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One of New York City's most violent neighborhoods has banned uniformed police officers - all in the name of safety. A two-block corridor in a crime-plagued stretch of Brownsville, along Mother Gaston Boulevard, where shootings and robberies have long terrified residents, was declared a 'police-free zone' for five days earlier this month. Instead of officers, community patrols moved in under an arrangement funded by the city itself under a controversial initiative known as the Brownsville Safety Alliance (BSA). The project, once a twice-yearly pilot under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, now runs four times a year and aims to prove...

An off-duty NYPD officer shot a man who allegedly tried to rob her and her husband in Penn Station on Wednesday evening, according to sources. The cop was on her way home with her husband, a police officer who was also off-duty at the time, in the busy Midtown commuter hub around 7 p.m., when a 32-year-old male suspect allegedly attempted to rob the pair, sources said. She discharged a firearm and struck the suspect near Long Island Rail Road track 18, sources added. The robbery suspect was transported to a local hospital in stable condition, according to the NYPD....

A [b]lack screenwriter is blaming an "old white lady" for getting him kicked off a train ... he says he was racially profiled, but cops in New York say he refused to take his feet off a seat. Alex O'Keefe, who writes for the FX hit "The Bear," posted video of himself being confronted by MTA police officers while on a train from NYC to Connecticut ... and he says a "Karen" complained and told him "to correct how I was sitting."

The Los Angeles Police Department has pulled its cops from a security detail at Kamala Harris’ Brentwood, California home after outrage that crime-fighting units were being diverted to guard the former vice president. A dozen Metro Division officers had been stationed outside Harris’ mansion after President Trump revoked her Secret Service protection last week, ending an extension through which had been quietly granted by President Biden. By Saturday, the backup was gone, sources told the Los Angeles Times. The short-lived detail drew fury inside the department after LAPD officers were pulled from crime suppression in the San Fernando Valley to...

Police officers in Jacksonville, Florida arrived at the home of a 44-year-old deaf man after a reported domestic disturbance. Despite knowing the man was deaf, officers immediately began shouting orders, which they knew could not be heard - or easily followed. Within seconds, they slammed the man onto the ground and continued shouting un-heard orders, as the man cried out that he had done nothing wrong. Afterwards, the officers mocked the deaf man, telling him that he should have "just listened."

The NYPD officer shot and killed by a deranged gunman inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday was identified as a “hero” dad and nearly four-year department veteran – whose wife is about to give birth to their third child, officials and sources said. Married father-of-two Didarul Islam, 36, was remembered as a dedicated family man who loved putting on the uniform after he was senselessly murdered by 27-year-old Shane Tamura inside 345 Park Avenue, heartbroken city leaders said during a press conference. “He was doing what he does best and all members of the police department carry out, he was...

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters released body camera footage of the violent arrest of William Anthony McNeil, Jr., a 22-year-old [black]... arrested and charged with "resisting arrest without violence to his or her person," possessing not more than 20 grams of marijuana with intent to use drug paraphernalia, driving while driver's license is suspended, not wearing a seatbelt and no headlights in rain/fog/or smoke.

This is the shocking moment a cop smashes a man's car window before hitting him in the head after he was pulled over "for not having his headlights on". Footage of the aggressive traffic stop in Jacksonville, Florida, has gone viral on social media. The video was posted to Instagram by @904will, who wrote he was pulled over in February over his car's headlights - despite there being "no rain, smoke or fog". Footage shows the driver questioning an officer - who is out of shot - on why he was pulled over. The driver can be heard saying: "There's...

My dad is a retired NYPD cop, he's 85 now and not in the best of health with his heart. I can't show this to him because he will lose it, go completely nuts with rage. That this is being allowed in a city where 3000 people were murdered by Islamic vermin on 911 including NYPD police officers is absolutely outrageous and disgusting.

NYPD officers are warning of a mass exodus from the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor — a move they say would throw New York City into a full-blown public safety disaster. Multiple officers tell me they’re already preparing for early retirement, and many others are considering walking off the job. “We’re barely holding the line as it is,” one veteran officer said. “If Zohran Mamdani wins, I’m gone — and so are a lot of others. We’re not sticking around to watch this place burn.” Officers are deeply alarmed by Zohran Mamdani’s agenda, which they say includes plans...

