A mentally-disturbed man left seriously hurt and hospitalized after being shot by cops in Queens had been following officers while waving a knife as they tried to retreat, the NYPD said in a statement ...

The New York City Police Department released body camera footage showing the moment an officer shot a mentally ill man who was allegedly charging him with a knife amid calls from Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

The NYPD Police Academy will soon be touchingly renamed after one of the department’s most storied fallen heroes — Detective Steven McDonald. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the sprawling ...

New year, new baby to save. Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in ...

A new lawsuit accuses the NYPD of disproportionately stopping and searching Black and Hispanic drivers without legal justification. The suit, filed in federal court by the New York Civil Liberties ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Residents in a small Central Austin neighborhood had an unexpected Monday morning when the sound of cars racing down the street followed by a crash caught the attention of the ...

NYPD officers too often stop Black and Hispanic drivers without justification, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. The suit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court by the New York Civil Liberties Union and ...

The New York City Police Department has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming officers are engaging in "stop-and-frisk on wheels." The department is accused of using traffic stops to target and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — An NYPD sergeant who killed a fleeing suspect by hurling a cooler that struck the man as he rode past on a scooter was ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch used her State of the NYPD address Tuesday to announce a wide-ranging set of updates aimed at boosting public safety, modernizing operations and ...

A former NYPD official who helped form the Strategic Response Group, the controversial unit that responds to protests in the city, told Gothamist that he now backs a complete overhaul of the unit.

New numbers from the NYPD show a rise in antisemitic hate crimes. Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 182% in January 2026 compared to January 2025, statistics released Monday show. Overall, hate ...