Joe Lhota may or may not be the wildest and craziest of this year's mayoral candidates. But he does have the brassiest set of balls.

Just days after he described the Port Authority Police -- who lost 37 officers in the World Trade Center terrorist attack -- as nothing more...

Years ago, an old Jewish defense attorney offered a cynical lesson in criminal procedure. "When you got nothing," he said, "cry anti-Semitism."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently tried out his own version of this.

With the NYPD's signature stop and frisk policy crumbling before his eyes, Bloomberg appeared last week before...

He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said what a big boy am I.

What better way for Ray Kelly to capture attention than to announce that the Boston Marathon bombers had planned to drive to New York and detonate their remaining bombs in Times Square.

Somehow, the FBI and the Boston police department, with the help of numerous other Massachusetts and federal law enforcement agencies, were able to kill or capture the suspects in the marathon bombings without the assistance of Ray Kelly and the NYPD.

Kelly announced he had sent two sergeants to Boston...

At least to this reporter, the most intriguing question of the current stop and frisk trial is why Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is not testifying.

Here is the longest-serving and most powerful police commissioner in city history.

Here is his signature policy, which has evolved into the single biggest police...

Is the idea of an inspector general to monitor the NYPD as far-fetched and unworkable as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his claque of supporters claim?

Well, the NYPD had a monitor 20 years ago, although under a different guise. He was a civilian deputy commissioner in charge of the...

A shrewd move by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, appointing Phil Banks, a high-ranking black officer, as the NYPD's chief of department.

Kelly acted amidst an ongoing federal trial to determine whether the practice of stop and frisk -- which Kelly maintains has resulted in record low crime rates -- has...

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is either New York City's greatest hypocrite or its greatest politician.

How else to explain her sudden support of an inspector general to monitor the police department, together with her statement that she would retain Ray Kelly as police commissioner?

"I believe that people can...

So who is Ahmed Ferhani, sentenced last week to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to planning to attack New York City synagogues?

Is he the "lone-wolf" terrorist, whose arrest two years ago made world-wide headlines when at a City Hall news conference in May, 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...

Call it a cri de coeur, a collective cry of the heart, from voices rarely heard -- the city's Muslim community, pushing back for the first time against the NYPD's secret spying on them for the past decade.

Based on interviews with 57 people, their 54-page report, written...

They may have thought themselves gods but they were terribly mortal, consumed by such earthly vanities as ego and ambition.

That's what drove the late Mike McAlary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Daily News columnist of two decades ago.

That's what drove William Bratton, the city's police commissioner when McAlary's shadow filled...

Under investigation by both the FBI and the IRS, Mount Vernon's Mayor Ernie Davis recently fired his police commissioner with no credible public explanation and replaced him with -- of all people -- our old friend, Sir Reginald Ward.

Sir Reginald -- or just plain Reggie, as his friends call...

Two startling verdicts came down last week in two cop-related fatal shootings.

In one, a Brooklyn jury acquitted the getaway driver of a botched robbery that resulted in the killing of NYPD officer Peter Figoski.

The driver, 23-year-old Michael Velez, maintained he had known nothing of the robbery and had...

Almost as chilling as the retribution murders allegedly committed by former Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner are the Internet postings, sympathizing with and supporting him.

In his 15,000-word manifesto, posted on his Facebook page, Dorner named retired LAPD captain and attorney Randal Quan and his family as one...

The NYPD has violated a longstanding court order in its pervasive spying on Muslims and lied about it, according to papers to be filed today in federal court.

"The NYPD has deceived this court and counsel, as well as the public, concerning the character and scope of its activities," according...

Bill Bratton appears to be all over the map these days.

Working in the private sector in New York after leaving the Los Angeles Police Department, he landed a well-publicized consultancy last month with the troubled Oakland Police Department.

He has also been telling mayoral candidates in...

Not only is Raymond W. Kelly the longest-serving police commissioner in city history but he is also, with a 75 percent approval rating, the most popular.

How does he do it?

Credit Paul Browne, Kelly's chief spokesman and longtime factotum, who has been expert both in exaggerating the NYPD's...

Ray Kelly was at his misleading best at the 92nd Street YMHA last week in trashing the Associated Press' Pulitzer prize-winning series about the New York City Police Department's widespread and pervasive spying on Muslims.

"The series of articles, almost 50 articles, was full of misstatements, half-truths," Kelly said....

So there's a deal: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn keeps Ray Kelly as police commissioner if she's elected mayor, according to the NY Post.

Notwithstanding that the accuracy range of any Post story is about 50-50, this one, by reporters Josh Margolin and Dan Mangan, has the ring of truth.

JANUARY. City Council Speaker and mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn, who appeared to favor reappointing Ray Kelly police commissioner, meets with former Police Commissioner Bratton.

Quinn says her meeting with Bratton -- who has also met with her three mayoral rivals to tell them of his availability to return as...