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Four decades ago, a lowly postal worker from Yonkers held all of New York City in the grip of terror, carrying out a deadly string of late-night shootings that killed six and injured seven, triggerin…
Nearly four decades later, we rounded up some less familiar details about the case: The news media called the gunman the .44-caliber killer — for his weapon of choice — until he left a note at the si…
The NYPD is notorious for flouting the New York State Freedom of Information Law for even the most routine requests about police activity, contracts, and policies. Regarding surveillance technology, …
A police officer was fatally shot in the head while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx early Wednesday, according to law enforcement sources. The officer has been identified as 48-year-old moth…
Rochester reporter and author Gary Craig, on his new book "Seven Million" -- about a Brink's heist that involved a former IRA prisoner, a Catholic priest, an Irish prizefighter, and ske…
Gabe Pressman, the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV and the indefatigable dean of New York’s television reporters, who chased breaking news, interviewed countless celebrities and covered the hoopla o…
Earlier today journalist Matthew Chayes reported that NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller called the department “the most transparent municipal police department in the world” in testimony before Ne…
Top-ranking members of the Lucchese crime family – including ruling boss Matthew Madonna and his second-in-command Steven Crea Sr. – were busted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges, including m…
How should we recognize Oscar Lopez Rivera, formerly one of the leaders of the FALN a seditious marxist paramilitary group responsible for over 130 bomb attacks on the United States in the name of Pu…
Since 2016, New York motorists are being forced asked to let the police spy on their cellphones for a minimum of 90 days. In Nassau County, motorists are asked, wink, wink to pay hundreds of dollars …
Anthony D. Weiner, the former Democratic congressman whose sexting scandals ended his political career and embroiled him in a tumultuous F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton before the election, p…
RESEARCHERS AT GEORGETOWN University law school filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the New York City Police Department today for the agency’s refusal to disclose documents about its longs…
In just a few days, during April 24-26th, Operation Gotham Shield will commence. It is a tabletop, joint agency exercise involving FEMA, Homeland Security and a myriad of law enforcement and militar…
A vote on whether to approve a proposal that would allow familial DNA searching in certain criminal cases has been delayed by New York state’s Forensic Science Committee. The controversial proposal h…
The NYPD’s proposed rules on officers using body cameras, released Friday, quickly ran into a stiff head wind from some police unions that threatened imminent legal action to stop their implementatio…
The objective is to compel the good people within the NYPD who were scheduled to have a press conference regarding evidence of crimes against children on Anthony Weiner's computer, but were silen…
The New York Times has been examining problems at Rikers Island, as well as the New York City Correction Department, which oversees it. Here’s what you need to know. Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared…
Undercover officers in the New York police department infiltrated small groups of Black Lives Matter activists and gained access to their text messages, according to newly released NYPD documents obt…
The NYPD alerts federal immigration agents to the Criminal Court appearances of immigrants facing deportation, the Daily News has learned. As a “sanctuary city,” the city currently only complies with…
Jimmy Breslin, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit, d…
