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The Editorial Board of The New York Times called the police rally a "riot," finding both praise and fault in a preliminary report by NYPD of the police misconduct. The report found that police officers used racial slurs to describe Dinkins, who is black, and that there had been drinking in connection with the rally.
In 2019 the NYPD responded to 482,337 reports of crime and made 214,617 arrests. [10] There were 95,606 major felonies reported in 2019, compared to over half a million per year when crime in New York City peaked during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot, also known as the City Hall Riot, was a rally organized and sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) held on September 16, 1992, to protest mayor David Dinkins' proposal to create a civilian agency to investigate police misconduct.
A street in Brooklyn was officially renamed Sunday to honor a decorated cop who was gunned down by a violent thug during a botched robbery 13 years ago.. Officer Peter Figoski, a 47-year-old ...
Neither the NYPD nor Crime Stoppers even took down the family’s information — raising the question of how the family was going to be contacted in the future should the anonymous tipster agency ...
The concert has become a yearly ritual to mark the 1988 riots. According to the NYPD, when officers attempted an arrest for an open container of alcohol, concertgoers "surrounded and assaulted" the officers. Six arrests were made on charges including assault inciting to riot. "It was a confrontation obviously.
Epps, who held an administrative post in Maddrey’s office, was the NYPD’s top earner in fiscal year 2024, payroll data show. She raked in $400,000 that year, with overtime pay accounting for ...
The reason for this was the NYPD launching a major reshuffle of its investigative forces, consolidating several of them in an effort to tackle the city's biggest crime problem — violence by gangs and youth crews. The Organized Crime Control Bureau was headed by Bureau Chief Thomas P. Purtell when it was disbanded. [3]