In spring of 1918, the New York Police Department established the Aviation Division Reserve as an unpaid, volunteer force. Utilizing volunteer aviators and war-surplus aircraft, the division was meant ...

After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said. This ...

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"As far as where I am, I'm on the fifth floor. They call it ‘the memory unit,’ so it's for people who don't remember anything." "I've met the people who live here and I've been here for almost ...

If Adams was troubled by the unit’s actions, he hasn’t shown it. Instead, for more than two years, the mayor has repeatedly championed the CRT and his allies who run it, even as NYPD officials ...

Eyewitness News is exclusively hearing from the woman at the center of a scandal that rocked the NYPD. The woman, an NYPD lieutenant, accused the highest-ranking uniformed member of the force of ...

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 ...

The New York City Fire Department controlled a brush fire at Gerritsen Beach on Saturday. The Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department and the FDNY Marine Unit were on hand, along with the Police ...

NYPD detective Melissa Mercado is facing internal ... Mercado—who previously worked on active sex crimes cases in the Special Victims Unit—has been temporarily removed from investigative ...

NYPD: Man critically injured in Cypress Hills hit-and-run Authorities say the victim was riding a moped when a red SUV struck him at the corner of Etna Street and Hale Avenue. Rob Flaks ...

According to New York Post, Melissa Mercado, the NYPD detective, had gone viral after starring "in a raunchy rap video while twerking in a thong and skimpy bra". Police sources told the outlet ...

NYPD detective Melissa Mercado, who appeared in raunchy rap video, will no longer probe active cases in sex crimes unit (Melissa Mercado/Instagram) Pitch Perfect told TMZ that he and the rapper ...