Island jail uncovered a large cache of narcotics, including cocaine, K2 and marijuana in vacuum sealed bags, dozens of fentanyl-soaked papers, cigarettes, tobacco and ceramic...

DOI probers have asked the NYPD for a wide range of records related to personnel procedures, discretionary promotions and disciplinary charges. The agency was previously investigating Pearson for his role in a scuffle with security guards at a Midtown migrant shelter in October.

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DOI probe of mayoral adviser Timothy Pearson broadens in wake of harassment allegation

May 1, 2024 at 6:02 p.m.

DOI probers have asked the NYPD for a wide range of records related to personnel procedures, discretionary promotions and disciplinary charges. The agency was previously investigating Pearson for his role...

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