A boozed-up wrong-way driver flipped his car and slammed into a tree on Long Island Sunday night, killing a 19-year-old woman and injuring six other passengers, authorities said. Luis Gonzalo Barrionuevo-Fuertes, a former East Hampton High School graduate, was allegedly behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry while driving in the wrong direction on Old Stone Highway in East Hampton when he swerved to avoid slamming into another car around 7:30 p.m. The car overturned and struck a tree, killing 19-year-old passenger Scarleth Urgiles, East Hampton police said. The East Hampton High School student was pronounced dead at the scene.

You’d think the job of a state attorney general is to hunt down bad guys, or at least help other law-enforcement nab them, but just try telling that to New York AG Letitia James — who’s now busy targeting good guys, i.e, local law-enforcement officials who (heaven forfend!) even think about helping the feds detain illegal immigrants. As The Post exclusively reported, James has demanded that Oswego County’s Sheriff’s Office hand over documents that may show cooperation with federal agencies such as ICE and Homeland Security. This follows her similar bullying of Nassau County’s Sheriff’s Office in the wake of...

State Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a misconduct probe of a New York local law enforcement agency helping the Trump administration crack down on illegal immigration, The Post has learned. The AG’s office asked Oswego County Sheriff Don Hilton for documents outlining any cooperation between local law enforcement officials and federal agencies, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security. A letter from the office asked Oswego County Sheriff Don Hilton to turn over any agreements between the office and any federal agency “concerning the enforcement of federal immigration law” – and it also asks...

New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have reportedly endured a 63-percent rise in assaults over the past six years. A New York Post article published on Saturday reported the alarming numbers of assaults on cops and numerous instances of the Big Apple’s officers being injured. The outlet continued: There have been 970 assaults on uniformed police officers in the city so far this year, up from the 595 officers attacked at the same point in pre-pandemic 2019, NYPD data show. The number of assaulted cops, which includes all city law enforcement officers, is up 57% so far this year...

Authorities have ruled the mysterious deaths of twin 19-year-old brothers found fatally shot on a Georgia mountain a double suicide. The bodies of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis from Lawrenceville, a suburb of Atlanta, were discovered on March 8 around 90 miles away in Hiawassee, at the summit of Bell Mountain, close to the North Carolina border. The teens had planned to fly to Boston to visit their friends on the morning of March 7, but 24 hours later, they were found dead in a remote part of the state they had never visited before, their family said....

Shocking police bodycam footage showed the fatal officer-involved shooting of an armed Afghan man during a traffic stop last month. Jamal Wali, 36, was pulled over by a Fairfax, Virginia, police officer for an expired inspection tag last month when things turned deadly. Wali informed the officer he was armed before going on an insane rant about how much he hates the United States.

She is definitely not ready for her close-up. A stylish woman in heels and a leather jacket used scissors to stab an amateur photographer who accidently captured an image of her as he took photos in the West Village, cops said. The sunglasses and dress-wearing brunette flew into a Britney Spears-level paparazzi rage on Varick Street near West Houston Street around 4:20 p.m. May 5 as the 36-year-old victim was out shooting images for social media. First, she slugged him on his shoulder — before flashing a pair of scissors and stabbing him in the back, police said. The woman...

Move over Karmelo Anthony, there’s a new accused killer darling on the scene. Rodney Hinton, Jr., a black man from Ohio, reportedly ran down a retired white police officer who was directing traffic for a college graduation—and Hinton has garnered generous support, both from the black community and the left. The officer allegedly murdered by Hinton was a man named Larry Henderson, a public servant who dedicated more than three decades of his life to his community, serving across a number of different law enforcement agencies. Prosecutors allege a “calculated and premeditated” motive: just prior to Hinton running Henderson down,...

A lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office was arrested by the City of Miami Police Department, Local 10 News learned Tuesday. “It’s a superfluous charge that was unnecessary,” Daniel Chala said... The false imprisonment charge, however, was dropped in bond court Tuesday. Chala’s arrest report details the allegations against him, stating that officers responded to his apartment building Monday morning where they found the victim who said that she had been assaulted by Chala.

Anti-Israel protesters Sunday clashed with cops outside a Brooklyn synagogue where Israel’s embattled security minister was set to speak — with the speech ending up canceled and at least one arrest. The protest outside Congregation Shaare ZIon on Ocean Parkway turned violent shortly after 9:30 a.m. as NYPD officers and some members of the crowd scuffled while the rowdy mob demonstrated against Sunday’s scheduled speech by Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The speech was nixed, and the under-fire minister is now set to return home a day early, the Israeli outlet Haaretz reported. The violent clash came two days after...