Director Mark Rydell (“On Golden Pond”) is 96. Singer Chaka Khan is 72. Actor Amanda Plummer is 68. Actor Catherine Keener is ...

New York’s Finest’s often spotty responses to 311 calls will be tracked under a new NYPD “quality of life” crackdown, police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tuesday. Many quality of life ...

The NYPD has reduced the number of college credits required to join the force, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Wednesday. Incoming recruits only need 24 college credits, a steep drop ...

A person was shot by NYPD officers who were apparently trying to break up a fight in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, police said, stressing the preliminary nature of the investigation. A report of ...

A new federal lawsuit claims the NYPD License Division’s “excessive, unreasonable, and unjustifiable delays” in handling firearm permit applications are a violation of New Yorkers’ Second ...

The NYPD is launching a three-pronged effort to beef up the dwindling ranks of New York’s Finest, including reinstating a timed-run requirement and a reduced college credit condition.

In an effort to address a “hiring crisis,” the NYPD is rolling out a three-part plan aimed at recruiting more candidates and modernizing education requirements, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch ...

An NYPD officer executing a search warrant was shot in the shoulder during a standoff with a gun suspect in Manhattan Tuesday, authorities said. The suspect, a 35-year-old "violent repeat offender ...

The elderly man, behind the wheel of a white Lexus, pulled up outside the NYPD’s 111th Precinct stationhouse on the corner of 215th St. and Northern Blvd. in Bayside around 6:40 p.m., NYPD Chief ...

Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division was pulled from active investigations after appearing in a controversial rap video by S-Quire. The video, seen as degrading to women ...

New York City last year paid out over $205 million to settle allegations of police misconduct — the highest in years — according to an analysis by the city's Legal Aid Society intended to show ...