Two NYPD detectives allege in a bombshell lawsuit filed Saturday that they have become modern day Serpicos – investigating ...

NYPD cops won’t chase ... a staggering rise in NYPD car chases, many of which led to devastating crashes that left innocent New Yorkers injured or dead. Police pursuits jumped nearly 600% ...

The NYPD is now rolling out new guidelines restricting police car chases to cases involving the most serious and violent crimes. Pursuits will no longer be permitted for traffic violations and ...

including inside two subway stations and a police car. The NYPD said the man set a police car on fire shortly after 2 a.m. Friday before igniting a second fire that damaged a vehicle in front of ...

In December, we reported that the number of car chases by New York Police Department officers skyrocketed under Mayor Eric Adams, accompanied by a rise in the crash rate for NYPD vehicles.

In 2024, there were 2,278 police car pursuits, 25% of which resulted in collisions, property damage or personal loss or injury, according to NYPD data. Officials said 67% of such collisions ...

For years, one of the key issues with police pursuits has been the department ... criminals going as far as to do donuts around NYPD patrol cars who then didn’t give chase.

NYPD car chases have surged during the Adams administration as police tried to curtail the use of ghost cars — vehicles with fake license plates — since many of those cars are used in crimes ...

This file photo from Dec. 30,, 2023, shows a damaged NYPD police car which was in pursuit of a vehicle when it crashed and caught fire. (Owen Reiter for the Staten Island Advance)(Owen Reiter for ...

according to the NYPD. Among those pursuits, 67% were the result of a person fleeing a car stop, which would no longer be allowed under the new policy. Last October, a woman was killed when she was ...