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Investigators said Officer Peter Figoski, 47, was shot in the face while responding to a break-in just before 2:30 a.m. Monday at an apartment on Pine Street in Cypress Hills.
The protest followed a demonstration that took place on Monday outside of the offices of Goldman Sachs investment bank.
Bronx resident Raymond Rodriguez, 47, was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. He was taken into custody at 3:15 p.m. on the No. 4 train at Grand Central.
"I helped her, because he dragged her behind my house," Lashanda Vickers told CBS 2's John Slattery. "I heard her screaming and I grabbed one of my big kitchen knives and I came out to help her."
The NYPD is asking the public for help in finding a missing person. Twelve-year-old Kaylynn Martinez was last seen on Monday, December 5 at 7 a.m.
The NYPD released a chilling video Thursday night of a rape suspect sneaking up on his latest victim. A woman was walking on 154th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens early Wednesday morning when she was attacked.
The move comes after a letter bomb was sent to the Joseph Ackerman, CEO of Deutsche Bank, and was received in Frankfurt, Germany.
Arrests for low-level marijuana possession have fallen 13 percent in New York City, after Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly cautioned officers not to bust people for small amounts of the drug found in pockets.
Police say the pair struck at all times of the day in prominently high traffic areas, including Chelsea, Midtown and the West Village.
Criminals in the city apparently no longer want cold, hard, cash. Instead they are in search of hand-held electronics like iPads, smartphones, and MP3 players, according to a new report.
A social media scandal has hit the NYPD. Internal Affairs is looking into whether police officers posted ugly comments on Facebook about New York's West Indian community.
The two female officers, who wish to remain anonymous, are from the 103rd precinct and say that Lt. Jason Margolis, should no longer be allowed to supervise them pending an investigation.
Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano says the Long Island county will benefit from a "fresh look" at its operations after a series of problems in the department.
The NYPD is angry, and apparently for a very good reason. A manhunt is currently underway for a suspect that attempted to shoot two officers in the Jackson Heights section of Queens on Friday afternoon.
Police say the robber shot his second robbery victim in the torso before demanding money.
Transportation Alternatives and concerned citizens took to One Police Plaza on Wednesday demanding the NYPD enforce traffic laws to make city streets safer for pedestrians and bikers.
The most recent victim suffered lacerations to her arms and face as well as a broken ankle.
Police said someone went on an early morning spree yesterday, slicing tire after tire -- sometimes two and three to a car -- along Third Avenue.
The suspect is described a man about 6'0'' and approximately 40-years-old. Police have released a sketch of the suspect and are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Cory Holmes, an employee of the college, was confronted by police after being seen with marijuana in a bathroom at the school's Willowbrook campus, police said.
Some call it the "Fifth Avenue shuffle" -- street vendors ticketed and told to move only to move right back once the police leave the scene. The vendor violations have some calling for a street cart crackdown.
The most recent robbery happened on Wednesday, November 23 around 6:06 p.m. Police say the victim, a 71-year-old, was attacked from behind as he was entering the lobby of his apartment building.
The NYPD says Anibal Mercado intervened after 22-year-old Antonio Ynoa of Brooklyn punched a flight attendant in the face Sunday on JetBlue Flight 832 from the Dominican Republic to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The NYPD says 18-year-old Eric Norman was shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
