Data Description RESEARCH FINDINGS
the NYPD to... use excessive force like this, in front of so many
subordinate officers and citizens, sets a terrible example.”
and officer -
Synonymy or near-synonymy: officer = cop
- Collocation: citizen city
8 Purtell
has since been promoted to chief and heads the department‟s
Organized Crime Control Bureau. He
ran the NYPD „s rescue and
recovery operations at Ground Zero after
the 911 attacks and presided
over a decline in crime as Patrol Borough Bronx commander.
- Personal reference: he
- Additive conjunction: and
- Repetition: Purtell and NYPD
- Temporal conjunction: after
9 The case
was settled in January but
Boss , who now works for the
Huffington Post, went public for the first time Thursday.
- Demonstrative reference: the
case -
Repetition: Boss -
Collocation: work promote in U8
10
“I was shocked by how aggressive the police
were with me when I done anything,” he said.
- Personal reference: I, me, and
he -
Synonymy or near synonymy: aggressive = excessive in U3,
police = cop -
Collocation: police handcuffs in U3
11
Boss says he plans to use his
settlement cash on physical therapy for his
injured right hand.
- Personal reference: he and his
- Repetition: Boss
- Superordinate: wrist in U3 =
hand
Table 3: The Units in the Text 2 Unit
Text Cohesion Devices
1 Occupy Wall Street is still proving
expensive for the city of New York, who keep having pay out large sums of
money to Occupy protesters who were over-enthusiastically arrested by the
NYPD. -
There is no grammatical and lexical cohesion device.
2 In April 2013, the city paid 365,000
to settle claims over the destruction of the OWS library, and civil rights
attorney
Wylie Stecklow of Stecklow Cohen Thompson says hes settled
- Demonstrative reference: the
city -
Collocation: attorney arrest, Occupier Occupy in
U1
six or seven other Occupiers claims for unlawful arrests.
- Repetition: claim and arrest
- Synonymy or near-
synonymy: Occupier = Occupy protesters in U1
3 The latest
came just yesterday, when the city agreed to pay 55,000 in the
case of
Josh Boss,
who was
livestreaming a December 2011 march when he was thrown to the ground and
kneed by Chief Thomas Purtell, then the commanding officer
of the Manhattan South Patrol Division,
which oversees all marches and protests in the city.
- Demonstrative reference: the
latest, the case, the commanding officer, and the
city.
- Personal reference: he
- Repetition: march
- Additive conjunction: and
4 Purtell is the most senior officer
weve ever seen in a physical unlawful arrest
, Stecklow tells the Voice. He
got hands on. -
Repetition: Purtell, unlawful, arrest, and Stecklow
- Synonymy or near-
synonymy: tell = say in U2 -
Superordiante: the Voice = the Village Voice
- Personal reference: he
5
Boss was filming the march on the
evening of December 17, 2011. As the marcher
s crossed the street, so did he
, camera in hand. Footage of the incident
shows that he was in a crosswalk
when Purtell came running at him, flung him to the ground, and
put his knee on Bosss chest. Kick his ass, Tom another officer can be
heard saying in the background. -
Synonymy: flung = thrown throw in U3
- Demonstrative reference: the
march, the marcher, and the incident
- Personal reference: he, him,
and his -
Verbal substitution: did -
General word: the march = Occupy march
- Additive conjunction: and
- Superordinate: crosswalk =
street -
Collocation: march marcher, camera film, film
live-streamer, camera live-streamer
- Repetition: Boss, march,
Purtell, and officer 6
The video
shows
Boss
lying
motionless for the duration of the arrest
. Nontheless, Purtell tells him, Dont resist.
Im not resisting anything I was trying to cross the street. Boss
- Demonstrative reference: the
arrest and the street -
Personal reference: him, I, and my
- Collocation: resist arrest
- Repetition: Boss, Purtell,
replies. And then, a moment later, Is that knee on my face really necessary,
officer
?
