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NYPD Officer Resigns After Refusing to Enter Ax Murder Scene

Officer Sean Doohan stepped down on April 27, less than a week after he and fellow Officer Mary Sobieski were suspended for failure to take appropriate action, officials told the New York Post.

May 3, 2019

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NYPD Officer Dies in Vehicle Collision En Route to Work

An off-duty officer with the New York Police Department died in a crash with a minivan in Nassau County on Wednesday.

May 2, 2019

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Police Identify Man Who Broke NYPD Officer's Leg During Pursuit

Police in New York are looking for a 48-year-old man—identified as Lincoln George—who reportedly broke an officer's leg before fleeing on foot.

May 2, 2019

Technology

NYPD Testing Virtual Reality-Based Training

The NYPD is testing a virtual reality scenario-based training system. About 200 officers participated in the training program, which was conducted earlier this month at a state-of-the-art facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

April 30, 2019

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New York Officer Makes Big Drug Bust at Traffic Stop

An officer with the Westchester County (NY) Police Department discovered a large haul of marijuana during a traffic stop on Wednesday, seizing about 54 pounds of the drug and arresting a Boston man for Criminal Possession of Marijuana.

April 25, 2019

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NY Cop Killer Gets Life for Trooper's Murder

Two consecutive life-without-parole sentences were handed down in Jefferson County Court Tuesday afternoon for the murders of his wife, Nichole Walters, and state Trooper Joel Davis at the Walters' home in July 2017.

April 24, 2019

Technology

NYPD Develops AI Analytics Tool for Fighting Crime

Patternizr is an algorithmic machine-learning software that sifts through police data to find patterns and connect similar crimes. It has been in use by NYPD since December 2016, but its existence was first disclosed by the department this month.

April 24, 2019

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Video: NYPD Officer Wounded in Gunfight Leaves Hospital to Applause from Fellow Officers

A plainclothes officer with the New York Police Department was wounded in a gunfight that left the assailant dead on Thursday afternoon.

April 19, 2019

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New York Officer Injured During Drug Arrest at Train Station

An officer with the New Rochelle (NY) Police Department was injured during an arrest of a suspected drug dealer and his alleged customer on a train station platform.

April 18, 2019

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New York Police Shoot, Kill Knife-Wielding Man

According to Fox News, an officer first gave verbal commands to get the man—identified as 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick—to drop his weapons, and then when the subject didn't comply, deployed a TASER on him. The subject went to the ground but did not disarm himself of his weapons. As officers closed in to disarm the subject, he jumped to his feet and charged at the officers.

April 16, 2019

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New York Department Adding Real-Time Intelligence Center

The Syracuse (NY) Police Department is adding a new high-tech capability to monitor and more quickly respond to crimes in progress.

April 12, 2019

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New York Agency Makes Big Narcotics Seizure

The agency posted a picture of the haul on Facebook, with the caption, "Who's smiling now? It sure isn't the 11 drug dealers who were peddling heroin in Mount Vernon and environs with a red smiley face stamped on their envelopes."

April 12, 2019