Lefty city comptroller and mayoral hopeful Brad Lander — who once pushed a $1 billion “defund the police” cut to the NYPD — is changing his tune on fighting crime. Lander unveiled a public safety ...

The NYPD is lowering its college credit requirement from 60 to 24 to address a hiring crisis. With officer numbers dropping ...

Effective immediately, the prerequisite requirement to enter the police academy will drop from 60 to 24 college credits, ...

The number of detectives in the NYPD has dropped below 5,000 for the first time since a dip during the pandemic – and union ...

Though the comptroller disagrees with Mayor Eric Adams on many things, he emphasized one major point of agreement: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. She took over the department in November, and ...

The plan outlined by Lander calls to bring the NYPD up to its fully budgeted officer positions in part by opening cadet program to high school graduates without college credits, who can start ...

First, he said he’d as mayor allow high school graduates to enter the NYPD’s cadet program contingent on them enrolling at a CUNY school or other partner college and in exchange be offered a $5,000 ...

First, he said he’d as mayor allow high school graduates to enter the NYPD’s cadet program contingent on them enrolling at a CUNY school or other partner college and in exchange be offered a $ ...