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Bar Attack

2010-03-12T15:34:14Z

This image provided by the New York Police Department and made from a police security camera near a bar's entrance shows a man police believe to be the stranger who followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday March 11, 2010, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually ass...

Bar Brawl

2010-03-12T07:00:55Z

US police departments seeking more bilingual cops

2010-03-11T13:00:48Z

<div id="subtitle">US police departments seeking more bilingual cops; some officers sent abroad to be immersed</div><div><p>Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs.</p><p>Police chiefs hope the investment pays off by improving service to immigrant communities and easing fear of officers in those...

NYPD: Rooftop body casts are art, not jumpers

2010-03-09T18:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">NYPD cautions public not to mistake life-size body casts on rooftops for residents in distress</div><div><p>The New York Police Department wants the public to know that the figures soon to be gazing down from buildings near a midtown park are an artist's body casts — not residents in distress.</p><p>Police spokesman NYPD: Officer fatally shoots man who was brandishing fake gun near Brooklyn elementary school</div><div><p>A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.</p><p>Police said they received a 911 call Monday...

Police Involved Shooting

2010-03-08T22:30:30Z

This photo taken Monday, March 8, 2010 and provided by the New York City Police Department shows a fake handgun on the street near an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. When police responded to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun near the school,...

3rd NYPD officer charged in $1M NJ perfume heist

2010-03-08T14:16:51Z

<div id="subtitle">3rd NYPD officer charged in $1 million robbery of northern NJ perfume warehouse</div><div><p>A third New York City police officer has been charged in the robbery of $1 million worth of perfume from a northern New Jersey warehouse.</p><p>Fede...

2 NYC officers charged in $1 million perfume heist

2010-03-05T15:45:57Z

<div id="subtitle">On the wrong side of the law: 2 NYC officers among 8 charged in NJ perfume heist</div><div><p>Two New York City police officers helped carry out a $1 million perfume heist at a New Jersey warehouse last month, acting like bumbling amateurs by using their own IDs to rent trucks that later tied them to the crimes, according to a federal complaint ...

NYC Terror

2010-02-22T15:01:15Z

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2009 file photo provided by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo. Zazi admitted Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 to a plo...

NYPD sodomy accuser says he worries for his safety

2010-02-22T10:30:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Accuser in NYPD sodomy case says after acquittal that he worries about his safety</div><div><p>The man who accused a New York policeman of sodomizing him with a baton says he's worried about his safety after the officer's acquittal.</p><p>Michael Mi...

NYPD launches plan to interview suspects on film

2010-02-22T08:43:48Z

<div id="subtitle">NYPD to launch pilot program to videotape detectives' interrogation of suspects</div><div><p>The New York Police Department wants to begin filming the real-life version of a staple of TV's law-and-order dramas: Detectives grilling suspects.</p><p>Police Com...

Feds won't pursue NYPD shooting of man in 2006

2010-02-22T09:14:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal prosecutors won't file civil rights charges in NYPD shooting of unarmed man in 2006</div><div><p>Three New York police officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-shot barrage outside a seedy strip club hours before his wedding will not face civil rights charges, federal auth...

Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released

2010-02-22T10:22:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Police aerial photos show World Trade Center collapse; 8 years later, the pictures still shock</div><div><p>A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.&...

APTOPIX Attacks World Trade Center

2010-02-10T12:45:52Z

This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001 by the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News, which claims to have obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows smoke and ash engulfing the area around the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News, which claims to have obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows smoke and ash engulfing the area around the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, smoke and ash engulf lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World trade Center towers. (AP Photo/NYPD, via ABC News, Det. New York Police Department, eight for the Fire Department, three for

Manhattan Hotel Death

2010-02-05T13:00:50Z

New York Police detectives enter the Peninsula Hotel Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 in New York. Police say a 9-year-old boy was found dead and his socialite mother near death in a room at the luxury Manhattan hotel, investigating the incident as a possibl...

Jewelry Store Shooting

2010-01-28T19:01:46Z

This drawing released Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, by the New York City Police Department, the suspect in the robbery-murder of 71-year-old Henry Menahem is shown. The suspect made off with nearly a million dollars worth of sapphires, diamonds, emeralds and other jewels after shooting Menahem in the brazen daylight robbery. (AP Photo/NYPD)

NYPD suspends 2 officers after video shows them punching handcuffed suspect on ground</div><div><p>Two New York Police Department patrolmen have been suspended after a video surfaced showing them beating a handcuffed suspect during an undercover drug operation.</p><p>The footage was shot by a witness l...