Commissioner Bratton also revealed that the department's preparedness comes from the support of two new tactical units; a 550 person Critical Response Command and a similarly trained 800 officer unit.
On April 6, 2014, Dockery set fire to a mattress in his Coney Island apartment to pass the time while he waited for family who lived in the building. He was 16 at the time of the crime.
Kenneth Ramsuer, Glenn Grays' lawyer, said the confrontation shook Grays to his core and he's been unable to return to work.
One brief moment in time would prove fatal for the Staten Island teen, who family and friends lovingly called, "Poppa Jawn."
Forty-one-year-old Aitabdel Salem, a native of Algeria, spent five months on New York's Rikers Island because, uhm, officials failed to tell him that bail was set at $2.
The high school student was shot twice — once in each bicep — with one of the bullets punching through her arm and into her chest.
More than eight months after Gabay's death, it's unclear what led police to the alleged gunman.
The police arrested a Bronx man accused of wheeling his wife's corpse on a dolly. He is charged with second-degree murder.
ANew York police officer on Friday was found guilty of misdemeanor assault charges after “gratuitously” stomping on the head of a suspect nearly two years ago, reports the New York Daily News. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus said the officer, Joel Edouard, 37, “let down his fellow officers by losing his composure in an […]
A Brooklyn judge on Tuesday reduced ex-New York Police Department officer Peter Liang's conviction in the death of Akai Gurley in a darkened public housing stairwell, arguing that the rookie officer never intended to kill the unarmed man in 2014, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Claude Ruffin, 62, says officers came into his room at a Long Island City shelter on New Year's Eve, grabbed him and walked him outside. When the veteran pulled his arm away from one of the cops, a struggle ensued. It wasn't until Ruffin felt one of the cop's guns that he realized he was dealing with law enforcement.
An autopsy showed Gray was shot seven times with three bullets entering his back, indicating he might have been running from the police, not facing them.
