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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: New York City Police Department
According to the department, its mission is to "enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment." Primarily, this involves preventing and responding to crime.
The New York City Transit Police and Housing Police were fully integrated into the NYPD in 1995; some new police officers are randomly assigned to the Transit and Housing units.
In New York, the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg persuaded a federal judge in 2003 to enlarge the Police Department's authority to conduct investigations of political, social and religious groups.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-York-City-Police-Department   (1109 words)

  
 New York City Police Department
New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which is located in World Trade Center Building 7, organizes a bio-terrorism drill where militant extremists attack the city with bubonic plague and Manhattan is quarantined.
He is in contact with New York Governor George Pataki, high-ranking New York Police Department officers, and Navy Admiral Robert Natter, the commander of the US Atlantic Fleet (see (Shortly After 9:59 a.m.) September 11, 2001).
The New York Police and FBI are investigating the theft of over 250 tons of steel from the remains of the collapsed WTC towers.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=new_york_city_police_department   (2111 words)

  
  t r u t h o u t - New York Police Covertly Join In at Protest Rallies
In New York, the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg persuaded a federal judge in 2003 to enlarge the Police Department's authority to conduct investigations of political, social and religious groups.
The case, known as Handschu for the lead plaintiff, was settled in 1985 when the city agreed to extraordinary new limits in the investigation of political organizations, among them the creation of an oversight panel that included a civilian appointed by the mayor.
On Sept. 12, 2002, the deputy police commissioner for intelligence, David Cohen, wrote in an affidavit that the police should not be required to have a "specific indication" of a crime before investigating.
www.truthout.org /docs_2005/122205K.shtml   (2385 words)

  
 Getting Guns Off the Streets, New York City Police Department -- New York, NY
The strategies are based on aggressive policing tactics, with a tough new managerial style that emphasizes both empowerment and accountability at the precinct level.
New York City has some of the most restrictive local licensing requirements for Federal firearm dealers in the country.
Police departments from across the country and around the world have begun to apply some of the crime-fighting strategies used by NYPD, including its gun strategy and data collection and analysis techniques.
ojjdp.ncjrs.org /pubs/gun_violence/profile19.html   (958 words)

  
 Police Reserves Program
With the atrocities witnessed in New York City on September 11, 2001, it is especially essential for the New York City Police Department to be prepared for further terrorist actions and have a civil defense force accessible which is superior to none.
The New York State Public Officers Law would require that any person employed as a Reserve Police Officer in the New York City Police Department must be a resident of the City of New York or of Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or Putnam counties.
Members of the Police Reserve Program will be subject to the order of the regularly constituted authority of the City and will be directly responsible to the Police Commissioner and officers of the regular police department under his command and to the officers of the police Reserve.
www.nycop.com /Police_Reserves_Program/body_police_reserves_program.html   (4886 words)

  
  New York City Police Department at AllExperts
The NYPD is headed by the New York City Police Commissioner, a civilian administrator appointed by the Mayor of New York City, with the senior sworn uniformed member of the service titled, the "Chief of Department".
Gun control problems in the city came to the forefront during the last two weeks of 2005, when two officers were shot to death by criminals using illegal weapons.
Corruption in the department is investigated by Internal Affairs.
en.allexperts.com /e/n/ne/new_york_city_police_department.htm   (4059 words)

  
 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - Port Authority Police
Police personnel assigned to fire and rescue duty are highly trained in all phases of these functions including the operation of sophisticated and complex equipment, fire fighting vehicles and water rescue equipment.
The Koebel Memorial Police Firearms Training Center is dedicated to the memory of Police Officer Henry J. Koebel, who was killed in the line of duty in May of 1978.
The Police Force is organized into individual operating units, or facilities, each headed by its own facility commander and specially trained for tasks relevant to where they are placed in the field.
www.panynj.gov /AboutthePortAuthority/PortAuthorityPolice   (1599 words)

  
 Preventing Police Corruption: Lessons from the New York City Police Department - Gareth Newham
Consequently, it was recognised that the phenomenon of corruption is inherent in the occupation of policing.
Such structures are staffed by police officers who are intimately familiar with the culture of the organisation and are best placed to work out how to identify and collect evidence against a corrupt police officer and ensure that this individual is subject to the necessary criminal or disciplinary processes.
New managers learn about ethical dilemmas from a management perspective in a programme called "It's your move serge!" Here they are presented with a management dilemma and have to respond to the ethical challenges it presents.
www.csvr.org.za /papers/papnypd.htm   (5110 words)

