A Midtown NYPD officer was whacked in the head with a butcher knife during a harrowing rush hour scene just steps from Madison Square Garden on Thursday.
Read More →Bratton agreed with Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who recently said, "If we had the gun laws in Chicago that L.A. and New York have we would see our violent crime cut in half."
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The largest union representing New York City police officers has awarded its Man of the Year honor to an outspoken conservative sheriff from Wisconsin.
Read More →A Suffolk County, NY, Police officer was seriously injured after being stabbed in the face Saturday afternoon and the man who stabbed him is in critical condition after being shot by another officer, police said.
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The owners of a home that caught fire in Endicott, NY, Wednesday believe they were targeted because they publicly support law enforcement.
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NYPD officials say the department's new Safariland 6360 ALS gun holster with an automatic locking system is more secure than its previous holster. The department started issuing it to all new recruits in June of 2014. The Safariland 6360 ALS was not in use by the officer who was attacked Tuesday and lost his gun to a suspect who killed an uninvolved bystander.
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A panhandler removed the duty weapon from a New York Police Department officer's holster and used it to fatally shoot a Bronx bodega worker as a late-night dispute over $2 exploded into a deadly street shootout, police said.
Read More →In the heat of battle, training intended to help officers secure their weapons often goes out the window, a police tactics expert and retired NYPD lieutenant says.
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, chief of the nation's largest police department, is quitting his high-profile job, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.
Read More →A New York City street gang member was sentenced to death on Wednesday in the execution-style slayings of two undercover police officers in 2003 — the latest chapter in a case that's seen his original death sentence overturned, his behind-bars affair with a prison guard exposed and the massive cost of his defense questioned.
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