Oh, I kinda think it is, Purtell replies.
resist, and officer
7 Stecklow
s firm released two video segments showing the arrest from
various angles:
Boss
was cuffed with two pairs of
plastic ziptie handcuffs. His attorneys say his backpack, filled with video
equipment, rested heavily on the double
cuffs, cutting
off
his circulation. Audio from the video
segments shows that after he was arrested, another officer eventually
loosened his cuffs, remarking, His hands are turning blue. He was
arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and held for five hours. The
charges were eventually dropped, and he
sued the NYPD for false arrest, excessive force, and nerve damage to
his wrists
. -
Repetition: Stecklow, attorney, Boss, NYPD, video,
and arrest -
Demonstrative reference: the arrest and the video
- Personal reference: his and he
- Additive conjunction: and
- Collocation: handcuffs
wrist, handcuffs arrest -
Temporal conjunction: after
8
Purtell
has denied making an overly
brutal arrest. The video released by Stecklow
shows a later interview with
the officer, evidently conducted by someone with the law firm. You dont
know what youre talking about. He was not struck in the face, Purtell
says. He was not injured. Whats perceived on the video is not what
happened.
- Repetition: Purtell, Stecklow,
arrest, and officer -
Demonstrative reference: the video
- Personal reference: you and
he -
Synoymy or near-synonymy: injured = damage in U7
9
Stecklow says that the arrest was
disturbing not just for its brutality, but because of the presence of at least 20
younger officer s around Purtell:
This is what weve seen time and time again. Theyre training the junior
officer s. What are they learning?
When a guy is laying prone on the floor, yell, Stop resist
ing‟ so you
have reason to use force and make a bad arrest.
- Repetition: Stecklow, arrest,
and Purtell -
Demonstrative reference: the arrest
- Personal reference: its and
they -
Adversative conjunction: but -
Additive conjunction: and -
Synonymy or near- synonymy: younger = junior
10
The attorney
adds that
these
- Demonstrative reference: the
settlements
are unfortunate, in that
they come out of taxpayer money. It
falls on all of us taxpayers instead of the individual officers. Im not happy
about that, he says. I believe that if even ten percent of the payout money
came out of the police pension fund, thered be a sharp decline in the
number of these type of incidents.
attorney and these settlements -
Personal reference: they, it, us, I, and he
- Repetition: attorney,
settlement, money, and incident
11 The same
would be true, he adds, if protester
s were allowed to sue the officer
s who witnessed their unlawful or brutal arrests but did not intervene.
- Comparative reference: the
same -
Personal reference: he and their
- Adversative conjunction: but
- Synonymy or near-synonymy:
sue = claim in U2 and protester = Occupier in U2
- Collocation: protester
protest in U3 -
Repetition: protester, sue, officer, unlawful, and arrest
12 The majority of police officers are
good, Stecklow says. They want to help. And if we put pressure on the
majority to intervene, again, we can start to reduce these kinds of
incident
s. -
Personal reference: we and they
- Repetition: police, officer,
Stecklow, and incident
13
Purtell
was once demoted in 2003,
after he led a mistaken raid on a
womans apartment. The woman, 57- year-old Alberta Spruill, died after a
concussion grenade was thrown into her home
by police.
- Repetition: Purtell, thrown,
and police -
Personal reference: he and her -
Collocation: police grenade -
General word: home = apartment
14 According to a New York Times report,
the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Spruill died from the stress and fear
caused by the detonation of the concussion grenade and from being
handcuff
ed. -
Additive conjunction: and -
Collocation: handcuffs police
15 Although Purtell
was reassigned to
the Housing Bureau for a time, he work
ed his way up to Manhattan
South,
and
has received
two
promotion s since the Josh Boss
arrest . Hes now head of the NYPDs
Organized Crime Control Bureau. -
Adversative conjunction: although
- Personal reference: he and his
- Additive conjunction: and
- Collocation: promotion
work -
Repetition: Purtell, Josh Boss,
and arrest 16
A Times story from February claims that hes being considered for yet
another promotion, to replace either the current chief of detectives or the head
of the Internal Affairs Bureau. -
Personal reference: he -
Additive conjunction: or -
Repetition: claim