Number Of NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Hits New Record
The stop-and-frisks totaled 684,330, which set a record dating back to 2002, when the NYPD began keeping a record of the stops.
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The stop-and-frisks totaled 684,330, which set a record dating back to 2002, when the NYPD began keeping a record of the stops.
A uniform worn by a member of the NYPD on 9/11 is helping doctors figure out exactly what made fist responders sick and there's hope it could help some of them get better.
Police are trying to identify a person seen in surveillance video just before a car involved in a hit-and-run days earlier, was set on fire.
The Tri-State Area has experienced a mild winter thus far and some believe it could be the reason crime numbers are up in the first month of this year as compared to last.
Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a serial burglar who appears to have developed a comfort zone on East 18th Street in Manhattan.
Police said the suspects -- two men and two women -- stop to ask their victims for directions and then steal jewelry, cash and other items before fleeing.
Lawyers for Jateik Reed, 19, say they don't believe the office of District Attorney Robert Johnson can conduct a real and independent investigation.
The woman was last seen inside of her residence Thursday morning.
According to police, officers thought Ramarley Graham was acting suspiciously on the street.
Police say the suspect entered a grocery store at 1274 Bronx River Avenue, jumped over the counter and demanded money from a store employee while claiming he had a gun.
The victims told police the suspects were armed and wearing ski masks when they entered the Brownsville apartment.
At a briefing Friday, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said the sergeant who supervised the officer has also been placed on restricted duty. They had to turn in their guns and badges and will sit behind a desk for 30 days.
Muslim groups are planning a march to NYPD headquarters Friday afternoon to protest what they say is police spying on their community.
Prosecutor Lewis Liberman called the shooting of officer Kevin Brennan an "evil act by an evil individual" and said it was "an assassination attempt."
The recommendation for increased, secret surveillance on Muslims and Shiite mosques was contained in a 2006 NYPD Intelligence report on Iran, obtained by the Associated Press.
Workers were digging in the water and the cannonball, believed to be from the Civil War time period, was found in dirt that was scooped up by their backhoe, officials said.
New state data show New York City police arrested more than 50,000 people on low-level marijuana charges last year. That's despite a drop-off after officers were told not to use tactics that critics decry as tricking people into getting arrested.
They say the same guy has knocked over 15 apartments. Police say he typically enters through the window, either climbing down from the rooftop or using the fire escape.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Officer Kevin Brennan was shot at the Bushwick House, which is a housing project. The alleged gunman, who officials named as Louis "Baby" Ortiz, is also wanted in connection with a homicide earlier this month, Bloomberg said.
They have street names like "Tiger," "Gunner," "Dancer," "Swerve," and "Bones." Federal prosecutors charge they are as reckless as they are ruthless in their turf wars.
Unlike everybody else on Earth, New York's Finest are no longer allowed to own any souvenirs emblazoned with the department logo, or even just the letters N-Y-P-D.
The NYPD and the Manhattan district attorney refused to comment Monday about the sex assault allegations against the police commissioner's son. But that's not stopping an avalanche of leaks about the state of the investigation.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg finds himself defending the city's use of and spending money to maintain more than 1,000 pieces of retro technology called the typewriter.
Investigators say the suspect jumped into a Honda Odyssey in the Bronx Saturday afternoon, then sped off with a 3-year-old in the back seat.
Police in Brooklyn clashed with Occupy Wall Street protesters on Saturday night. The occupiers allegedly threw garbage cans out of a vacant building as part of a protest.
