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NYPD Officers To Be Equipped With Tablets In New Pilot Program
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York City police officers will soon be armed with a new crime-fighting tool: tablet computers. As WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday...
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NYPD Launching ‘Summer All Out’ Program To Combat Spike In Shootings
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has reacted to a recent spike in shootings by announcing a 90-day “Summer All Out” program. The program calls for as many as 400 veteran...
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Medical Examiner: Police Chokehold Killed Eric Garner, Death Ruled A Homicide
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The New York City Medical Examiner’s office has ruled that the chokehold by a police officer on a Staten Island man last month caused his death. Eric Garner’s July 17 death...
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Bratton Dismisses Report Of Return Of ‘Squeegee Men,’ Says They’ll Be ‘Taken...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The bad old days are not back. That’s the message Police Commissioner Bill Bratton delivered on “CBS This Morning” Friday, following a New York Post report claiming “Squeegee...
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German Artists Reportedly Claim Responsibility For Brooklyn Bridge White Flag...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Two German artists claim they are behind a stunt in which Old Glory was swapped out atop the Brooklyn Bridge in favor of white flags. Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke told...
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City Council To Ask Bratton For Outline On Implementing NYPD Officer...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has promised that all 35,000 NYPD officers will be retrained and the city council will ask him about the regiment at a September 8 hearing. As...
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5 NYC Police Precincts To Get Body Cameras Under Pilot Program
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will soon roll out a pilot program in five precincts and one housing project in which patrol officers will wear body cameras. One precinct in...
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Bratton, De Blasio Reassure New Yorkers They’re Safe Following Alleged ISIS...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris,...
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CA Lawmaker Touts Police Commissioner Bratton For Top Secret Service Post
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A California congresswoman wants New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to head the Secret Service. Los Angeles Democrat Janice Hahn said in a statement that Bratton...
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2 NYPD Officers Under Investigation After Video Shows Them Punching, Hitting...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Security video that captured the arrest of a teen drug suspect on a Brooklyn sidewalk has prompted an investigation of alleged abuse by two police officers. The New York...
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NYPD Officers Getting Smartphones, Tablets Under New Initiative
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York’s Finest are getting a new weapon in the war on crime: improved mobile communications. Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Manhattan District...
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Hatchet-Wielding Suspect Killed In Police-Involved Shooting In Queens
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police shot and killed a man in Jamaica, Queens Thursday after he allegedly hit an officer in the head with a hatchet. A bystander was accidentally struck by police gunfire...
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Bratton Warns: Police Body Camera Pilot Program Will Be Costly
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City is rolling out its pilot program that will equip police officers with body cameras. In September, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced 60 officers in five...
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Civilian Complaints Against NYC Police Down This Year
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Civilian complaints against New York City police are down this year, especially in the months since the chokehold death of an unarmed black man by a white officer, according...
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Cardinal Dolan Mourns Slain NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos, Wenjian Liu
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Cardinal Timothy Dolan called the deaths of two police officers ambushed in their car “brutal and irrational” and expressed his solidarity and love for their fellow officers....
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Bratton: Man Who Killed NYPD Cops Had Cash; Where From?
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said investigators are looking into how the gunman who killed two officers had money despite not appearing to have a job or a home. Bratton...
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Baggage Handler Accused Of Helping Smuggle Guns Aboard Delta Flights To NYC
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Brooklyn district attorney offered more details on Tuesday of a probe into alleged firearms trafficking from Atlanta to New York. A former Delta baggage handler,...
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PBA President: ‘No Resolve’ After Meeting Between Mayor, NYPD Union Leaders
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Mayor Bill de Blasio aimed to clear the air with police unions after rancor brewed over the shooting deaths of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and City Hall’s...
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De Blasio Touts 2014 Crime Reduction As Tensions With Police Unions Remain...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – While discussing record low crime in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the work of the NYPD and its commissioner — while tensions between the mayor and police unions...
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PBA Thanks ‘Real New Yorkers’ For Support In Full-Page Ad
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association is thanking New Yorkers for their support as tensions remain high between rank-and-file officers and Mayor Bill de Blasio. The message...
