Police Ready With New Tech To Keep New Year's Eve Celebrations Safe
New levels of security are being added to Times Square to protect over a million people that police expect to celebrate the New Year's Eve ball drop Monday night.
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New levels of security are being added to Times Square to protect over a million people that police expect to celebrate the New Year's Eve ball drop Monday night.
Police are looking for the person who scrawled swastikas on an elderly woman's door in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
The incident has sparked controversy, with many officials calling for harsher punishment for the men and a renewed debate about how to handle low-level transit crime.
Countless cops across the city at times serve as tour guide or camera man with the surge of tourists visiting the Big Apple.
Sources tell CBS2 officials are pursuing the remaining three the men in connection to the fight.
In a shocking video shared on social media, Police Officer Syed Ali was seen holding off five homeless with his baton after they began acting aggressively in the East Broadway Subway station.
The child was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries, police said.
Authorities say Ian Cruz, 23, was found in Bayswater Point State Park on Dec. 16, with trauma to his head and body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two dozen lucky kids were rewarded for a job well done on Saturday when they got to shop with a few officers from the NYPD.
The department's 2017 use-of-force report showed that officers opened fire 52 times last year, a 28 percent decrease from previous year. Police officers' use of Tasers, meanwhile, jumped about 45 percent.
Authorities said on Tuesday that Lesbia Ayala died of systematic silicon syndrome on June 17.
Police sources told CBS2 the victim got into an argument with a woman on a BX 19 MTA bus along 149th Street near Morris Avenue when she reached out to pet the woman's service dog.
Justin Murrell, 16, faces assault and attempted murder charges in the June 2017 incident, which left Det. Dalsh Veve with brain damage.
A woman accidentally wounded during a police-involved shootout with a suspect in the Bronx plans to sue.
Family and friends came together Sunday, one year after a popular restaurant owner was murdered.
Police say one of the suspects has been charged with murder after allegedly pushing the 17-year-old into oncoming traffic on Dec. 10.
Police sources tell CBS2 that an 11-year-old girl was walking to class around 8 a.m. Saturday morning when a 40-year-old man pulled up to her in his car near Center Street and Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood.
A violent attack caught on camera this week in Queens is just one example of a recent uptick in crime that has some people worried about their safety on mass transit.
The NYPD said the threats do not appear to be credible and were sent electronically to numerous locations.
The summit comes in response to Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz's brutal killing back in June.
Is it just a string of bad luck? Or rather systematic problems finally coming to light for the nation's largest police force?
Cellphone video captured 23-year-old Jazmine Headley clinging to her 1-year-old son, Damone, telling officers they were hurting the boy as they tried to arrest her last Friday afternoon.
It's the video seen around the country -- a young mother arrested at a Brooklyn food stamp office. On Tuesday, the city social services commissioner apologized as calls mount for steps to ensure it never happens again.
The officer, whose name has not been released, was shot late Sunday night after responding to reports of a domestic dispute in the Shore Acres neighborhood.
More than 60 bars are officially participating in the event and plan to donate part of their sales to charity.
