NYPD
Top Categories
Thursday’s Headlines: Letitia James Calls for NYPD Reform Edition
The state attorney general says the NYPD needs to be reformed. Meanwhile, the NYPD is still fighting to be able to arrest people aggressively. Plus all the other news.
July 9, 2020
Protection Racket: Columbus Has Friends at 1 Police Plaza
This is not the kind of bust cops usually deal with.
July 8, 2020
Bonus Roundy Cartoon: The NYPD is Lying to Us About Chokehold Bill
Editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy is sick of the NYPD's accepted narratives and convenient lies.
July 8, 2020
Tuesday’s Headlines: Terence Monahan Must Go Edition
The NYPD's chief of department said some seriously inflammatory stuff yesterday. But he can't be fired because ... de Blasio.
July 7, 2020
Op-Ed: A ‘Modest Proposal’: City Council Control of the NYPD
The mayor will never cross his police commissioner. What if we gave the cops a different boss?
July 7, 2020
A MONUMENT TO WASTE: The NYPD Has Two Cops Protecting a Columbus Statue 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
Two officers from the 114th Precinct are guarding a statue of Christopher Columbus all day and all night.
July 7, 2020
A Round and a Roundy: So What Do Cops Do All Day?
Our editorial cartoonist, Bill Roundy, pokes fun at the notion of a car-based security force (one that collects about $700 million in overtime every year).
July 6, 2020
Pedestrian Killed in Three-Car Crash — Speeding Driver Charged
A Brooklyn woman doing nothing but walking near her Midwood home was struck and killed on Sunday night after a speeding driver ran a red light and crashed into another car that went careening into the victim, police said.
July 6, 2020
I Was Cursed by a Cop for Fixing the Second Avenue Bike Lane!
The officer, who was directing traffic to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel at around 7 a.m., provided a textbook example of NYPD personnel escalating a situation.
July 3, 2020
Mayor to Streetsblog: No, I Have Not Fired Any Bad Cops Yet
Mayor de Blasio on Thursday said that no bad cops had yet been fired since he promised, almost exactly a month ago to fire "anybody who should not be a police officer."
July 2, 2020