Subject: New York City Police Department

• Death On Duty: Cops and Risks

  January 30, 2006

• Idiots Outfox NYPD

  January 31, 2006

• Your Turn: Cops and Guns?

  February 2, 2006

• Wanted: NYC Crime Numbers

  March 6, 2006

• Court Backs Commish on Interrogating Cops

  March 28, 2006

• March Organizers Say 350K

  April 29, 2006

• City Jobs Kick Ass (Literally)

  July 25, 2006

• New Standoff Over Critical Mass as Another Bike Group Sues to Block Parade Regs

  March 28, 2007

• NY [heart] Critical Mass?

  May 11, 2007

• Brooklyn Bridge Art Party Turns To Naked Coney Carousing

  July 16, 2007

• Cops Bust Three Men in Makeshift Submarine

  August 3, 2007

• Gunman Arrested on St. John's Campus

  September 26, 2007

• National Mobilization Against the War

  October 26, 2007

• Manmade Explosive Damages Times Square Recruiting Station

  March 6, 2008

• The Fun Stuff: Puntastic Headlines and Wacky Stories

  March 20, 2008

• Police Agreement: More Access and Less Horse Attacks for Political Protesters

  April 15, 2008

• The NYPD's Post-Sean Bell Firearms Study Ignores Race; RAND is Sorry

  June 10, 2008

• City to Pay $2 Million to 2003 Carlyle Group Protesters

  August 19, 2008

• Report: Cops Fired 588 Shots in 2007, Hit 29 "Subjects"

  September 10, 2008

• Taser Cop Kills Himself

  October 2, 2008

• 10-Year-Old Pea-Shooter Perp Sues City

  October 20, 2008

• Kelly Gets His Report Card

  The stars have aligned, the seas have parted, somewhere in the desert a bush burns, and the Mayor's Commission to Combat Police Corruption has actually issued a report.    It was only the second report put out in three years by an agency that our old friend Rudy Giuliani created in 1995 as an "independent monitor" of the NYPD.    Given the length of time that it took to assemble, one might expect that this report would have some blockbuster stuff in it. Some serious

  January 9, 2009

• NYPD to Cut Classes, Cops in 2010

  Due to budget cuts, the NYPD is cancelling its January 2010 police academy class. Such classes usually train about a thousand cadets, says NY1. Posters at cop board Thee Rant are generally OK with this: "If you hired the right kind of people for this job over the years and gave them the training and authority to do the job," says one poster, "you could police this city with less than half the number of cops you have today." (They're less happy with Bloomberg's proposal to set the minimum NYPD re

  February 10, 2009

• The NYPD Ignores Leap Day Crimes to Keep Stats Low

  March 18, 2008

• The NYPD Releases Detailed Data on Dogs They've Shot, But Not on The People

  Ain't that a bitch?

  May 13, 2008

• Who's Watching?

  January 17, 2006

• NYPD Green

  July 10, 2007

• Quick Hits

  "WMITF?" twitpic via dvdquotes. Whenever NYPD comes up in the news, we like to include comments from Thee Rant, formerly NYPD Rant. Apparently they've noticed. "They are not on our side," says one poster, "and will look for stuff that fits their image of cops, which ain't good." "The Village Voice? Elliot Spitzers favorite paper?" says another. "A paper supported by revenue generated by advertising of SHE-MALE PROSTITUTES? How can you take that rag seriously?" "Now thats a quote they should r

  June 4, 2009

• When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?

  March 4, 2008

• Cops on Steroids

  December 11, 2007

• New York Murderfest Continues; Knife Slayings Up 50%

  This weekend the weather was warm and soft, ripe bodies hit the pavement -- 14 people were shot in one 24-hour period. This morning's papers showed a bumper crop of corpses. NYPD crime lad tech Michelle Lee was found in her Queens apartment nude, bound, bludgeoned and stabbed in the neck. In Staten Island cops found a mummified corpse under the floorboards of a boarded-up Cedar Street apartment -- locals had been complaining of a foul odor from thence since last summer. And Sunday Brooklyn liver

  April 28, 2009

• NYPD Debuts "Green" Hybrid Police Cars

  The testing phrase is over, and the NYPD has deployed 40 Nissan Altima Hybrid vehicles as police cars. Mayor Bloomberg is pleased: "These new patrol cars will help fulfill the PlaNYC goal of reducing City government's carbon footprint," he says. Commissioner Ray Kelly cautiously says the Department "embraces innovation when it doesn't compromise performance or safety to our personnel and the public." The new gas-and-electric cars get 35 mpg; the Impalas used by most cops get 16. They're going t

  April 30, 2009

• The Big Frisk: Why The Increase in Stop-and-Searches?

