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Florida Sheriff Decries Hanging Mannequin in Police Uniform
Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida, are investigating after motorists saw a startling scene Saturday morning as they drove along a Florida interstate: a mannequin dressed in a police uniform dangling from a rope at an overpass.
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NYPD Vehicle Rams Into Protesters
A video shows a NYPD vehicle moving forward into a group of protesters.
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Masks, Gloves, Tears as NYPD Mourns Commander Lost to Virus
The NYPD honored a traffic enforcement officer who died of coronavirus, one of 31 members of the department who’ve died of the disease
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New NYPD Chief of Patrol is Living His Childhood Dream
Fausto Pichardo made history by becoming the first Dominican-born Chief of Patrol for the NYPD earlier this month, attaining a dream he’s had since he was growing up in the Lower East Side. Now in charge of 22,000 officers, he wants to ensure the men and women he leads are safe and protected when facing danger in city streets. NBC...
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NYPD: Sex Crimes Unit Probe Focuses on Administrative Issues
The New York Police Department says an internal affairs investigation into the sex crimes unit involves alleged misuse of time and a police vehicle, and has nothing to do with its handling of particular cases.
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NYPD Officer Accused of Breaking Into Tennessee Home, Threatening and Yelling Racial Slur at Family Enters Plea
A New York City police officer accused of breaking into a Tennessee home and threatening the black family inside has pleaded no contest
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New App Lets New Yorkers Use Their Smartphones to Send in Crime Tips to NYPD
A new smartphone app is giving people a modern way to send anonymous tips to the New York Police Department
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Crowds Get Dampened by Rain at New York City's J'Ouvert, West Indian Day Parade
Steel bands and revelers sporting elaborate feathered costumes, Caribbean flags and some rain ponchos marched and danced Monday in a West Indian American Day Parade dampened by weather and awash in cultural pride.
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With Sex Crimes, NYPD Moves to ‘Victim-Centered' Approach
The NYPD, criticized in the DOI report for re-traumatizing victims and jeopardizing prosecutions, has accelerated a program to train all special-victims investigators in the specialized interview techniques, known as trauma-informed questioning.
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Walmart Pulls Violent Game Displays; No Change On Gun Sales
Walmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at one of its stores in Texas, though it has not changed its policy on gun sales.
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Trump Dismisses Latest Sexual Assault Claim: ‘She's Not My Type'
President Donald Trump said Monday that a New York-based advice columnist who has accused him of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s is not his “type.” “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” Trump told The Hill in an interview at the White...
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Shoplifter Slugs Worker After Stuffing Soap Down Pants: NYPD
A man slugged a worker who caught him stuffing a bar of soap down his pants at a New York City pharmacy, police said.
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‘I Don't Want to Go Back': Urine-Thrower Who Terrorized Female MTA Workers Arrested: Sources
A man who allegedly threw urine on two female MTA workers — a subway conductor and a bus driver — in the Bronx within a span of an hour was arrested in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources say.
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‘I Don't Want to Go Back': Urine-Thrower Terrorizes Female MTA Workers
Cops are looking for a man they say threw urine on two female MTA workers — a subway conductor and a bus driver — in the Bronx within a span of an hour last week.
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Suspect Wanted in Urine Attacks on Female Transit Workers
Police are searching for a man they say threw urine at female transit workers in two separate incidents.
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Man Convicted in ‘Blacks Should Be Killed' Graffiti Case at Historic NYC Burial Ground
A man accused of scrawling racist graffiti at the historic African Burial Ground in New York City has been convicted of vandalism.
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Queens Man, 80, Charged in 1973 Killings of Women in Beach Cottage
An 80-year-old New York man has been arrested on charges that he killed two young women in a beach cottage nearly half a century ago in Virginia, police said Tuesday.
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NYPD's Secret Weapon in Standoffs Is Simple Piece of Rope
It’s a simple technology that’s helping New York City police officers take control when people lock themselves in their homes and threaten harm.
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NYPD Backtracks, Says Officer Wasn't Killed in 1999 Shooting
He’s alive! The NYPD says confusion surrounding a long-awaited arrest led officials to wrongly declare that an off-duty officer had been killed in a 1999 shooting in the Bronx.