  
 Cutting Crime and Restoring Order: What America Can Learn from New York's Finest
American police forces began to measure their impact, not on what crime they were preventing, but on how they were responding to crime -- which was a sea change in terms of how the police were policing American cities and why they were invented in the first place.
In Boston, as Superintendent of the Boston Police in 1980, I had the unenviable responsibility for laying off 25 percent of the police force, closing half of their police facilities, and reducing the overall size of the department from the 2,800 officers when I joined in 1970 to 1,544 in the summer of 1982.
Police officers are the most effective when they are responding to citizens' needs and working with citizens on determining priorities, as well as when they are working as part of government.
www.heritage.org /Research/Crime/HL573.cfm   (8987 words)

  
 NYCPM
Police Commissioner Raymond J. Kelly is the 41th Police Commissioner of the City of New York.
Police Officers have been officially carrying firearms while on duty since 1887, Rule 503 of the "Manual of Rules and Regulations" stated: "In addition to the ordinary baton of the patrolman each member of the Police Force shall be armed while on duty with a revolving pistol of pattern and caliber approved by the board."
In 1901 the department rule changed to "each, member of the patrol force shall be armed on duty with a revolving pistol of.38 caliber…stamped with a number corresponding to the shield number of the officer." Officers of the force were exempt from the new rule and allowed to continue carrying their.32 caliber revolver.
www.nycpolicemuseum.org /html/faq.html   (2405 words)

  
 How to Run a Police Department by George L. Kelling, City Journal Autumn 1995
New York City officials are scrambling to undo the Legislature's blunder, which threatens to subvert the city government's biggest success in years.
Police, in support of "cleaning" operations, would eject the "homeless." This, of course, was a transparent ruse designed to evade serious constitutional, moral, and practical concerns.
Anecdotes about how well the policy works abound in the department, passed on from cop to cop with the same enthusiasm that transit police felt five years ago when they started arresting fare-beaters at the orders of their then-boss, Bratton, and discovered that these seemingly inconsequential lawbreakers often turned out to be carrying illegal weapons.
www.city-journal.org /html/5_4_how_to_run.html   (5383 words)

  
 New York City Police Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police department in the United States, the largest municipal police force in the world, and has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within The Five Boroughs of New York City.
Corruption in the department is investigated by Internal Affairs.
Pay for new officers fell precipitously in the latest contract negotiations as the result of a judge's decree, and new hires now earn $25,100, the lowest salary for a new police officer since 1985.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department   (4750 words)

  
 United States of America: Police brutality and excessive force in the New York City Police Department - Amnesty ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Police regulations also state that any officer at the scene of a police incident has an obligation to ensure that the law and regulations are complied with, and to intervene if the use of force against a subject becomes excessive.
Police Commissioner William Bratton questioned the CCRBs statistics, stating that part of the increase was due to the merger of the NYPD with the Transit and Housing police.
New York State law requires the trial record to be sealed in the case of anyone acquitted at a state criminal trial.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/engAMR510361996   (16496 words)

  
 RAND | Reports | Minority Recruiting in the New York City Police Department: Part I. The Attraction of Candidates; Part ...
The Police Department increased the proportion of minority group recruits from 8 percent in 1957 to 18 percent in 1969.
Nonetheless, since the city population is 31 percent fl and Puerto Rican, further efforts at minority recruiting are required.
Advertisements in the [Daily News] and on subway posters, use of existing organizations of minority group policemen, and greater personal contact with applicants by the Police Department appear to be the best approaches.
www.rand.org /pubs/reports/R0702   (451 words)

  
 1 No. 30: In the Matter of Scott Fappiano v. New York City Police Department
The police departments, citing Civil Rights Law §; 50-b(1), refused the requests in their entirety.
Petitioners commenced CPLR article 78 proceedings to compel the police departments to comply with their requests arguing that, although section 50-b(1) bars disclosure of information that tends to identify the victim of a sex crime, the exception in section 50-b(2)(a) allowing disclosure to persons "charged" with a sex offense applied to them.
Notwithstanding our holding, we conclude that respondent police departments did not meet their burden of showing that the statutory privilege of Civil Rights Law §; 50-b applies to all of the records that petitioners seek (Gould v NYC Police Dept.,, 89 NY2d 267).
www.law.cornell.edu /nyctap/I01_0030.htm   (1974 words)