  It takes a lot to keep the lid on New York crime, but does it take 171,094 stop-and-frisks in three months? Only MSG gets more than that. But that's what the NYPD clocked from January to March this year. The New York Civil Liberties Union doesn't approve of this high pat-down incidence -- a 16 percent increase over the previous three-month measurement -- especially considering nine out of ten of these detainees weren't charged with anything. Granted, patdowns are a slightly more polite affair

  May 12, 2009

• NYCLU Sues Homeland Security Over Spying on Citizens

  The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Homeland Security to find anything it can about the NYPD's plans to build a massive surveillance system in Lower Manhattan. The system will allow the NYPD, and possibly the federal government, to create a computerized database on the movement and whereabouts of millions of everyday New Yorkers who travel south of Canal Street. Modeled after London's so-called Ring of Steel surveillance network, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiat

  June 9, 2009

• Missing Persons: Alyssa Davilla, 16, and Christan Aguero, 27

  NYPD asks you to look out for these two missing persons: at left, Alyssa Davilla, 16, last seen on the morning of June 23 at her home on Prospect Avenue near East 156th Street in the Bronx. She's 5'5" 138 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, and was last seen wearing a yellow dress and black shoes. At right, Christan Aguero, 27, of Sherman Avenue near West 204th Street in Inwood: He's about 6'6, 200 pounds, and last seen wearing a dark green shirt, blue jeans and black glasses. If you have i

  June 30, 2009

• Doh! NYPD Manages to Rankle Retired Cops With Logo Crackdown

  The NYPD has somehow managed to piss off one of its most loyal constituencies by demanding that clubs made up of its own retired officers across the country stop using the department logo [as we do at left], the Voice has learned. In a curt letter sent to so-called 10-13 clubs from Arizona to Florida, the NYPD threatens to charge clubs with a crime, slap them with a violation of city law or sue them for reproducing the logo.  The clubs use the official NYPD logo on t-shirts and membership ca

  July 14, 2009

• Have You Seen... Hate Crime Perp, Staten Island

  The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is looking for three men wanted for a bias attack on the south shore of Staten Island. In the early morning hours of June 17, a white guy (pictured above, on surveillance video) got in a dispute with a Hispanic guy in a store at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Victory Boulevard. The white guy dropped a slur. They both left, and the Hispanic guy was walking away when, in front of 6 Greentree Lane about a block away from the store, a car pulled up and the white guy

  July 15, 2009

• Retired Cops Continue To Be Unhappy About NYPD's Logo Crackdown

  It seems that our items about the NYPD's campaign to stop its own retired officers from using the department logo have struck a chord. The Voice has gotten an unusual number of emails on this subject. As you may recall, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's people sent letters to so-called 10-13 clubs, which are made up of retired city cops, around the country threatening criminal charges or lawsuit if they did not stop using the logo on t-shirts and membership cards. In all, as of lunchtime today,

  July 17, 2009

• Have You Seen... Stroker on the #3

  ​Ladies, keep your eye out for this cowboy: cops say that on Friday afternoon he got on the northbound #3 at 42nd Street, took a seat across from a 41-year-old woman, and started -- there's no delicate way to say this -- beating off. He got off, in the more literal sense, at 96th Street, but not before the victim used her cell phone to take this picture. The air-rape victim is not easily deterred. She took her complaint to the 32nd Precinct and was "apparently rebuffed by a uniformed off

  August 12, 2009

• Staten Island Congressman Complains of Lack of Federal Money for Cops

  ​When it looked like the NYPD wasn't going to get any federal stimulus funds, everyone from the Governor on down was upset, so Obama relented and had Homeland Security scrape up $35 million for us. But when the big-money federal COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) grants came out in late July, the city was not on their funding list -- though Albany, Hudson, Monticello, Mt. Vernon, Newburgh, Niagara, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy and Utica bagged a total of $5,035,597

  August 19, 2009

• NYPD Closing Down Cops' Child Care Center

  ​We thought the closing of the press shack was bad. Now the NYPD says it will close a discount day care center that has been providing childcare for two decades to overworked parents in the NYPD. The NYPD Office of Management and Budget has requested that the day care center at One Police Plaza, called the Finest Child Care Center, vacate the three basement rooms it utilizes on September 30, 2009 and close its doors to the 30 children in attendance. Women comprise 18 percent of the pol

