Although acceptance of LGBT Americans is at an all-time high, the relationship between the NYPD and this community remains fraught. An inspector general in New York can help.
For two weeks, I have sat in the lower Manhattan 15th floor courtroom of Federal Judge Shira Scheindin stunned at the testimony I was listening to with regards to "Stop and Frisk."
NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department has begun policing how its officers use Facebook, Twitter and other social media. An internal order made p...
New York police officers have started working with Apple to combat a crime that is sweeping the country: theft of iPhones and iPads. Nationwide, ma...
NEW YORK -- The New York City Police Department likely turned a blind eye to violations of the constitutional rights of thousands of individuals detai...
NEW YORK -- A disgraced New York politician will spend two years in prison for using taxpayer money to fund his 2006 campaign. Queens Democrat Hiram ...
This story is part of an ongoing series, "American Heroes," which recognizes extraordinary actions beyond the call of duty by our military members, po...
Some might view the job of the NYPD's deputy commissioner of Public Information as a stepping stone to fame and fortune.
Given the expanding power of the NYPD, it was interesting to hear members of the Bloomberg administration articulate their opposition to the Community Safety Act, legislation seeking to increase transparency and oversight.
A New York City pedestrian who was struck and injured by a police car was sent a sorry apology from the New York Police Department. Jesse Zorski, a...
The NYPD is watching us, but who's watching the NYPD? Currently the FBI, CIA and the Los Angeles Police Department have an Inspector General, so why can't the New York Police Department?
We need to answer the broader questions about increasing equality and opportunity for all to ensure NYC's successful future as a city worthy of being upheld as a model metropolis. We must demand police reform now to create a better present.
A Brooklyn bar has a bone to pick with the New York Police Department. Cops led by the commanding officer of the local precinct raided Greenpoint ...
When the NYPD protects and serves its reputation for reducing crime, it does not protect and serve the people of New York; these are conflicting priorities.
The NYPD appears to assume that every young man in a specific neighborhood is a criminal, acts on that assumption with frequent shakedowns and then appears to be confounded when the community does not welcome them.
Although there is no popular mandate for unsubstantiated and illegal arrests, discriminatory stops, frisks and searches, "flaking," murder and gun sales, these actions continue to describe the New York City Police Department.
NEW YORK -- New York officials have found suspicious wires in a bathroom onboard a flight that was returned to Kennedy International airport, but no e...
How far have we come on the road from slavery to freedom isn't just a rhetorical question 150 years later. A people who don't know their history are more likely to repeat it. The resurgence of hate crimes and emergence of mass incarceration of males of color remind us that freedom requires constant vigilance and justice needs a fire that burns in all of us. I believe that we are in the second post Reconstruction era. Although some forms of continuing racial intolerance are overt, some forms are subtle, covert, technical, political, and very polite. Wrapped up in new euphemisms, better etiquette and clever political rhetoric, it's still, as Frederick Douglass warned, the same old snake. Let's call it out systematically, oppose it nonviolently, and move forward on becoming a free and just nation.
The New York Police Department is drawing fire for saying that stories of multiple journalist arrests during the height of the Occupy Wall Street prot...
WASHINGTON — One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing th...
A major coalition of advocacy groups is launching an effort to end New York's arrests of individuals for possessing small amounts of marijuana in publ...
Long before a single Zuccotti protestor waving a cardboard sign decorated with protest art was ever arrested, Robert Lederman had been there, done that.
Is Ray Lewis a renegade, or does he embody the characteristics of the "true American" that people think about when we picture "common" people in history who have stood up against powerful forces?
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CARMEL, N.Y. — The suburban New York home where an intense early morning blaze killed a police captain, his wife and daughters on Tuesday had mu...
