ok so i heard this interview on NPR this morining - firstly the guy was arrested in Albany NY - the NYPD doesnt arrest there; they cant, they are a city agency; he was turned over to the city for a warrant that existed in NYC and he was turned over to the Dept of Corrections which is done when you are arrested for an arrest for an outstanding warrant - esp from another agency.

this occurs with almost every person that is arrested from another agency and has an outstanding warrant in NYC and taken into custody - and from the looks of the article each of the "plaintiffs" were apprehended by some other agency and turned over to the city for "custody" ....

sounds like this is more of a problem with dept of Corrections- because essentially the Dept of Corrections controls who ( as in prisoners ) is presented at court for hearings that are IN custody - NOT the Police.

i realize this is just whistling in the wind for some people - but ultimately this article and the assertion in the NPR interview is extremely deceptive and a distortion of the actual policy and what occurs when someone has a warrant in NYC and comes into contact with the NYPD ( or MTA police or Port Authority ) - they do actually take you directly to Court - NOT Rikers ...

the problem isnt the NYPD the problem is how the courts function with people who are in custody - why the NYPD is soley being focused on is kinda indicative of someones agenda rather than truthfully conveying the facts that are in the article once you actually read it.