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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 12, 2014

New York City Advocate Calls for NYPD to Use Body Cams

"Simply rewriting the rules is not enough," said James, apparently referring to Bratton's plan to retrain all officers in the use of force in the wake of Eric Garner's death.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 11, 2014

NYPD Unions Fighting Back Against Critics

The city’s police are under attack, the NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association president said on Sunday. In a radio broadcast, SBA president Ed Mullins said city cops are now targeted by the media and "bottom-feeder politicians."

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 7, 2014

NYC Drops Stop-And-Frisk Appeals

The de Blasio administration on Wednesday formally dropped New York City’s appeal of rulings in lawsuits involving the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk tactics.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 5, 2014

Man who Recorded NYPD Choke Hold Incident Arrested for Gun Charge

Ramsey Orta, 22, is charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Police said Orta had a previous weapon conviction that prohibited him from possessing a firearm. He is due in court this month on robbery charges stemming from a May arrest and an assault charge from an arrest July 14, according to court records.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 29, 2014

Video: NYPD Detective Saved by Vest During Greenwich Village Shootout with Fugitive

When NYPD Det. Mario Muniz, 45, was hit in the upper-right chest by one of California child molestation suspect Richard Thomas Mozdir's bullets yesterday during a Greenwich Village shootout, it was stopped by his bullet-resistant vest.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 27, 2014

Spiderman Punches NYPD Officer in Times Square

A 25-year-old man dressed as Spiderman allegedly struck an officer attempting to arrest him for causing a disturbance over payment for a photograph.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 24, 2014

NYPD May Issue More TASERs in Use of Force Changes

A senior NYPD official said one change under discussion was the expanded use of Taser stun guns, which are available to a small number of New York officers but have been controversial there and elsewhere because of the risk they can pose to people with heart problems and other medical issues

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 23, 2014

NYPD Orders New Training in Use of Force

Every New York Police Department officer will be retrained in the use of force following the death of a Staten Island man after an officer subdued him with an apparent chokehold, Commissioner William Bratton said Tuesday.

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Articlesby Kristine Meldrum DenholmJuly 20, 2014

Williamsburg: Policing Where the Present Meets the Past

A former NYPD cop, Hamilton moved to this quiet Tidewater community more than 15 years ago after her child waited for a bus in New York next to a dead body.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 18, 2014

Video: Asthmatic Man Dies After NYPD Officer Uses Chokehold on Him

“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, repeatedly screamed after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he balked at being handcuffed.

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