For yet a third time, a federal judge has ordered the NYPD to release 2,000 pages of secret documents, showing how it spied on groups planning legal protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.

District Judge Richard Sullivan last week affirmed a 2008 order by...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his wife Veronica must be feeling pretty smug. They have forced out the Police Foundation's longtime and conscientious executive director Pamela Delaney.

Kelly had groused that Delaney was earning too much money, smarting that her $214,680 salary topped his by almost $2,000.

Veronica...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's store-bought third term has not yet begun yet he has picked a fight with someone no one in his right mind wants to fight: outgoing Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.

Supposedly, the fight is over money.

Why did the mayor -- who prides himself on...

With crime at historic lows and the police commissioner enjoying high public approval, one might think the NYPD would extend basic respect to police reporters -- especially one from a newspaper that lauds the department and is loath to criticize it.

Think again.

In an ugly confrontation 10...

So Rudy Giuliani is apparently not running for governor and is dithering about whether to try for the Senate.

We've lived through this melodrama before.

A decade ago, after months of indecision following his battle with prostate cancer and his split from wife Donna Hanover, he backed out...

Perhaps we should be relieved the feds are handling the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and his four alleged accomplices.

If left to the locals, we might have a lapse like City Hall's invitation to a Brooklyn imam linked to the first World Trade Center...

Watching Bernie Kerik weep while admitting he was a crook, this reporter could not help recalling past conversations with Judith Regan, his editor, publisher and former lover.

While some may feel sympathy towards him - [Even federal judge Stephen Robinson, who chucked him into jail last month, said he...

To see Bernard Kerik transformed into a inmate inside a White Plains courtroom, hands shaking as he silently removed his tie, his jewelry and his belt sent chills down the spine of this reporter, as it would anyone who has followed the world of the New York City Police Department.

The Daily News seems unable physically, emotionally and intellectually to place blame where it belongs when something goes wrong inside the NYPD.

Take its editorial last week, headlined, "Thrown to the wolves," about a police lieutenant who committed suicide after top police officials publicly, and unfairly, ostracized him...

The widow of an Emergency Service lieutenant who killed himself a year ago is blaming the tragedy on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, his spokesman Paul Browne and other unnamed top brass.

Lieutenant Michael Pigott's widow has turned her grief into a damning portrait of cowardly police higher-ups, turning their...

No one in New York City, and arguably in the nation, has done more to combat terrorism than Ray Kelly.

Since returning as New York City Police Commissioner four months after the 9/11 attacks, he has made fighting terrorism his mission, creating a Counter-Terrorism Division, revamping the department's Intelligence...

The NYPD's so-called Intelligence Division apparently didn't live up to its name, according to Justice Department documents stemming from the arrest of three terror suspects.

In fact, the documents indicate that Deputy Commissioner David Cohen and his subordinates at Intel were clueless.

Cohen, the former CIA honcho, and...

Whenever the Times, the News and the Post gang up to endorse the same policy or political candidate, something is amiss.

That's what happened when Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided he wanted to revoke the two-term limits law. He first visited the Times, the News and the Post, whose owners...

Back in 1993, during his first term as police commissioner, Ray Kelly bought his suits off the rack from wholesaler Carmine Fabrizio.

Since returning as commissioner in 2002, Kelly prefers custom-made suits. His tailor is Martin Greenfield, who was also the tailor for Kelly's rival and...

Apparently unhappy with the legal advice he has been getting, Ray Kelly has hired himself a new $165,000 attorney and you, the taxpayers, will be paying for her.

She is Katherine Ann Lemire, who was a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney office. She worked in the Public Corruption...

You might think that with the possibility of about 150 years in prison, Bernie Kerik would spend the months before his October federal trial keeping his yap shut.

You might think that in bracing for his trial -- which is certain to expose the details behind his 15-count...

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spokesman Al O'Leary swore up and down last week, as well as forward, backward and sideways, that the PBA's plan next month to name former police commissioner Bill Bratton its Man of the Year signaled no disrespect to Bratton's longtime rival, current police commissioner Ray Kelly.

It's proving to be quite a homecoming for Bill Bratton.

Not only did he receive national headlines over retiring as chief of the Los Angeles police department and returning to New York to head a private security firm but he is to be honored next month as the Patrolmen's...

More than symbolism is involved in last week's transfer -- on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's order -- of reporters from the second-floor warren inside Police Plaza, known as The Shack.

Although reporters will remain just down the hall in another office, the move reflects a further weakening of their adversarial...

There is no shortage of egos when it comes to commanding tens of thousands as police commissioner of New York City.

And there is no shortage of sycophants trumpeting commissioners' accomplishments.

When William Bratton served as P.C., it was difficult to imagine anyone with a higher opinion of Bratton than...