Police Wonder If They'll Need To Confiscate Assault Weapons In Event Of Ban
Amid talk of reinstating the assault weapons ban that expired eight years ago, police departments nationwide are thinking of ways to confiscate such weapons.
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Amid talk of reinstating the assault weapons ban that expired eight years ago, police departments nationwide are thinking of ways to confiscate such weapons.
The NYPD is trying to make sure a massacre like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., does not happen again.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday that their searches would be similar to those being used to spot terrorist chatter online.
The NYPD wants help from the public in finding a suspect who assaulted a woman on the Upper West Side.
The NYPD announced Wednesday that it has taken down a street gang with female factions that went by names such as "Bad Barbies" and "One Seven Hoes."
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the suspect, Freddy Keitt, was taken into custody Tuesday night after he was seen acting suspiciously in Stuyvesant Town.
Sgt. Stephanie Moses "epitomized professionalism in her appearance, conduct and dedication to duty," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement.
A New York City police officer was struck and injured by a car in Times Square Tuesday evening.
Leonel Cuevas was riding on a dirt bike that collided with a patrol car on Walton Avenue Oct. 27. The driver of the bike was killed.
Lawyer Robert Kronenberg said his client came back from war and applied to become an NYPD officer, but was rejected due to his mental health history. The police department said each applicant is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
An elderly woman was brutally attacked in her Greenwich Village apartment building. The suspect was caught on tape waiting for the moment to strike.
A police traffic enforcement agent and an FDNY employee were arrested in separate incidents this weekend -- on drugs and weapons charges and for driving while intoxicated, respectively.
A New York City school safety agent was arrested in the South Bronx Saturday morning and charged with assault and weapons violations.
The victim, 58, was threatened and pushed, police said. The mugger allegedly acted as though he had a gun.
Ten members of a street gang in the Bronx have been indicted, in connection with multiple shootouts on the streets, and a recruitment campaign that targeted children as young as 14 through Facebook.
Algerian immigrant Ahmed Ferhani, who was among two arrested in a NYPD sting operation, was caught trying to purchase live grenades and other weapons in May of 2011.
The homeless man seen getting boots from a New York City police officer in a photo that went viral is not actually homeless.
Asked about the $100 all-weather boots Officer Larry DePrimo gave him, Jeffrey Hillman said he has hidden them because "they are worth a lot of money."
A surveillance video shows the suspect as being 5'9" with blue jeans, black boots, and a black jacket with a fur-trimmed hood.
Officers recovered a loaded .40-cal. Taurus semiautomatic handgun, a loaded 9mm Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun, 195 tablets of Oxycodone, and four additional small Ziploc bags of marijuana in the stop.
The New York City Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a woman found wandering around the East Village early Wednesday morning.
Nicholas Mina pleaded guilty last month to criminal sale of a firearm, criminal sale of a controlled substance, grand larceny and other charges.
It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 16.
A New York City police sergeant has been charged with assault, reportedly after she punched someone in the face while off duty on the Lower East Side.
It happened back on Sept. 26 at a home on Cypress Avenue.
