The mayor, police commissioner and union president shared the podium at Harlem Hospital after the death of New York City Police Officer Randolph Holder.
The NYPD inspector general was one of the most divisive issues in the 2013 mayoral campaign. To date the first man to hold that post has been fairly quiet. That…
It’s not Bill de Blasio. It’s not even his critics. It’s everyone who’s treated the index-crime count as a barometer of mayoral leadership for 20 years.
The practice of “violence interruption” has spurred a lot of interest as a way to prevent bloodshed on city streets. A former gang member who leads one such effort says…
The controversy involving a pioneering pedestrian plaza in a neighborhood famously transformed by quality-of-life policing is a clash between two dominant ideas in modern New York: One, that sanitized spaces…
If the city wants cops who are more interested in solving problems than chasing bad guys, maybe it ought to start recruiting people with a few more years under their…
History shows that community policing funding is often rerouted to more repressive tactics, the authors write. Even when implemented, the approach asks police to do work for which they are…
An advocacy group has collected 117 anecdotes about the NYPD’s enforcement of low-level criminal offenses. The tales come in varying flavors of injustice, inconvenience and inefficiency.
