NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stinging rebuke for what the mayor and police commissioner have defended as […]
14-year-old Shaaliver Douse was shot and killed early Sunday by New York police after he reportedly did not drop his gun when ordered. Officers say they heard gunshots then witnessed Shaaliver Douse chasing another male down a street in the South Bronx. Douse was shot with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun as he ran. The officers, […]
An NYPD cop allegedly punched his 3-year-old son in the face after “recklessly drinking,” The New York Daily News reports. Jason Sharp, a 10-year veteran of the New York Police Department, has been suspended for 30 days and charged with third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The toddler was “hospitalized with swelling and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation. Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation. Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday. Gilbert Valle's fantasies about cannibalizing women — in one, he said he hoped to "cook her over low […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook. "Rockstarz up 3-0," one suspect boasted — a reference to the body count from […]
A disgraced, former New York City police officer now insists he only hatched the ticket-writing scheme of issuing summonses to dead people that caused him his career as a means of satisfying orders from his superiors to drastically increase the 125 to 150 citations he was already producing each month. Paul Pizzuto, a 17-year veteran […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The NYPD has disciplined 17 employees over racist and offensive remarks on a Facebook page about revelers at last year's West Indian American Day Parade. The comments referred to "savages" and "animals." One person wrote, "Let them kill each other." The raucous annual parade is a heavily policed event. It's one […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers have painted over a mural that listed the NYPD as "murderers" along with global corporations. The mural was on the side of a dry cleaner in Upper Manhattan for five days. Two plainclothes police officers were dispatched with paintbrushes to cover it up on Tuesday. Graffiti […]
A top sex-crimes prosecutor from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has hastily resigned her post in the midst of a growing scandal where it’s alleged she deliberately ignored mounting evidence that could have freed four black men charged with “beating, raping and pimping out” an Orthodox Jewish girl who not only later recanted all of […]
