🌱 NYPD Placard Falsehoods + Child Vax Mandate • Daily Digest

Good morning, New York! It's Thursday, Oct. 14. So... like the old tree-falling-in-a-forest adage, what sound does the NYPD make when they say they showed up — but actually didn't? Officials are making a ruckus over cops allegedly falsifying their responses to illegal parking and placard abuse calls. We have more stunning details below.

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Here are the top stories in New York City today:

1. A scathing letter from City Council leaders reports NYPD cops not only falsified responses to illegal parking and placard abuse calls, they didn't properly respond to the remaining 72 percent of complaints made by investigators. (New York City Patch)
2. Explaining that he can't "hold against our kids the decisions of adults," Mayor Bill de Blasio won't support a child COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city schools. (New York City Patch)
3. Is it a crime to be poor in New York? The state Senate held a hearing Wednesday on a proposed law to ban "predatory" court fees. (New York City Patch)
4. Mayor Bill de Blasio is in a grave situation — he's taken to cemetery strolls in Park Slope. (New York City Patch)
5. In an attempt to alleviate overcrowding, some 200 women and trans-identifying detainees are being transferred from Rikers Island jail. (New York City Patch)
6. How many adult New Yorkers have moved back home because of the pandemic? (SILive.com)

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About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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