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The trial has yielded troubling testimony about officers "flaking"—planting drugs on subjects to meet arrest quotas and get overtime pay.
Read More →NYPD Det. Rick Lee's skinny ties and professorial look have caught the attention of Occupy Wall Street protesters, as the community relations officer has been working the protests not looking like a stereotypical plainclothes officer.
Read More →A New York City police officer has been charged in a federal civil rights complaint that he allegedly used a racial slur when refering to an African-American suspect he had arrested.
Read More →Attorneys representing the approximately 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been arrested in the past month are demanding that prosecutors dismiss the charges against them. The lawyers are threatening to take all the cases to trial, if charges aren't dropped to further clog an already jammed court system.
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Online social networks are already proving themselves invaluable assets to law enforcement. Websites such as Facebook and MySpace provide suspect leads; communities are alerted to missing children and area threats through law enforcement-generated Twitter feeds and e-mail.
Read More →Investigators with the New York Police Department have been infiltrating Muslim groups at Brooklyn College and other city colleges as part of a broader intelligence-gathering effort to place the Muslim community under greater scrutiny
Read More →The New York Police Department so far has spent almost $2 million, mostly in overtime costs, to patrol lower Manhattan in recent weeks, as Wall Street protesters gear up for another week.
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A quick-handed NYPD sergeant likely saved his own life when he stopped a man's revolver from firing by sticking his right ring finger between the hammer and cylinder.
Read More →Officer Admir Kacamakovic, a seven-year veteran assigned to Brooklyn's 62nd Precinct, has been charged with violating the civil rights of a patron of a bar owned by the officer's cousin.
Read More →The New York Police Department has received a $4.6 million donation from JPMorgan Chase for security upgrades, including new patrol car laptops and security monitoring software for the department's main data center.
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