Ny Crime

Defending Stop-And-Frisk, Bloomberg Slams Philadelphia's Crime Rate

Posted 05.25.2012

Mayor Bloomberg does not have kind words for the City of Brotherly Love. Responding to a New York Times editorial suggesting the NYPD fix stop-and-...

UPDATE: Artist Released For Plastic Bag Bomb Scare

Posted 05.23.2012

The artist arrested for a causing a scare with his "I Love New York" public art display was released from jail by a Brooklyn judge on Wednesday. T...

Husband Allegedly Attacks Wife's Head With Meat Cleaver

Posted 05.23.2012

A mentally ill Queens man allegedly hacked his wife with a meat cleaver early Wednesday morning, police sources tell ABC. Liu Huizhen, 52, is in c...

10 More Retirees Charged In LIRR Pension Fraud

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.22.2012

NEW YORK — Railroad retirees who faked disability claims in order to get more lucrative pensions from the country's second-largest commuter rail...

Sushi Chef Convicted Of Murdering His Father

Posted 05.22.2012

An Upper West Side sushi chef was convicted Monday of brutally murdering his father at the dinner table in 2010, The Associated Press reports. 33-...

NYPD Arrests 'The Ghost'

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.18.2012

NEW YORK -- A notorious drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and was so good at hiding his whereabouts that he was kno...

Off-Duty Cop Arrested At Citi Field For Trying To Grab A Better Seat

Posted 05.17.2012

The next time you're at a ball game and thinking of surreptitiously grabbing a vacant seat rows ahead, remember the tale of NYPD officer Eduardo Corne...

Stop and Frisk: Two Inconvenient Truths

Tom Allon | Posted 05.16.2012

Tom Allon

Stop and frisk must continue as a tool for the NYPD. It's time we had an honest appraisal: stop and frisk is saving minority men's lives. But jobs and education is a better way to save them. That work must begin now.

Stop-And-Frisk Activist Jailed For Calling Judge A 'White Racist Pig'

Posted 05.16.2012

An activist's court appearance to deal with an arrest stemming from an October stop-and-frisk rally led by Professor Cornel West, landed her in jail f...

PHOTOS: New Pics Of 'Well-Dressed Groper' Who's Still At Large

Posted 05.11.2012

The NYPD has released new photos of the "well-dressed groper" who remains at large after a man was falsely accused and cleared of all charges linking ...

Two Dead In Apparent Murder Suicide Near JFK

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

NEW YORK -- Police say an argument between two Florida men in a New York City hotel turned fatal when one pulled out a gun and shot the other, then ap...

Judge Scolds Anna Gristina For Requesting To Change Lawyers A Third Time

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.10.2012

NEW YORK -- Only three months into her case, a suburban mother accused of running a multimillion-dollar Manhattan escort service is on her fourth set ...

Man Steals Manhole Covers To Pay For Drugs

Posted 05.10.2012

A man was arrested on Wednesday for his connection to the disappearance of several manhole covers across the city, and confessed he stole the covers i...

Top New York Times Editor Targeted With Anthrax Swastika Hoax

Posted 05.10.2012

Assistant Managing Editor of The New York Times Susan Chira received an envelope bearing a swastika sticker with skulls and bones labeled "weaponized ...

Disturbing Photos Expose Violence In Rikers Island

Village Voice | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: NY Crime, New York News

The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system. These photographs--graphically showing knife wounds and beating i...

Superintendent From Hell To Pay $2 Million For Demanding Sex From Tenants

Posted 05.09.2012

A known sex offender who was hired as an Upper West Side building superintendent, along with the building's landlord and his son, have agreed to pay a...

Well-Dressed Groper' Guy Is Not The Well-Dressed Groper, Lawyer Says

| Posted 05.07.2012

MANHATTAN -- The man accused of being a well-dressed groper who allegedly molested women on the Upper East Side and in Lower Manhattan is expected to ...

Ex-Cop Sentenced To 75 Years In Jail

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.08.2012

NEW YORK -- A former police officer who grabbed a schoolteacher off the street and sexually attacked her was sentenced Monday to at least three quarte...

Brooklyn Mother Of Five Struck And Killed By Secret Service Agent

Posted 05.04.2012

An unidentified Secret Service agent struck and killed a Brooklyn mother of five as she attempted to cross Atlantic Avenue near Ralph Avenue in Brown...

No Charges In The Fatal Shooting Of Former Marine

Posted 05.03.2012

The officer who shot and killed 68-year old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in his own apartment was cleared of all criminal charges on Thursday. Westches...

Mystery Behind Man Found Dead On Platform With $180,000 Bundled Cash

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.03.2012

NEW YORK — The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep. In August, a...

TRAGEDY: Man Shot And Killed While Attending Vigil For Childhood Friend

Posted 04.27.2012

Tragedy struck the Bronx on Wednesday night, as a 22-year old man was shot and killed while attending a vigil held for his childhood friend Michael Ik...

WATCH: Ray Kelly Discuss Etan Patz Search With Son Greg Kelly

Posted 05.09.2012

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly visited the set of "Good Day New York" on Friday to discuss the latest in the new search to find the remains of Etan Pat...

MoMA Cook Gunned Down For His iPhone

| Posted 04.20.2012

By Nicholas Rizzi, Murray Weiss and Wil Cruz RIVERDALE -- A cook for The Modern at MoMA was shot to death early Thursday steps from his Riverdale h...

Officials Optimistic They'll Find Etan Patz

AP/The Huffington Post | SAMANTHA GROSS and TOM HAYS | Posted 05.11.2012

NEW YORK -- Police and the FBI searched a Manhattan basement Thursday for the remains of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance on his way to schoo...