Andre Perry is 32 years old. He's a commercial photographer, lives in Brooklyn, and loves fashion. He's also black. A month ago, Perry was stopped at a subway station by an undercover officer with the New York City Police Department. He was interrogated about his two-finger ring, arrested, and charged with possession of a deadly weapon—"metal knuckles."

Does the NYPD have an undercover ice cream truck to go with its secret spy taxi cab? The Mister Softee-lookalike above was spotted double-parked in front of the department's 114th precinct in Astoria, Queens, with an NYPD baseball cap on its dashboard and all of its Softee branding conspicuously removed.

Over the weekend, the New York Review of Books published a long essay by Michael Greenberg about the standing hostility between mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Department. While writing the piece, Greenberg found himself at a bar in Glendale, Queens, where several N.Y.P.D. cops had gathered after the funeral of slain Officer Rafael Ramos. What did they talk about? Bill de Blasio “sucking the cock of every protester” of police brutality—and a lot more:

Amidst the NYPD's kerfuffle with City Hall, the allegations against a group of Brooklyn cops who may have planted guns on innocent people have gotten a little lost. The New York Times thoroughly reported on several cases in December, and today, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced his office will launch an investigation.

The NYPD slowdown may be speeding up, but the one-sided airborne propaganda war against Bill de Blasio is evidently still in full effect. "De Blasio Get Off The Pot. Resign. We <3 NYPD," reads the latest banner, which flew behind an airplane over the Hudson River earlier today.

Someday, you'll tell your children about these past few weeks. Cops not doing their jobs. Murders everywhere. Pandemonium in the streets. Teens sneaking puffs from cigarettes and not getting knocked out cold for it. Fifth Avenue running red with the blood of innocents. But at long last, it's coming to an end.

The NYPD Inspector General—the much-discussed independent regulatory office that New York's City Council voted into existence in 2013—released its first-ever report today, and unsurprisingly, it's all about chokeholds. The IG's equally unsurprising findings: cops use the banned move too quickly, too often, and are rarely properly punished for it.