The subway system should have its own special prosecutor dedicated to subterranean justice, an MTA board member says. amNY reports that at yesterday's transit committee meeting, NYPD transit bureau chief Joseph Fox revealed that 40 people prosecuted for crime in the subway this year are on parole and not supposed to be using the subway system. “What is it that the district attorneys and courts are doing?" board member Charles Moerdler wants to know. "If they are not assisting us and incarcerating this garbage, and putting them in the pen, they are causing or assisting the crime rate." more ›

Governor Paterson is considering appointing a temporary special prosecutor to investigate last month's incident in which a cop was caught on video slamming a cyclist to the curb during a Critical Mass ride, and apparently falsifying his arrest report. In a lengthy article, the Villager reports that the governor could also make such a special prosecutor’s office permanent, granting it the power to replace the city’s five district attorneys in corruption cases. At a rally last week, Councilmember Charles Barron said, “Until the people rise up, people in power will not pay attention.” Some activists see Paterson, who as a state senator was arrested during a protest of the shooting of Amadou Diallo in 1999, as their best shot at reforming the so-called "blue wall of silence" in the NYPD. more ›