The mayor and police commissioner of New York City have sworn in the first class of NYPD recruits since Sept. 11, charging them with the difficult task of fighting everything from low-level crime to international terrorism.
Read More →Walk-in suicide bombers like those who have attacked public places in Israel will hit the United States eventually, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. NYPD is already preparing.
Read More →The NYPD will shrink to its smallest size since 1993 if Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has to put his contingency budget plan in place, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
Read More →Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that a suspect's recent escape from a police interrogation room in the Bronx amounted to "gross negligence" on the part of the detectives guarding him. Kelly ordered a review of how people in custody are handled in more than 100 police buildings.
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It was Nov. 1, 1955: my first tour of duty as a policeman. I had been assigned to the 15th Precinct, in midtown Manhattan, to kick off Operation Cross-town, a scheme devised to expedite the flow of vehicular traffic through one of the busiest sections of the city.
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