Faced with an exodus of officers retiring or quitting, the NYPD has been trying to get more potential recruits signed up to take the police examination, a crucial step in joining the department.

An ex-con on parole shot and wounded an NYPD detective before he was shot by police during a wild four-hour standoff on the Lower East Side early Tuesday, officials said. Detective Terry Avent ...

BAYSIDE, Queens (PIX11) – NYPD officers fatally shot a man armed with a handgun outside a police station in Queens Tuesday evening, officials said. The shooting happened at the 111th Precinct ...

The chief said police were still investigating why the man came to the station house and exactly how his conversation with the officer led to the shooting. The NYPD’s force investigation ...

LOWER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- An NYPD detective was shot Tuesday morning during a police standoff with a barricaded suspect at an apartment building on the Lower East Side. The officer has non-life ...

An NYPD police dog who “won hearts around the world” and helped secure the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has died, NYPD officials said Sunday. Gunner, a 9-year-old German shepherd who worked ...

A violent ex-con on parole shot and wounded an NYPD cop in a four-hour standoff with police at a Lower East Side public housing project early Tuesday morning, officials said. The NYPD Emergency ...

Police officers fatally shot a 79-year-old man Tuesday evening after he pointed a firearm at an officer outside an NYPD precinct in Queens, authorities said. The unidentified man exited a vehicle ...

The officers, showing restraints and not returning fire, backed out of the apartment and the suspect barricaded himself inside by pushing a couch up against the door, police said. The NYPD Hostage ...

In December 2023, seven police officers were injured, seven NYPD vehicles were damaged and dozens of other cars were wrecked when an allegedly stolen commercial box truck careened through several ...

The advent of NYPD body-worn cameras has greatly improved the quality of investigations into allegations of police misconduct, reducing the number of cases that have to be discarded because of ...