Posted on February 1, 2016 by Erin Durkin in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Erin Durkin The NYPD Inspector General should investigate the policing of homeless New Yorkers, advocacy groups say. Communities United for Police Reform, Picture the Homeless, and more than 50 other groups wrote to IG Philip Eure requesting the formal probe, saying there are rampant examples of cops unfairly targeting the homeless.