Police shootings and New York: lessons learned
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To deal with a groom's death, Mayor Bloomberg is reaching out to community leaders.
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The names of four Westchester County police officers who were involved in the shooting death of an off-duty officer in White Plains on Friday were made public on Monday.
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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As street-corner slayings and drug turf drive-bys have melted away in New York City, police are collecting more data than ever on the remaining few hundred murders.
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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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A 5-year-old program that sends rookie police officers to crime hot spots in New York City has helped the city achieve the lowest murder rate in 45 years and will be doubled in size in 2008, police officials say.
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Modern police departments have been deploying modified paintball guns like the ones provided by Pepperball, Inc. to help police officers balance the American people's First Amendment right of free assembly against the demands of politicians. The "less than lethal" designation of these weapons was highlighted recently by the shooting death of Victoria Snelgrove, a baseball fan, by Pepperball equipped police near Fenway Park in Boston.
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A city police officer was attacked by a man with a baseball bat early this morning in the 115th precinct in Queens, police said. The uniformed police officer, who is on an impact post, was patrolling on foot at about 1:20 a.m. at 102nd Street and 39th Ave., about a mile west of Shea Stadium in the Corona neighborhood. He was approached by a man with a baseball bat, who struck the officer in the head with the bat and stole his gun. A second police officer saw the commotion from a distance, unaware that it was a fellow officer who had been attacked, police said. He chased the bat-wielding man, capturing him and recovering the gun before making an arrest.
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik answers questions after speaking at the New York Republican State Committee 2004 Designation Meeting in Syracuse, NY in this May 19, 2004 file photo.
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BUDAPEST, Feb 27 (IPS) - With Hungarian right-wing extremists looking   increasingly active, many are concerned that shots fired against  the  police headquarters in Budapest were just a warning of  things to come.
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Two shootouts last week are part of a troubling phenomenon in which officer deaths have jumped to a level not seen in 29 years.
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It began as a small documentary by two teenage filmmakers about guns, death and grief at a Brooklyn housing project. Then, in the midst of production, one of the teens saw his best friend die in a freak shooting on the project's rooftop. The shooter was a police officer.
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
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Four months into his job, a police officer in Mississippi holds a gun to the head of an unarmed teenager and puts him in a chokehold. A rookie officer in Illinois gets into a car chase that kills a driver. And a new campus policeman in Indiana shoots an unarmed student to death.
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By Donovan Slack and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | October 27, 2004. Two officers who fired pepper-pellet guns near where a 21-year-old college student was fatally shot last week were not trained to use the
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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.
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A woman in New York City is more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by a stranger, especially if she is young and foreign-born, a new study has found.