  
 New York City Transit Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Established in 1935, the New York City Transit Police Department was responsible for the protection of New York City Subway lines for 60 years.
In 1949 the department was officially divorced from the New York City Police Department, but was eventually fully re-integrated in 1995 as the Transit Bureau of the New York City Police Department by New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Graffiti was very prominent throughout the subway system by the mid-1980s and the city government took a hard line in response, though some saw it instead as a "social trend" and a sign of diversity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_Transit_Police   (262 words)

  
 CNN.com - New York subway system on alert - Oct 6, 2005
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City's subway system was put under heightened alert Thursday after officials received information from the FBI about a "specific threat," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The news came 10 days after the arrest of nine people in France allegedly plotting attacks on the Paris subway, an airport and an intelligence agency's headquarters.
www.cnn.com /2005/US/10/06/newyork.subways/index.html   (1035 words)

  
 Getting Guns Off the Streets, New York City Police Department -- New York, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The strategies are based on aggressive policing tactics, with a tough new managerial style that emphasizes both empowerment and accountability at the precinct level.
New York City has some of the most restrictive local licensing requirements for Federal firearm dealers in the country.
Police departments from across the country and around the world have begun to apply some of the crime-fighting strategies used by NYPD, including its gun strategy and data collection and analysis techniques.
www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org /pubs/gun_violence/profile19.html   (958 words)

  
 Mercedes-Benz Donates Mountain Bikes To New York City Police Department - Popular Mechanics
We support community policing, which has proven to be one of the most effective methods of reducing crime in both urban and suburban environments.'
Community policing traces its roots to neighborhood police officers who walked a beat and knew, and were known by, local residents and merchants.
The expansion of bike patrols and community policing activities is designed to make streets safer, reduce crime, increase real estate values and business growth.
www.popularmechanics.com /outdoors/adventures/1276751.html   (573 words)

  
 New York City Police Department National Service Police Cadet Corps
Economically disadvantaged high-crime neighborhoods in New York City.
Internal evaluation conducted by the New York City Police Department.
Cadets will work with the police on "community-oriented problem solving." Problems identified by community residents include fear of using public facilities, chronic homelessness in parks, loitering youths, illegal street peddlers, and a high incidence of domestic violence.
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 The New York City Police Department's "Stop & Frisk" Practices   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Attorney General of the State of New York
Policing Theory in New York City: From "Community Policing" to COMPSTAT
Police Attitudes Toward the Public: A Look at Recent NYPD Survey Data
www.oag.state.ny.us /press/reports/stop_frisk/stop_frisk.html   (258 words)

  
 Should New York City Secede
New York is already an island off the coast of the United States.
We’d be a great trading hub, the city Hong Kong was before it was handed back to China; an international capital of media and entertainment where news, books, and watchable films were peddled and made; and a diplomatic outpost, mediating between that lone superpower the United States and the rest of the globe.
And New York City—home to 600,000 Muslims, cauldron of more than 160 foreign languages, birthplace of Jonas Salk, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the brothers Gershwin, the telegraph machine, the hot dog—would no longer be identified with a country the rest of the planet hates, fears, and cannot understand.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/rnc/9573   (1018 words)

  
 NY Police, Privacy Advocates Clash Over Surveillance Cameras - Technology News by InformationWeek
Police want to surround the Big Apple with a "ring of steel," while the New York Civil Liberties Union claims that the plan infringes on civil liberties.
City officials said during a news conference last week that they are trying to recoup some of the costs through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
City leaders have said more digital surveillance cameras would help protect New York City from terrorist attacks, but civil liberties advocates believe they will photograph license plates of all cars entering certain areas and send the information to databases.
www.informationweek.com /news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184400377   (416 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Police Divide -- February 28, 2000
New York is still dealing with the acquittal of four officers in the shooting death of an unarmed man. Following a background report, Ray Suarez leads two discussions with law enforcement officials.
And the report by the New York state attorney general shows that there's a fairly large number of stops and frisks by members of this unit that turn up absolutely nothing.
And those steps really include reform of many of the police procedures that gave rise to this terrible shooting, but also gave rise to the extraordinary number of stop and frisk actions which not only provoked an investigation by New York state's attorney general, but also the Department of Justice itself.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/jan-june00/diallo_2-28.html   (2818 words)

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