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“As I’ve pledged to do, I want to share additional information regarding a troubling incident involving a member of the department related to demonstration activity that the NYPD is actively investigating,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in the statement.

“The Wire” star Michael K. Williams made a surprise appearance at a City Council hearing Tuesday to pledge his support for reform in the NYPD. The actor, who grew up in Brooklyn, said the money would be better used toward funding social services benefiting the city’s youth. “As a young man growing up in the...

Police are hunting a man who struck a cop in the head with a glass object in NYC as officers arrested a burglary suspect last week, authorities said.

"Speaking of who is here today, where is the commissioner?" Queens Councilman Donovan Richards said at the start of the hearing. "I do see the man who maybe should be the commissioner, Deputy Commissioner Tucker."

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that his wife, Chirlane McCray, was behind the major decision to shift funding from the NYPD toward city youth groups and social services. McCray, co-chair of the mayor’s Racial Inclusion and Equity Task Force that was born out of the coronavirus crisis, urged de Blasio to reallocate a chunk...

A former X-ray technician who secretly recorded an underage girl getting undressed at a Manhattan medical center is now being sued by a second woman — after she received a letter from the man admitting he did the same thing to her. The woman — who filed the case anonymously under Jane Doe — says...

Upstate Chautauqua Nursing and Rehab Center tested more than 300 employees four times each during the three weeks DOH’s order has been in place — but has yet to get results back.

When restaurants in New York reopen for indoor dining, they will only be allowed to operate at 50 percent capacity — and must erect 5-foot barriers between tables if they can’t guarantee proper social distancing, according to newly updated state guidelines. Other restrictions include workers wearing face masks at all times, as well as customers...

A New Jersey state trooper fatally shot a New York man as they struggled during a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway, newly released video shows. The footage, released Monday by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, is among 12 audio and video recordings from a May 23 traffic stop showing Maurice Gordon, 28,...

A potential $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s budget isn’t on the table within the department, First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker told the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday. “No, we’re not,” Tucker said with a laugh when asked by committee chair Donovan Richards (D-Queens) whether the department was on board with...