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Back In Their Good Graces? De Blasio Orders High-End Bulletproof Vests For...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It’s a pro-police move by Mayor Bill de Blasio. He’s not only going to get NYPD officers new bulletproof vests, he’s ordering the high-end model that is made to protect against...
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NYPD Chief Gerald Nelson Of Brooklyn North Retires After 41 Years
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With his colleagues cheering, NYPD Chief Gerald Nelson walked out of Brooklyn North Headquarters in uniform for the final time Friday. “It’s mixed emotions, of course it’s happy...
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Bratton Discusses Police Relations With African-American Community At Black...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police Commissioner Bill Bratton discussed police relations with the African-American community at a black history awards breakfast Tuesday morning. The event was held at...
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Bratton ‘Optimistic’ NYPD Will Get More Police Officers
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters Thursday he feels optimistic the NYPD will be getting more cops in the next city budget. “We are going to be seeking additional...
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19 Injured In Apparent Gas Explosion, Collapse At East Village Buildings
UPDATED 03/27/15 12:21 a.m. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A gas explosion ripped through four buildings and ended up leveling three of them, leaving a total of 19 people injured in a bustling section of the...
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City Council To Hear Proposed Changes To NYPD ‘Broken Windows’ Policing
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is expected to send a set of new proposals on the department’s “broken windows” policing to the City Council on Friday. Bratton defends that...
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De Blasio Slams Remarks From Ex-Commissioner Kelly Blaming Him For Violent Crime
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday fought back against comments from former police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who claimed that the mayor and the current police chief are responsible...
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NYPD Launches Another Crackdown On Quality-Of-Life Crimes
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Quality-of-life crimes are once again high on the NYPD’s agenda. The department has a new plan to deal with aggressive panhandlers and the homeless. But some residents have...
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Exclusive: Photos Show Homeless Man Taking Bath In Columbus Circle Fountain
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It was a shocking scene at one of the city’s most visited landmarks. CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer obtained exclusive images of what some call the latest public insult...
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Bratton Fires Back After Christie’s Comments On De Blasio’s Policies, NYC Crime
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is fighting back after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie claimed Mayor Bill de Blasio’s policies have increased crime in New York City. During an...
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NYPD Internal Affairs Investigates Controversial Sunset Park Arrest Caught On...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — NYPD Internal Affairs has launched an investigation after a controversial arrest caught on video in Brooklyn raised questions about the behavior of some NYPD officers. Around...
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Busted! Police Commissioner Bratton Sniffs Out Pot Smoker On Wall Street
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City’s top cop weeded out a pot smoker on the street this week. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he had just emerged from an early-morning Wall Street meeting when...
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7-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Honored For Paying Tribute To Police Officers
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD has honored a Brooklyn boy for his efforts to pay tribute to police officers. Seven-year-old Zachary Becerra of Williamsburg has been traveling to police station...
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City Honors NYPD Officer Killed 43 Years Ago With Street Renaming
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The street in front of the new police academy in Queens has been renamed in honor of a New York City police officer slain more than four decades ago. Patrolman Phillip Cardillo...
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NYPD Commissioner Bratton Slams Director Quentin Tarantino For Anti-Police...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is slamming director Quentin Tarantino for making anti-police comments as the city mourned the loss of a NYPD officer killed in the line of...
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De Blasio Concedes He Has Done A Poor Job ‘Explaining’ Homelessness Crisis
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said his “greatest failure” was doing a poor job explaining the homelessness problem to New Yorkers, and making them understand he is addressing...
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Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony Goes Off Without A Hitch
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was lit Wednesday night without incident. After Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California that claimed the lives of 14...
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Bratton Warns Law Breakers Will Be Arrested During SantaCon
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Police will be out in force and ready to arrest anyone who breaks the law during SantaCon, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton cautioned Friday. “Just an early warning to...
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Bratton On Gang Members: ‘They’re Very Stupid People’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As crime numbers for the year are tallied, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said gang violence remains a “pernicious problem” in the city. Of the 324 homicides recording through...
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Commissioner Bratton To Subway Riders: ‘Give Us Some Help’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)– While Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the city may have had its safest January ever, he also called on New Yorkers Wednesday to do their part to stay alert and reduce the...
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