
A New York Police Department officer survived a point-blank gunshot to chest that was stopped by his ballistic vest during a foot pursuit early Thursday. Officer Brian Groves was shot at about 3:30 a.m. while chasing a suspect down the stairwell inside the Seward Park Housing Facility projects in Manhattan.
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The city has entered into a preliminary agreement to purchase Ford's P.I. sedan or Ford's P.I. Utility for patrol officers. The NYPD's Support Services Bureau has begun developing a contract to purchase the vehicles from a New York dealer.
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The family of a fugitive who was shot and killed by New York Police Department officers after a three-mile pursuit through the Bronx has accused the department of causing his wrongful death.
Read More →A former New York City police officer who was convicted in March of sexually attacking a schoolteacher at gunpoint in Upper Manhattan pleaded guilty on Thursday to rape counts that were left unresolved by a jury.
Read More →The New York City police officer pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal police shooting of a teenager in his bathroom. NYPD Officer Richard Haste said today he had "no choice" but to fire the single bullet that killed Ramarley Graham in his Bronx home.
Read More →A police recruit who was rejected by the NYPD after agreeing that gays "should be locked up" has sued the department claiming discrimination.
Read More →Officer Richard Haste faces charges relating to his shooting of Ramarley Graham, an 18-year-old who was killed with a single shot in the bathroom of his Bronx home.
Read More →A Hasidic Jewish NYPD cadet said he plans to sue the agency, after he was dismissed because he refused to trim his beard. The NYPD asked Fishel Litzman, 38, to leave the academy on Friday.
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New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo will ask the legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana to reduce the number of "stop and frisk" encounters between officers and subjects, he announced today.
Read More →Officers plunged into the Hudson River Saturday to retrieve one woman and pulled another to safety from the edge of a high-rise roof where she was perched with a knife in a day of dramatic rescues for the New York Police Department.
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