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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

NYPD Kills Active Shooter at Empire State Building, 2 Dead, 9 Wounded

The streets around the iconic midtown building were choked with emergency vehicles, and witnesses reported bloody victims calling for help after the shooter squeezed off at least a dozen shots.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

NYPD Sought Cellphones for Video of Times Square Shooting

Dozens of bystanders grabbed their cellphones and hit the record button as a knife-wielding man skipped backward through Times Square on Aug. 11. Some witnesses, holding their cellphones above their heads to capture the action, ran alongside police officers as they pursued the man down Seventh Avenue with guns drawn.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 21, 2012

NYPD: Muslim Spying Generated No Leads

In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 21, 2012

Video: NYPD Cop To Sue Ferrari Driver Over Crushed Foot

A New York City police officer plans to sue a reality TV star's boyfriend who drove his Ferrari over the officer's foot while he was issuing a citation to the man.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 20, 2012

Feds Name NYPD Deputy Chief, Iowa Sheriff To Broadband Panel

A New York City deputy chief and Iowa sheriff will join a 15-member panel that will establish a nationwide broadband network for public safety, acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced Monday.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 17, 2012

NYPD, Microsoft Develop Crime-Fighting Surveillance System

The New York Police Department has implemented a Microsoft video surveillance software platform that analyzes real-time crime data to thwart terrorist threats.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2012

Official: Let N.Y.P.D. Sikhs Wear Turbans

New York City Comptroller John Liu has urged Mayor Bloomberg to modify the New York Police Department's dress code to permit Sikh officers to wear their religious articles of faith in uniform.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 13, 2012

Times Square Shooting Suspect Threatened Cops In 2008

The man who was fatally shot by New York City police officers after he lunged at them with a knife had threatened officers during a similar incident in 2008, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Monday during a news conference.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 7, 2012

S.F. Mayor Drops Stop-and-Frisk Plan

San Francisco's mayor has dropped plans to implement New York City's stop-and-frisk policy, after community leaders criticized the plan, saying it would lead to racial profiling.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 3, 2012

NYC Won't Defend Sued Officer

New York City has distanced itself from a high-ranking police official accused of firing pepper spray at Occupy Wall Street protesters, taking the unusual step of declining to defend him in a civil lawsuit over the incident.

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