Daily News-ProPublica Investigation Examines Troubling NYPD Tactic

Two-part series spans more than 1,000 case files.

The first article in this two-part series will appear online Friday at 8 a.m. ET and in the print edition of the New York Daily News Sunday. The paper’s joint investigation with ProPublica, conducted over two years, examines the New York Police Department’s history of filing civil lawsuits against residents and business owners.

From today’s announcement:

The Daily News and ProPublica examined more than 1,000 cases filed over an 18-month period, along with the depositions of the underlying criminal charges for hundreds of people who were banned from homes as a result of these actions.

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