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Sergeant shot in Queens released from hospital

Wounded NYPD Sergeant Out Of Hospital – NBC News New York – The wounded sergeant is the 10th member of the NYPD shot while on the job this year, according to the department. The NYPD sergeant who was shot in both legs while chasing a suspect down a narrow alley this week is out of [...]

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Thousands rally on Father’s Day to protest NYPD’s controversial ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy

Thousands marched in silence down Fifth Avenue on Father’s Day to protest the New York Police Department’s controversial “Stop & Frisk” program—a policing tactic critics say unfairly singles out young black and Latino men. As DNAinfo reported, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently defended “Stop & Frisk” to parishioners in Brownsville, Brooklyn on June 10. “There are some who [...]

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NYCLU analysis: 96 percent of students arrested over three-month period were black or Hispanic

FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens – For many public school students in Queens, walking through metal detectors and passing by NYPD Safety Agents in the morning is part of the daily routine. Occasionally for some students, that routine is broken. According to an analysis released by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Wednesday, 15 students [...]

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NYPD cop arrested during Mets game at Citi Field

Cop arrested at Mets game – AM New York - “An off-duty NYPD cop trying to move to a better seat in the middle of a Mets game Wednesday night was arrested on trespassing charges. Citi Field security guards busted Eduardo Cornejo slipping into a closer seat at around 9:15 p.m., according to a criminal complaint. Cornejo [...]

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Police find weapons arsenal at Long Island home near JFK airport

[View Larger Map] The Associated Press and NBC New York reported today that police investigating a house (on Narrow Lane in Woodmere— shown above) for marijuana found a weapons arsenal comprised of guns, grenades and bomb-making material. Police officers went to the home on Narrow Lane in Woodmere after an alarm went off Tuesday afternoon [...]

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