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Free Jennifer Whitney! Contact courts & top cop

Submitted September 2, 2004 - 1:38 pm by Benjamin Melançon
Well over 36 hours after being detained, Jennifer Whitney has not been released yet, to my knowledge.

Here are the numbers I was given, and called ("I'm a collegue of journalist Jennifer Whitney, I would like to know her arrest number -- or when and where she will be arraigned and docket number -- and what she is charged with..."):


  • Central Booking office (get arrest #)


    • (212) 374-3942

    • (212) 374-3921

    • (212) 374-3838


  • Arraignment Information (use arrest #)


    • (212) 374-6537

    • (212) 374-6538

    • (212) 374-6242


The central clerk's office, 212-374-6261 and the number I was given by that office, 212-374-6258 might also help.

If anyone has a good calling plan and lots of patience, you can try to break through the barrier of busy signals and occasional no-answers.  I'm hesitant to ask this because I know other people are looking to get through also, but illegal detaining added to illegal holding means war.  Please [mailto:ben_freejen@melanconent.com e-mail me] if you get through.

The precinct stations apparently were not involved in the processing of people arrested during the protests, so I guess we can leave them alone.

To express general discontent, use the NYPD's e-mail form for Commissioner Kelly: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html.

You can also call the NYPD Switchboard, 646-610-5000, or if you are in New York City 311 is the number for all non-emergency city information, even "opinions to mayor."

A letter from the New York City Police roundtable gives this fax number 646-610-5865 Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and I think it is accurate.  

There is this mail address also, if you want dear Ray Kelly to always remember you and your concern for Jennifer Whitney and the other musicians, journalists, demonstrators, and bystanders who were arrested, mostly for trying to walk from one place to another:  

1 Police Plaza
New York, New York 10038

I, for one, want the New York City establishment, police state wing, to remember the reaction their actions received.

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