Advocate: Taking Photos of Homeless ‘Unethical and Inhumane’

Advocates are speaking out against a police union-backed initiative, and other apps which prompt New Yorkers to post pictures of the city’s homeless online.

In August, the Sergeants Benevolent Association launched the “Peek-a-Boo, We See You!” campaign, which asked on-duty NYPD officers to snap photos of quality-of-life offenders to document what union president Ed Mullins called “a city in decline.”