Andrew Case's Blog

As we learned from ProPublica on August 17, NYPD officers are withholding documentary evidence and body-worn camera footage related to a number of CCRB investigations.

On August 18, I filed a complaint against those officers. The CCRB has previously threatened to substantiate allegations of abuse of authority against officers who refused to attend interviews — when it did so, the NYPD relented and made the officers available.

The CCRB has negotiated with the NYPD and the NYPD has still failed to...

Very grateful to have had the chance to write about the over-reliance on junk science in crime fiction for CrimeReads last year. The article is available here.

Last summer, I tweeted about my experience clerking in the District of Arizona for the racial profiling trial of Joe Arpaio. That led to some news coverage and an op-ed in the Washington Post. It's nice to get recognition, but now that Arpaio has announced a senate run the stakes are quite serious.

Arpaio's career and the Arpaio pardon are among the most awful examples of where law enforcement has failed in this country. We rely on law enforcement, in this country, to carry out laws made by ot...

Since the release of The Big Fear, I have been asked to write a number of guest posts, which I'm linking to here.

This week, The Strand Magazine, a terrific online journal covering crime fiction, published a personal essay about my work investigating NYPD misconduct, available here.

Since the release of The Big Fear, I have been asked to write a number of guest columns. I'm linking to them here for those of you who have been reading and following.

Today, I'm posting an article I did for Fiction Books, a British website covering new fiction. The pieces is about my transition from playwright to crime writer and my history with classic crime. Enjoy.

It’s the beginning of the year, and that means it’s time for police departments, police unions, and police critics to argue over the meaning of last year’s crime statistics. Here in New York, the debate has fallen along familiar lines—the police and the administration touting greater safety (and claiming credit for it), while scaremongers howl that the numbers are overstated, and critics complain that the arrest patterns show racial and social disparities. There is a great overview of the typ...

As someone who spent close to a decade investigating police misconduct, researching and drafting policy recommendations, and working with stakeholders on issues of policing, I support the goals of the current movement, but am sometimes frustrated by the proposed resolutions. The current wave of activists wants to draw attention to the problem of overpolicing in this country—either as embodied by police shootings, primarily of young black men, or as the militarization of police departments, or...

Last week's article, on Pat Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and the priorities of public-sector unions, ran in Newsweek. You can access it here.

One highlight of my job as the spokesman and policy director of New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board was the NYPD’s Advancing Community Trust program. Twice a year, the entire graduating class of the police academy would attend a day-long session at the Apollo Theatre. It started with group of high-profile panelists (Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry, Calvin Butts–one year Wycleaf Jean came) talking about policing in minority neighborhoods. The rest of the day was a series of role-play exer...

If you have followed police issues at all over the past decade, you have probably heard the term “Broken Windows Policing.” You might think that it means something along the lines of what the New York Times said it means this January, a policing strategy premised on the belief that “summonses issued and arrests made for minor offenses preclude the eruption of major crimes.” If so, you are completely wrong. But don’t worry, you are not alone.

George Kelling and James Wilson unveiled Broken Wind...