The article keeps calling what's obviously institutional racism and aggression as "NYPD’s historic sense of humor". It gives a few examples of such "jokes" that

The article keeps calling what's obviously institutional racism and aggression as "NYPD’s historic sense of humor". It gives a few examples of such "jokes" that just appear to be very public displays of racism and bad taste, like "wearing blackface while tossing fried chicken and watermelon into a crowd from a Labor Day Parade float in 1998". It's not "sense of humor" if it was never meant as a joke. Just because a racist hick with a badge thinks it's a joke doesn't make it one.