On the sidewalk of a public housing development in Brooklyn, New York notorious for gang violence and drug activity, the words "Fascist pig, go home!" in black spray paint are fading but still legible.
New York City police turned out in their thousands on Sunday for the funeral of the second of two officers murdered last month, but in a sign of persistent tensions with Mayor Bill de Blasio, hundreds turned their backs when he delivered his eulogy.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked off his second term on Thursday, saying he is governing in “troubled times” and that education, the economy and rebuilding public trust in law enforcement would top his agenda over the next four years.
From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his political career on Sunday after a gunman killed two police officers in an attack intended to avenge recent police killings of unarmed black men in the United States.
On December 13, as thousands of protesters mobbed the New York streets, Yuseff Hamm, an NYPD police officer, was monitoring the demonstrations from a mobile command unit near the Brooklyn Bridge. As the protest drew near, Hamm and his fellow officers could hear the chants of the noisy throngs: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”
Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Thursday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
New York's State's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation Tuesday into Macy's Inc. and Barneys New York as black customers complained they were being racially profiled by police after they had made luxury purchases.
Michael Bazerman, an NYPD detective, pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $6,000 from the Manhattan District Office, the site where he headed a wiretap and surveillance squad
More than 250 illegal guns were seized by the NYPD in the largest gun bust in the city's history, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Monday. The guns had been smuggled into New York City from North Carolina and South Carolina between September 2012 and July 2013 through two separate trafficking operation according to a news release from the city's special narcotics prosecutor
New York City is appealing a federal judge's ruling that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program violates the constitutional rights of minorities, according to documents filed in a Manhattan court
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg blasted a federal judge's rebuke of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory, and warning that the decision could instigate a spike in high violent crimes in the city
A federal judge ruled that the New York City Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy violates individuals' constitutional rights because it intentionally discriminates based on race. This marks a significant rebuke to the New York mayor's defense that it is a crime -fighting tool used by police department.
The New York City police temporarily shut down the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday as an abandoned Dodge Durango was spotted on the road. The police were determining whether the vehicle represented a threat, the Associated Press reported. The car without any license plates on the Manhattan-bound lanes, came in around 5:15 p.m. on Monday.
A Columbia University dental student was allegedly raped at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in lower Manhattan after she met Sean Ahearn, and he drugged her with ecstasy.
NYPD Detective Michael Bazerman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with grand larceny and forgery, falsifying $5,800 in invoices. It was reported that Bazerman falsified petty cash reimbursement invoices to the Manhattan District Attorney's office between 2009 and 2011. Bazerman was assigned to the DA's Office's squad at the time.
The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has told investigators that he and his brother planned to bomb Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday, as reported by the New York Daily News."Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor Bloomberg said. The Tsarnaev brothers came up with the plan spontaneously after the Boston bombing, as they talked in an SUV they had carjacked, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The two explosions in Boston drew a swift response from the New York Police Department, as they began to mobilize their anti-terror units, bomb squads and additional uniformed presence to key New York City landmarks and buildings.
Several Jewish homes in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York had their mezuzahs burned on Monday and Tuesday. The attacks were investigated by the New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Department. Police reported that suspect, Rubin Ubiles, is wanted for setting fire to 11 mezuzahs inside an apartment complex. An additional mezuzah in another apartment doorway in an adjacent building across the street was burned again Tuesday.
Algerian immigrant Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to a plot to blow up New York City synagogues, has been sentenced to 10 years in prioson He pleaded guilty in December to terror related and hate crime charges.
