Shooting furor: NYPD's image is mixed
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The fatal shooting of an unarmed man by undercover officers again places New York police under unwelcome scrutiny. Critics say it's evidence of an unaccountable, sometimes trigger-happy force, while defenders &#151; backed by statistics &#151; insist the NYPD is among the best-trained, most restrained departments in the nation.
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Hundreds of New Yorkers held a candlelight vigil on Friday at the scene where an off-duty police officer killed an unarmed man in an incident that reignited charges of racism and excessive force among the city's police.
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With officers intimidated by killings and threats, some have begun questioning the notion of trying to establish a system of local policing at this time.
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Twenty years after the Barnhard Goetz subway shooting ignited a national furor over racism, gun control, crime and vigilante justice, New York is a far different place, and the sensational case now exists mostly as an artifact from another era.
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What emotion Fidel Castroâs announcement elicited was on the sly, under the eye of a heavy police presence.
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Although most officers in the New York City Police Department carry semiautomatic pistols, some older officers still prefer their .38-caliber revolvers.
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The use of mediation in cases of civil complaints against New York City police officers has become considerably more common in recent years.
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Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, some attention turned this week to cops who lost life, not cops who took life.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg met with the cityÂs top black leaders and offered a blunt assessment of a fatal police shooting.
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-- The images are chilling: A young man, his face bloody and swollen, struggles to tell a television reporter that he is an undercover federal agent, then a mob burns him and another officer alive on camera.
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Palestinian policemen, who have been given the task of restraining militants, say they can't or won't do the job. Interviewed at their front-line positions, some say they feel sympathy for the gunmen, while others fear getting shot at by Israeli troops.
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Police departments around the country turn to sound-analysis technology to detect and report gunshots. By Amit Asaravala.
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Advocates for the use of stun guns by police departments point to evidence that they are generally safe. But a recent demonstration shows otherwise.
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A police authority considers the Metropolitan Police response to a critical report into the Menezes shooting.
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The images are searing, violent. Smoke and flames pouring from the World Trade Center towers. Bullets ripping through military protective vests.
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"Law & Order" is feeling heat from the forensics labs, and Jerry Orbach is gone. It's Dennis Farina time on the streets of New York.
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Here's a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York. The vicious mugging, caught on surveillance tape, has sparked outrage in a city where people are accustomed to hearing about strange and violent crimes. Police have launched an all-out manhunt, but it's not just the cops who want the villain's head.