NEW YORK — Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick. Police in New York City leave the items unattended – on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars – and wait to see if someone grabs [...]
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Take the bait? NYPD anti-theft tactics criticized
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Lawmakers reach deal for NYPD inspector general
By admin on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 | Comments Off
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department would get a new watchdog under a deal city lawmakers reached Tuesday, propelling a plan galvanized by outrage over its extensive use of the tactic known as stop and frisk and its widespread spying on Muslims. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the pact on installing an [...]
Read More...NYPD officers shot, wounded in separate incidents
By admin on Friday, January 4th, 2013 | Comments Off
3 New York Police Department officers were wounded in two separate shooting incidents. USATODAY.com Feed
Read More...NYPD officers shot in separate incidents
By admin on Friday, January 4th, 2013 | Comments Off
NEW YORK — Three New York City police officers were recovering Friday, hours after being shot in separate incidents that left one suspect dead and four under arrest. The shootings occurred in a one-hour span Thursday night. Off-duty Police Officer Juan Pichardo was shot in the thigh at his family’s Bronx car dealership by one [...]
Read More...Woman behind kind NYPD officer photo appears on ‘Today’
By admin on Friday, November 30th, 2012 | Comments Off
Woman who took photo of NYPD officer giving homeless man a new pair of boots tells story. USATODAY.com Feed
Read More...NYPD officer’s kindness sparks online sensation
By admin on Thursday, November 29th, 2012 | Comments Off
NEW YORK — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation. Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change in [...]
Read More...NYPD searching for man in shopkeeper shootings
By admin on Monday, November 19th, 2012 | Comments Off
NEW YORK — Detectives on Monday searched for a balding, middle-aged man seen wearing an overcoat and carrying a duffel bag after a shopkeeper was shot dead as investigators tried to figure out whether a violent armed robber or a serial killer had slain three business owners in the past four months. Police Commissioner Raymond [...]
Read More...NYPD confirms: All bystanders hit by police bullets
By admin on Sunday, August 26th, 2012 | Comments Off
New York police say ballistics evidence shows all nine people wounded in a confrontation outside the Empire State Building were struck by bullets fired by the two officers. NBCNews.com: US news
Read More...NYPD gunfire injures 9 at Empire State Building
By admin on Sunday, August 26th, 2012 | Comments Off
NEW YORK — The veteran patrolmen who opened fire on a gunman outside the Empire State Building had only an instant to react when he whirled around and pointed a .45-caliber pistol at them as they approached him from behind on a busy sidewalk. Officer Craig Matthews shot seven times, and Officer Robert Sinishtaj fired [...]
Read More...NYPD: Spying on Muslims produced no leads, no investigations
By admin on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off
In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday. NBCNews.com: US news
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