Felonies recorded in New York City’s CompStat crime database are down, but emergency rooms are seeing more victims of assaults.
A Bronx resident injured in a street confrontation between an armed man and officers who fired 46 times filed notice of his intention to seek damages from the city.
An early-morning confrontation that left one man dead, and five others wounded, including two officers, included a fusillade of 46 shots from the police.
Wilfredo Rosario, described by a prosecutor as “a selfish, narcissistic predator,” was convicted of sexually abusing two women and trying to coerce a third to give him oral sex.
Joseph Force Crater vanished 80 years ago this week, but the novelist Peter Quinn tied up the loose ends.
The investigation concluded that the department should examine its handling of a domestic violence case involving a senior aide to the governor.
The police said they were investigating the deaths of the woman, 37, and her son in the Morris Heights neighborhood as a possible murder-suicide.
Duane P. Kerzic was stopped by the Amtrak police while taking pictures of a train that he was preparing to enter in a photo contest sponsored by the railroad itself.
Some wonder how a New York State law barring the police from keeping computerized records on people stopped on the street and released will be enforced.