The man who prosecutors say was the mastermind behind a 2011 burglary that led to the death of a Brooklyn police officer was found guilty Friday of second degree murder.
5/24/2013 - By: NY1 News
Usually, when the police commissioner sits before the City Council's Public Safety Committee, there's a heated exchange, but that wasn't the case Thursday, as Ray Kelly testified about the budget for the last time during the Bloomberg administration.
5/23/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
A new study by the New York City Liberties Union says the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactic to get guns off the street is all smoke and mirrors, and in 2012 it mainly resulted in marijuana arrests.
5/22/2013 - By: NY1 News
More and more police departments across the country are using video cameras when they stop citizens on the street, and the federal judge in the stop-and-frisk trial may be eyeing that practice for city officers.
5/21/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
A Bronx police officer has been arrested by federal investigators after he allegedly paid a hacking service more than $4,000 to get the logins and passwords of more than 43 email accounts, many of which belonged to fellow NYPD officers.
5/21/2013 - By: NY1 News
After nine weeks of trial, lawyers on both sides of the federal case over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program finally summed up on Monday, and now, it's up to the judge to rule on whether the tactic amounts to racial profiling.
5/20/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
The Reverend Al Sharpton led a Saturday meeting in Harlem to protest a judge's decision to throw out an indictment in the case of the police shooting of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed teenager in the Bronx.
5/18/2013 - By: NY1 News
Law enforcement officials announced on Thursday 16 people have been arrested for allegedly selling tax-free cigarettes in the city and are being investigated for having possible ties to Islamic groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
5/16/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
A Bronx judge has thrown out the indictment on manslaughter charges filed against the officer accused in the shooting death of Ramarley Graham, saying the grand jury was accidentally misled by the district attorney's office.
5/15/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
City Hall sources say the city is worried Judge Shira Scheindlin will side against the NYPD in the case looking into the controversial police tactic.
5/15/2013 - By: NY1 News
The New York City Police Department's stop, question and frisk policy is the focus of an ongoing trial, and among the evidence in the case, is an audio recording that's resulted in some death threats against a city police commander and his family.
5/14/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Correction officials say they'll rely more on counseling and therapy instead of solitary confinement, as they say solitary confinement often makes mentally ill prisoners act worse.
5/13/2013 - By: NY1 News
A New York City Police Department precinct commander caught on tape telling an officer young black men were the problem defended his words during the stop, question and frisk trial Monday.
5/13/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is in the nation's capital today to receive the Secretary of State's Excellence in Criminal Justice Assistance Award for the department's post-earthquake training efforts in Haiti.
5/13/2013 - By: NY1 News
Two high-ranking officers who testified this week in the seventh week of the federal trial over the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk program spoke with
NY1 criminal justice Reporter Dean Meminger.
5/10/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
A Tunisian man appeared in Manhattan federal court Thursday after federal prosecutors say he tried to develop a terror cell and carry out attacks in the United States.
5/9/2013 - By: NY1 News
Opening arguments were heard for two more defendants charged in the shooting death of a NYPD officer in Brooklyn, including the so-called ringleader.
5/8/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
The parents of a Brooklyn teen shot and killed by police officers after he pulled a gun on them outside an East Flatbush home in March filed a notice of claim for a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday.
5/8/2013 - By: NY1 News
Mayor Michael Bloomberg again forcefully defended the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisks Tuesday, as new data shows the number of stops conducted by police in the first quarter of this year is down dramatically compared with same period last year.
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5/7/2013 - By: Bobby Cuza
The judge in the case of an officer who shot and killed an unarmed Bronx teen last year says that the DA's office may have told the grand jury not to rely on what fellow officers said to Haste before the shooting, including warnings that Graham had a gun.
5/7/2013 - By: NY1 News
People in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities say the NYPD's stop and frisk program can jeopardize their lives, saying the tactic can lead to the spread of deadly diseases.
5/3/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
In a new op-ed piece, former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau is ripping the idea of creating an inspector general for the NYPD saying it would "ensure that nothing gets done."
5/3/2013 - By: NY1 News
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday staunchly defended the city police department's stop-and-frisk and counter-terrorism programs and bashed city politicians who oppose them, saying critics should "stop playing politics with public safety." |
Watch the mayor's full speech. |
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4/30/2013 - By: NY1 News
A prison warden is recommending early release for Lynne Stewart, a former New York civil rights lawyer, who is doing time in connection to a terrorism case, since she has advanced, Stage IV cancer.
5/1/2013 - By: NY1 News
An NYPD's Deputy Chief that was instrumental to the creation of the stop-and-frisk training program says it will take more sensitivity, explaining and training to calm the outrage over the department's stop-and-frisk program.
4/29/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Monday marks the start of the seventh week in the federal trial against the New York City Police Department and its stop-and-frisk tactics. NY1's Criminal Justice reporter Dean Meminger takes a detailed look at a video shown in court to train officers on the controversial practice. |
View the entire NYPD training video.
4/28/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Watch the NYPD's stop-and-frisk training video, which was presented in federal court last week.
4/28/2013 - By: NY1 News
Starting Tuesday, the city medical examiner's office will search for possible human remains in a Lower Manhattan alleyway where a piece of wreckage believed to be from one of the planes hijacked on September 11th was discovered.
4/27/2013 - By: Rocco Vertuccio
A Bronx man now living in North Carolina has been charged with murder in connection with the deadly 2006 Easter shooting of a two year old boy.
4/26/2013 - By: NY1 News
Members of the banking and finance industries are among a group of defendants set to be arraigned today on charges they bought drugs from gangs operating out of two Lower East Side housing projects, sources tell NY1.
4/26/2013 - By: NY1 News
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly briefed members of the media Thursday on the latest in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, which they say has revealed an indication the suspects were planning to travel to New York to detonate their remaining explosive devices in Times Square. |
Watch the full press briefing
4/25/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Lawyers for the city begin calling witnesses Thursday in the federal trial challenging the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, and showed a police training video that aimed to demonstrate the different ways to determine if a stop should be performed.
4/25/2013 - By: NY1 News
New York City Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says Commissioner Ray Kelly will promote Assistant Chief Thomas Chan to become the new Chief of Community Affairs Friday.
4/25/2013 - By: NY1 News
Federal prosecutors have combined two cases that both reportedly have ties to the investigation of so-called "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle.
4/24/2013 - By: NY1 News
As investigators search for a motive behind the Boston Marathon bombings, police now believe the Tsarnaev brothers were headed to New York after the attacks, but to celebrate rather than cause further harm.
4/24/2013 - By: NY1 News
The NYPD and the Department Of Energy's Brookhaven National Lab have scheduled the largest-ever urban airflow study for July, to gain more insight into how a possible environmental attack would impact the city.
4/24/2013 - By: NY1 News
The mayor and city police commissioner say more cameras need to blanket the five boroughs to help improve the odds in the fight against terrorism, and they stopped by a high-tech NYPD surveillance location in Manhattan on Tuesday to see their efforts first-hand.
4/23/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said there will be more counter-terror technology and mobile cameras at major parades and outdoor events in the city, and event organizers are increasing security measures in the wake of the Boston bombings.
4/22/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
As the investigation continues in the Boston marathon Bombing, the New York City Police Department is preparing to gear up security for two major races in Manhattan this weekend.
4/17/2013 - By: Dean Meminger
At August Martin High School in Queens, Commissioner Ray Kelly and members of the Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council announced a new initiative that makes police officers available to students to talk about subjects like the department's stop-and-frisk policy and police involved shootings.
4/17/2013 - By: NY1 News