New York City isn't necessarily known to be home to the country's friendliest police force, but the NYPD's latest tactics for cutting down on petty theft sound downright mean.
In the dramatic conclusion of a trial as memorable for its being sickening as the kind of precedent it may set about fantasies of murder without follow-through, the New York City "Cannibal Cop" just got eaten by a federal jury.
If someone on the Internet told you they had experience jumping off bridges and surviving, would you believe that person? If someone on the Internet told you they had experience cooking and eating humans, would you believe that person?
Hold on to your riot gear, ladies and gentlemen, because police in New York City are saying that Occupy Wall Street activists deserve credit for helping keep the city safe after Hurricane Sandy.
It may be a small — or, rather, nonexistent — number, but it's a heartening statistic: there were no shootings, stabbings, slashings, or murders in New York City between around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night and 11:20 a.m. Tuesday morning, the NYPD said.
In order to convince a judge to deny Valle his bail request in court Tuesday, prosecutors revealed that NYPD cop Gilberto Valle had been planning way in advance for a Thanksgiving meal of "girl meat.""
This disturbing story turns the term "maneater" on its head in a very literal way: A NYPD cop has been charged in a plot to kidnap, cook, and eat women, Tom Hays of the Associated Press reports.
A teenage spy for the New York Police Department says he was under orders to "create and capture" terrorist suspects by befriending fellow Muslims and "baiting" them with talk about jihad.
Compared to the protests at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Monday's one-year anniversary action in New York's financial district is small, but the arrest count is comparatively high.
It's official. The NYPD have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson.
Late last night the NYPD released graphic security camera footage of their confrontation with Jeffrey Johnson in front of the Empire State Building.
The most disturbing detail about Friday's fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan is the fact that the wounded included bystanders shot by police, and the latest news suggests stray police bullets may account for "most or all" of those wounded.
OK, so the New York Police Department's potentially civil-rights-violating program of spying on Muslims didn't generate any terrorism leads, the deputy chief who ran it testified in June, but it did have some perks.
Despite all the controversy surrounding NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk, just under half of New Yorkers think the tactic is “acceptable to make New York City safer,” a new poll from The New York Times finds, but they are matched by another 45 percent who think it's "excessive."
It was the specificity of the threats that made New York police lean on Twitter to turn over the identifying details of a user who said he wanted to shoot up the Longacre Theater, the location where Mike Tyson's one-man show is playing.
Robert Stolarik, a New York Times freelance photographer whose clashes with police became part of the narrative of Occupy Wall Street was arrested while on assignment for the paper in the Bronx over the weekend, apparently for getting too close to an arrest in progress.
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When a New Jersey building super spotted an apartment lacking in furniture and clothing but filled with surveillance equipment and Muslim literature, he assumed it was a terrorist hideout, but what he had discovered was a New York police safe house.
New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg says we'll never, ever know how many terrorist plots the New York Police Department actually stopped because the number could be between 1 and 100.
The NYPD is held up as a sophisticated counterterrorism operation, with media and political figures citing 14 attacks prevented or stopped. But a ProPublica investigation finds that the number is inflated.
Amid recent noise about New York City's controversial "stop and frisk" policy, Reuters had done a deep dive into five years of worth of police data to see where (and to whom) the vast majority of searches take place.
There appears to be something of a legal resolution in the controversial case of former NYPD officer Michael Pena, who was convicted of predatory sexual assault for oral and anal sodomy but not rape in May.
Nothing ruins your night out quite like an open-container ticket, but if one Brooklyn judge gets his way, citations for drinking in public will become almost impossible to issue.
Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik's social calendar is obviously a lot clearer now that he's in prison, but he still has to juggle people.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be amended in a speech on Sunday.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he wants to stop police from arresting people for possessing small amounts of marijuana, a plan that won't sit will with New York City's mayor.
New York is expected to arraign the first legitimate suspect in the 33-year-old disappearance of Etan Patz as early as Friday, but from the facts made public by both police and reporters, there's as much reason to doubt they've got the right man as to believe it.
After a harsh rebuke from a federal judge who green-lit a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department over its stop-and-frisk tactics, police commissioner Ray Kelly said the program was being reevaluated, with more internal oversight and training.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department can become a class action suit, possibly creating a class of potential victims in hundreds of thousands.
New York City police officers stopped and questioned more than 200,000 people in the just the first three months of 2012, setting up a record pace for much criticized tactic.
The New York Post and the Daily News devote their front pages to the story of Michael Pena, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison yesterday on three counts of predatory sexual assault.
Former NYPD officer Michael Pena was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison Monday, after being convicted in March on three counts of predatory sexual assault.
The New York Post's editorial about the Associated Press's Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the NYPD spying on Muslims is angry even for a paper that employs Andrea Peyser.
Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics too heavily against the city's minorities.
We're not here to pass judgment on why you wound up in police custody, but it may happen, and you should know how to comport yourself while getting arrested and once you're in a holding cell.
After a compelling, stark cover Thursday asking the question "What Does a Woman Have to Do to Prove She Was Raped?" the Daily News puts forth what they call the shocking answer on Friday's cover, along with the word "Rage!" in giant type.
For the second time in less than a year, a New York City cop faced rape charges, and while a jury convicted Michael Pena on Tuesday of the most serious sexual assault counts, it got hung on rape charges Wednesday and the judge officially declared a mistrial.
Working for the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division must be a sweet gig, as they get to travel to places like New Orleans to infiltrate activist groups there.
The family of Trayvon Martin joined thousands of demonstrators, who teamed up with Occupy Wall Street, to march across New York City last night to protest the shooting death of the Florida teenager.
An Occupy Wall Street activist accused of elbowing a New York City cop over the weekend walked free on Monday when a judge denied prosecutors' request for $20,000 bail in an apparent rebuke against the police protest crackdown on Saturday.
Want another sign that the New York Police Department was very explicitly spying on Muslims, on the basis of their religion alone? In the latest files unearthed yet again by the Associated Press, the NYPD kind of incriminates itself.
It's not every day that a married "Ugg-wearing" soccer mom with four kids gets busted for operating a prostitution ring out of an apartment on East 78th Street. Thus, New York Post editors are making the most of it, with an array of porny stock photos and puns.
Last August, the Associated Press launched a series detailing how the New York Police Department has extensively investigated Muslims in New York and other states. ProPublica's Justin Elliott spoke to Faiza Patel to get a better understanding of the rules governing the NYPD.
The Associated Press reports that the New York Police Departments's controversial program to monitor Muslim neighborhoods and organizations was funded, at least in part, by White House grants meant to pay for the drug war.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
In case there was any doubt: Yes, the New York police read blog comments and they will bust you for making threats on them, as they did a Gothamist commenter this week.
At this point, it's not much of a surprise that police from New York spied on Muslims, whether it's in the city, on surrounding college campuses, or, as in the Associated Press's latest report, cities all around New York.
Following this morning's report that the NYPD was snooping on Muslim students, Rutgers has released a statement distancing itself from the NYPD's unsanctioned spying.
When the New York Police Department was doing some spying on Muslim students outside the city (that's a thing it does, we learned from the Associated Press on Monday), an apartment officers used to spy on Rutgers students got a visit from the FBI on a report that it was a terrorist cell itself.
In another bit of negative Ray Kelly-related news that doesn't involve Islamophobia, the New York Police Department has announced a record number of on-the-street "stop-and-frisks" in 2011 with the overwhelming majority of them for black and hispanic males.
One rape allegation and a two-week hiatus later, police commissioner scion and local television host Greg Kelly was back on air wishing New Yorkers a good day -- without directly telling viewers why he'd left.
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