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A conflict of interest ( COI ) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in another. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent from the execution of impropriety. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs.
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New York City Police patch The Organization of the New York City Police Department is structured into numerous bureaus and units. As a whole, the New York City Police Department is headed by the New York City Police Commissioner , a civilian administrator appointed by the Mayor of New York City , with the senior sworn uniformed member of the service titled "Chief of Department". The Police Commissioner appoints a number of Deputy and Assistant Commissioners. The Department is divided into eight bureaus, six of which are enforcement bureaus.I was surprised two weeks ago to walk into my local TD Bank, on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village, New York to find that the security officer who was usually standing by, on alert, had been replaced by a uniformed, armed, radio-carrying New York Police Department officer, Officer Battle. I confirmed from him that he was, in fact, an NYPD officer – and was working part-time for TD bank. Of course, this raised red flags for me.
NYPD for hire: how uniformed New York cops moonlight for banks | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free
Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question
I wrote last week about the multi-million dollar contribution to the NYPD from JPChase, but it turns out the corporate influence goes much deeper than that. Pam Martens, an activist who successfully sued the NYPD after her arrest for handing out leaflets about corruption at Citibank, tells us a lot of things we didn't know about the relationship between the NYPD and Wall Street, and it's jawdropping information: If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers.
19 december 2012 - Politics got stuck within the borders of nation states unable to cope with 21st century problems. Professor Benjamin Barber boldly offers a solution to this asymmetry: let the mayors of the world take over. Professor Benjamin Barber gave an interview in The Netherlands, where he was invited by The House of Commons to speak about his new book, If mayors ruled the world .
Pragmatism versus Al Qaeda and Toyota
jpmorganchase: NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION — NEW YORK
Beginning in 2010, JPMorgan Chase donated technology, time and resources valued at $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation, including 1,000 new patrol car laptops. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing "profound gratitude" for the company's donation. "These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe," Dimon said. "We're incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work."
Quelle Surprise! "J.P. Morgan Chase "donates" $4.6 Million to NYPD" #OccupyWallStreet
Quelle Surprise! “J.P. Morgan Chase “donates” $4.6 Million to NYPD” #OccupyWallStreet Posted on01 October 2011.
Posted on07 October 2011. Tags: 4.6 Million , bank of america , Barklays Capital , Carl Icahn , donation , goldman sachs , jamie dimon , Jeffries & Co , jpmorgan chase , News corp , NYPD , Rupert Murdoch , The Renco Group Almost a week ago, “ Quelle Surprise!
JPMC isn't alone "Donating" to NYPD! Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs... others did also! #occupywallstreet #OWS
Ashley Gilbertson/VII, for The New York Times Nicholas K. Peart, 23, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times. One evening in August of 2006, I was celebrating my 18th birthday with my cousin and a friend. We were staying at my sister’s house on 96th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan and decided to walk to a nearby place and get some burgers.
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D.
what if police would coördinate raids on democr/repuli meetings?
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week . An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities?
Protesters outside a Bank of America annual shareholders' meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free
framing tactics by police
Martha Stewart went to jail for it. Hedge fund honcho Raj Rajaratnam was fined $92 million and will go to jail for years for it. But members of Congress can do the same thing -use non-public information to make stock trades -- and there's no law against it. Steve Kroft reports on how America's lawmakers can legally make tidy profits on information only they know, simply because they won't pass a law against themselves.
Congress insiders: Above the law?
Campus police = corporated police
Campus Police or University police in the United States and Canada are often sworn police officers employed by a college or university to protect the campus and surrounding areas and the people who live, work, and visit it. Many university police forces employ a combination of police officers, security guards and student workers. [ edit ] Basis University police departments are established to provide a quicker response time to incidents on campus and to offer campus-specific services not necessarily available from local policing organizations. For many campuses, if there were no campus police the local agencies would have to almost double in size. [ citation needed ] Many larger universities have a student population equal to or greater than the civilian population of the community. [ citation needed ] [ examples needed ]UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi speaks with students at the spot where… (Bryan Patrick / Sacramento…) Former Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton will head a University of California-sponsored investigation into the controversial pepper-spraying of student protesters last week at UC Davis, university officials announced Tuesday. Bratton is to lead an independent review and report his findings within a month, UC President Mark G. Yudof said. Bratton is chairman of the New York-based Kroll security consulting firm, which is being hired by UC for a fee that is still under negotiation, officials said.
Bratton to lead investigation of UC Davis pepper-spraying - latimes.com
As Rei Terada put it: In appointing LA Police Chief William Bratton to investigate UCPD police brutality and Berkeley law school’s Dean Christopher Edley to “to lead an examination of police policies in handling student protests at all 10 UC campuses” ( LA Times ), Mark Yudof travesties the independent thought and autonomy that students and faculty are now calling for. Bratton has made his career as an advocate of less physically violent police tactics that control and diminish public space in precisely neoliberal terms. The last thing the UC system needs right now is advice on how to make UCPD even more like a contemporary municipal police force.
“passing off as reform”
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