  August 20, 2009

• Have You Seen... Uptown Bank Robber

  ​We're told that the number of local bank robberies is down this year -- 159 versus 244 this time last year. Nonetheless they're still happening and one went down Thursday morning at the Bank of America at Broadway near 107th Street. The suspect, pictured, is believed to be in his 30s, and 5'9" or 5'10". The hospital scrubs he was wearing may have been meant to facilitate a quick clothing change, or else hospital workers are paid worse than we thought. If you have information as to this

  August 25, 2009

• TransAlt: Cars Run Wild in NYC; Police, Citizen Surveillance Needed (Updated)

  The bike and pedestrian advocates at Transportation Alternatives have released a study which suggests that New York drivers are lawless and a menace to us all. TransAlt stationed teams of observers at four intersections -- 96th and Broadway in Manhattan, 73rd and Roosevelt in Queens, and Prospect Place and Carlton Avenue and Smith and 9th Street in Brooklyn -- and had them record driving violations. They found an average of 157 violations per hour at each. The most pervasive were Disregard of Tr

  August 25, 2009

• Uptown Sex Attack on Monday Tied to Three Others

  ​The man police think committed sexual assaults in Hamilton Heights on August 1st and August 10th is thought to have committed a couple more -- a rape in an elevator at West 158th Street and Riverside Drive on August 18 and, just this Monday, a knifepoint sexual assault in a woman's home at West 147th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. NYPD originally thought he was taller but now describes him as 5'5 and about 150 pounds. They ask that if you have information as to this man or these incid

  September 9, 2009

• Please disregard the explosions

  ​The NYPD is letting us know that the Half Moon and the Onrust (pictured) will be firing salutes when they pass a Royal Dutch Navy ship in the harbor today at 11 and 11:03.I confidently expect that this will be an occasion for next-day stories about how jumpy new yorkers are since 9/11, and that someone in the financial district will dutifully provide a quote to that effect.Luckily, we've been warned, so it won't be us.

  September 13, 2009

• Have you seen... two shooters in South Jamaica

  ​​Police in the 113th Precinct are looking for information about two suspects in the non-fatal shooting of a female victim on 119 Avenue Tuesday night just after 9pm. Several shots were fired, striking the 18-year-0ld victim in the torso. The suspects, both wearing blue sweatshirts, left on foot heading west on 119 Avenue. NYPD is asking anyone who knows anything about whereabouts and/or identity of the suspected gunmen to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS, lo

  October 18, 2009

• Missing Person: YoungChu Core, 45

  ​YoungChu Core, 45, of East 125th Street has not been seen since October 9, but her disappearance has only recently been called in. When last seen she was wearing blue jeans and a beige jacket. She is described as 5'7", 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. f you have information as to her whereabouts, NYPD asks you to contact 1-800-577-TIPS(8477), www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or text 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577.

  October 21, 2009

• Woman with Amnesia Found; Do You Know Her?

  ​NYPD found this woman on October 9 near Grand Central. She says she doesn't remember who she is. She looks to be between 14 and 20 years old, and was wearing green camouflage pants, a black shirt, and a pair of black sneakers when she was picked up. She's 5'5" and weighs 130 pounds. Do you know her? If so NYPD would like you to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or contact them via www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text (274637 [CRIMES], then enter TIP577).

  October 22, 2009

• Have You Seen... Flushing Sexual Assailant

  ​Last Friday around 7 p.m. a young woman entered a building on 31st Road near 23rd Street in Flushing,and was accosted in the elevator by a young man, pictured in this police sketch, who forced her into the stairwell and sexually assaulted and robbed her. He's described as a 18-25 year old Hispanic, about 5'4 with a medium build, and was wearing a blue hoodie at the time. If you have any information as to this man or this incident, NYPD asks you to contact 1-800-577-TIPS(8477), www.nypdc

  November 19, 2009

• Cops, MTA Meet Council on Subway Sex Harassers; Cell Phones, "Wall of Shame" Suggested

  ​A few days ago we noticed councilmember Jessica Lappin has a bill going that would require NYPD to "report on complaints of harassment in the transit system." Looks like things are going her way: today the council's transportation, women's issues and public safety committees met with officials from NYPD and the MTA to talk about harassment in the subway, and it sounds like the cops, at least, are on board. James P. Hall, head of the NYPD transit bureau, said sexual harrassment is the "No

  November 19, 2009