WPIX- New York: The NYPD is seeking the public’s help to ID some reckless motorcyclists. The guys seen in this video blocked off traffic on Broadway in upper Manhattan. The bikers were popping wheelies and driving in circles in the
According to a UPI report, “300 [people] die as result of a fall” every year in New York City. Meanwhile, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reports 419 people were murdered in NYC in 2012, but of those murders only
A debate is shaping up over a $40 million barrier system that would encircle the 16-acre World Trade Center site. The barrier would include static barriers and sally ports, where booths control barriers screening vehicles attempting entry. Residents of the area
Over 100 former New York City cops and firefighters have been charged in one of the largest Social Security disability scams in U.S. history, costing taxpayers an estimated $400 million. Over half of the defendants allegedly scored disability payments by
Barry Baldwin, a 35-year old Brooklyn, NY resident, was arrested by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force for at least seven alleged “knockout” attacks. The “game” has been rampant in cities throughout the nation, played predominantly by black male teens attempting
Al Qaeda will now have a former CBS News correspondent to contend with in New York City. Soon after Bill Bratton was sworn in to become the city’s police commissioner, Bratton tapped CBS News Correspondent John Miller to head up the NYPD’s
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is sending letters to certain gun owners warning them to modify, move out of the state, or surrender any shotguns and rifles that have the capacity to hold more than five rounds. According
Al Sharpton, race-hustler extraordinaire, refuses to apologize for launching a boycott against Barneys New York over accusations that Barneys racially profiled two young black people. Sharpton claimed Barneys racially profiled Tryon Christian and Kayla Phillips. Barneys CEO Mark Lee, frightened by
The craven act of sucker punching an unsuspecting person known as the “knockout game” is being played in cities across the nation. The object of the game is to walk by a person unaware that your intention is to punch him in
(AP) NYPD: Woman raped as daughter sleeps nearbyNEW YORKThe New York Police Department is seeking the public’s help in finding the man who they say broke into a woman’s apartment in the middle of the night and raped her at
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In addition to cheering supporters, runners in this Sunday’s New York City Marathon will also be monitored by bomb-sniffing dogs, police scuba divers and surveillance helicopters to prevent an attack similar to the one at the
This weekend, MSNBC host Al Sharpton launched a campaign against Barneys in New York after allegations of racial profiling by two young black customers who purchased expensive items and were then accosted by police. Kayla Phillips, 21, bought a $2,500
(CNN) – The NYPD is looking for a blind Korean tourist who went missing Thursday while his tour group visited the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. To make matters even more difficult for the police, they say 41-year-old Taehueung
Normally when a child is born and leaves its mother’s womb, we call it a “baby”–but not the Associated Press. On October 17, a security guard at a Manhattan lingerie shop thought that two teen girls were shoplifting and stopped
(AP) NYPD: Teen found with fetus in bag at storeNEW YORKA security guard on the lookout for shoplifters searched two teenage girls as they left a Manhattan lingerie shop Thursday afternoon and discovered one of them was carrying a fetus
There were no murders last week in New York City. That, by definition, is amazing. That’s like saying, for one week, there were no pies in Kirstie Alley’s fridge. Or no contagious bacteria in Hef’s grotto. Or no drugs in Andy Dick’s
When the Eastern League baseball playoffs started earlier this month in Trenton, New Jersey, there was clearly a New York state of mind engulfing the ball park. I was right in the thick of it. What wasn’t as obvious was
By JONATHAN LEMIREAssociated PressNEW YORKNew York City’s wild mayoral primary campaign hurtled to the voting booth Tuesday as New Yorkers begin the process of replacing the man who has led their city for 12 years. Mayor Michael Bloomberg never offered
Dwayne Johnson has had a busy 2013 yet apparently still found the time to hit the gym–hard. The muscle-bound actor appeared in Snitch, Fast and Furious 6, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Pain and Gain, not to mention his ring appearances with some
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated PressNEW YORKThe New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of
After nearly twenty years of some of the most effective policing in America, a liberal federal judge has let political correctness trump common sense and slapped a set of legal handcuffs on the New York City Police Department. Stop and
In response to Violations: I think the magnitude of these NSA programs is one of the things that makes people nervous about them, Greg. A 1% margin of error is more significant when you’re talking about 100 million intercepts and
Associated Press: The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in
This past Sunday’s episode of the Aaron Sorkin/HBO series The Newsroom was entitled “Unintended Consequences,” and one of the major subplots involved Occupy Wall Street. The Newsroom continues to exist in an alternative universe; in Sorkin’s mind, not only was
Anthony Weiner has dropped to fourth place in a July 29 poll released by Quinnipiac University of the Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City, behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (27%), Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (21%), and
Anthony Weiner, speaking at Staten Island’s First Central Baptist Church Sunday to a largely black congregation the day after the George Zimmerman acquittal, criticized the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program and compared their actions to the Nazis in the late 1930’s. Last year,
A fight has broken out in New York City between police unions and the city council, which is now seeking a bill that would ban racial profiling, including profiling by “color, age, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, or housing status.”
Scant evidence exists that the favored liberal gun control measures have any impact on crime whatsoever. And, when you think about it, why should they, as the guns liberals want to control are virtually all owned by law-abiding, non-criminal members
New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie named New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa as the state’s new interim senator. Chiesa will fill the seat of the late Frank Lautenberg until residents elect a new Senator in a special election in October. Chiesa
By JAKE PEARSONAssociated PressNEW YORKInternal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
PIX11: “We deliver for you.” That is the slogan for the United States Postal Service. However, residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn say their snail mail is taking longer than usual to be delivered or in some cases, not at all. One
In defense of the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” procedure, a policy that has been criticized as racist by The New York Times and left-wing civil liberty groups like the NYCLU, New York Mayor Bloomberg threw the Race Card right back in their
On Tuesday afternoon, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the New York Times racist for their failure to cover the killing of Alphonza Bryant, a 17-year-old black teenager shot in the Bronx. “”There was not even a mention of
When the NYPD under Rudy Giuliani went after the Italian mob, Jamaican gangs or any other crime organization they went to their neighborhoods, restaurants and yes, churches. Civil rights were upheld. Legal wiretaps were used. Warrants were employed when necessary. So, what’s wrong with
While reports on Wednesday night suggested that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planned to head to New York after their bombing in order to “party,” newer information suggests that their party may have involved bombing Times
(AP) – Two New Jersey men were each sentenced to at least 20 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to conspiring to join an armed Islamic group in Somalia with ties to al-Qaida. Mohamed Alessa, of North Bergen, was
The apparently homeless New York man who made news around the world when a picture was taken of a NYPD cop giving him boots has his own apartment where a preacher friend pays his rent and also has more than thirty pairs
In a front page story, The New York Times intimated that race was a deciding factor in how the New York Police Department determines whom to stop in it’s proactive stop and frisk policy, which has helped drive crime down to
By COLLEEN LONGAssociated PressNEW YORKJay Victorino was standing outside his mother’s apartment when he was grabbed by police, and he says if she hadn’t come downstairs to identify him he would’ve been arrested on a trespassing charge. That’s because his
