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 ...

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 ...

A 45-year-old man was set on fire early Sunday near Times Square by an attacker he knew, the NYPD said. The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was taken from Broadway and 41st ...

The number of detectives in the NYPD has dropped below 5,000 for the first time since the pandemic – and union leaders warn that 1,600 more gumshoes could retire by the end of the year ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NYPD detective facing backlash for moonlighting as a video vixen has been removed from all active sex crime cases. According to the New York Post, Melissa Mercado, a seven-year NYPD veteran who ...

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 ...

The retired NYPD lieutenant who has accused former Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of coercing her into sex filed a complaint with Internal Affairs Monday over two leaked nude videos of her ...

The NYPD is searching for nine unidentified suspects involved in a robbery on a subway train in Manhattan last week. As reported by the NYPD Crimestoppers, the victim, a 28-year-old, was attacked ...

The incident in New Dorp Beach occurred around 4:30 p.m. in the vicinity of Hett Avenue and Beacon Place, according to a spokesman for the NYPD. The victim picked up two unidentified males and one ...