NYPD Launches Full-Scale Investigation Into Theft of Staten Island Mailbox
The NYPD is on the trail of a dastardly mailbox thief in Staten Island.
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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.
The NYPD is on the trail of a dastardly mailbox thief in Staten Island.
New York prosecutors will not file rape charges against Greg Kelly, anchor for Fox 5's Good Day New York and son of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. So, the New York Post has taken that as the all-clear to name the accuser and publish her photo.
New York Police officers continue to interfere with photographers and reporters trying to cover news, and a New York Times photographer who was prevented from shooting an arrest at an Occupy Wall Street rally last weekend said police had reason to hide their actions from the press.
This is just kind of ... weird: Cops in New York are going to have to give up their NYPD T-shirts, coffee mugs, hats, and everything else with "NYPD" on it that's not their actual uniform while worn on duty.
The rape accusation against Greg Kelly, local Fox anchor and son of the New York police commissioner, is getting more complicated with the accuser saying she got pregnant from the alleged attack.
After a probe resulted from reports that the CIA was helping the New York Police Department set up surveillance programs in the Muslim community, the CIA is removing its agent from the NYPD, reports the Associated Press.
The allegations against the Good Day New York co-anchor add to his father's week of bad news.
The fallout from that terrible anti-Muslim police video just got a bit worse today as the NYPD commissioner acknowledges that he agreed to be interviewed for it.
Nicholas K. Peart is a 23-year-old black man living in New York City. He's been stopped and frisked by police at least five times. His account of the corrosive legacy of an invasive police tactic is going viral.
After a morning of protests that focused on a goofy new tactic called squidding, a second Occupy Wall Street action turned tense as police confronted protesters and journalists -- including a New York Times photographer taped in a back-and-forth with a stubborn cop.
At an Occupy Wall Street protest of President Barack Obama's fundraiser in New York on Wednesday, members of the press say police kept them out of an area cordoned off for protesters, in conflict with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent directive that cops not interfere with media.
The FBI declined to take up New York City's investigation of a terrorism suspect because the police department's own informant helped him so much.
The New York Police Department is proud of itself for the arrest of a "lone wolf" terrorism suspect over the weekend, but the timing of the bust and the ambivalence of federal investigators have some suggesting the department had an ulterior PR motive.
The NYPD's treatment of journalists covering its raid on Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday has been criticized not only be news outlets and press watchdog groups but by the top New York City officials.
Sometime around 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, New York City police officers moved in on Zuccotti Park, ejecting Occupy Wall Street protesters and clearing the camp of their tents and belongings
Remember the New York Police Department deputy inspector caught on video pepper spraying calm-looking protesters a week into Occupy Wall Street? Of course you do.
28 arrested in the largest Occupy Wall Street gathering to date
An obscure law from 1845 meant to quell farmer uprisings is proving useful against Anonymous
Plus: Two papers, two perspectives on video of the NYPD suggestively dancing
The agency wants to "make sure we are doing the right thing"
Police confirmed that an agent is teaching officers espionage techniques
The day after Osama bin Laden's death a spike in the NYPD's typical influx of false alarms
NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is not happy about the rumors that Puffy received a police escort to a club in Jersey.
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