The New York police department and city lawyers are feverishly working together to try and cover up a massive ticket writing scheme that has resulted in at least 850,000 "bogus summonses" being issued.
The New York City Council, which so far has largely marched in lockstep with Bill de Blasio, may be setting up a clash with the mayor as it once again proposed to hire 1,000 additional officers for the local police department.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is behind police Commissioner Bill Bratton's plan to train 350 officers in high-tech weaponry to deal with street protests that have swept the city in the last few months.
Protests against Eric Garner's death turn violent along West coast At least two police officers in California have been injured in a protest against the grand jury decision against the New York police officer who killed Eric Garner by holding him in a chokehold.
A NYPD psychologist was charged Friday with attempted murder after she allegedly shot her estranged husband in the head while in their Westchester home.
NY Daily News reports that David Afanador and Tyrane Isaac, two nine-year New York Police Department veteran officers from the 79th Precinct are expected to be arraigned on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at Brooklyn Supreme Court, after being caught on tape beating a black 16-year-old suspect Kahreem Tribble.
On Monday, the New York Police Department announced that its highest-ranking Latino officer, first deputy commissioner Rafael Pineiro, will retire effective Oct. 31, sparking speculation that he is being pushed out of the force.
Gilberto Valle's, a former NYPD officer, 2013 conviction of kidnapping conspiracy was overturned Monday when the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence that Valle planned to actually kill and eat anyone.
Although the New York Police Department (NYPD) announced the disbanding of its controversial Muslim surveillance program last month, a growing number of Latino Muslims living in New York City remain concerned about being watched and harassed by authorities.
The New York City sex industry isn't glamorous. It's dark, seedy, lurid, and the sex work that the women and, to a lesser degree, men engage in carries the risk of danger, disease, sexual violence, and abduction. There aren't many tools that the sexually exploited demographic can use, but one tool that is at their disposal is condoms. With 50 percent of streetwalkers being African American and 25 percent being Latino, and the average age of prostitute in the United States being between the ages of 12-14 years old; it's ethic teenagers who continue to suffer HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases at a high rate -particularly when police confiscate their condoms, a form harassment that's orchestrated in order to prevent sex workers from turning tricks.
