Luis "Baby" Ortiz, who is accused of shooting NYPD officer Kevin Brennan in the head Tuesday night at the Bushwick Houses, showed no remorse as he was escorted out of the 90th Precinct station house yesterday afternoon. "Yeah, take a picture of me," Ortiz, 21, told photographers during the perp walk as he smiled, blew kisses to family and friends, and mugged for the cameras. In Spanish, he yelled "I love the Latin Kings," adding, "You know what it is," according to the Daily News. His angry supporters also showed little remorse. more ›

A police officer was shot in the head around 9 p.m. tonight in Brooklyn, and there's currently a massive police mobilization in search of the shooter. Apparently, two anti-crime police officers saw a man with a gun by the Bushwick Houses; WPIX reports, "They gave chase and followed the suspect into an enclosed area where the man wheeled and fired, striking one of the officers in the head, police said." more ›

[Update below] Details are starting to emerge about yesterday's off-duty cop shooting in the Bronx. Though the officer in question has not been identified, we now know that the 43-year-old detective, a fifteen-year member of the force, had celebrated his son's first birthday before the incident. After the celebration, the cop, his girlfriend and friends went to the Pelham Bay Diner for an late-night snack. And that's where he was shot with a bullet that pierced both of his buttocks. more ›

Around 5 a.m., an off-duty cop was shot in the back in the Bronx, outside of the Pelham Bay Diner. According to WABC 7, "The off-duty officer was reportedly involved in a fight in the parking lot. It's not clear if he was trying to break up a fight or if he was an active participant in the altercation." more ›

An unidentified MTA cop was putting her gun back in the locker when she accidentally pulled the trigger and shot another officer in the stomach yesterday. According to the Post, the incident happened around 3 p.m. inside an administrative building near the RFK Bridge. The victim of the oopsy fire, who also remains unidentified, was standing nearby when the bullet ricocheted inside the locker and a slice of metal—which may have been a bullet fragment or piece of locker shrapnel—hit him in the gut. more ›

Around 8 p.m. last night, plainclothes cops pulled over a teenager for riding his bike on the sidewalk in East New York. When Elijah Foster-Bay, 17, realized he was being stopped by police, "he immediately threw down the bike and ran," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters at a press conference at Kings County Hospital last night. Police Officer Richard Ramirez, 29, and two other officers gave chase, finally cornering Foster-Bay when he ran into a building at 454 Bradford Street. That's when the suspect opened fire, according to Kelly, who showed off the German-made gun at the presser. more ›

Black leaders expressed frustration yesterday after a grand jury voted not to indict Officer Andrew Dunton in the fatal "friendly fire" shooting of fellow Officer Omar Edwards one rainy night in Harlem at the end of May. The Black Law Enforcement Alliance called the decision "disturbingly predictable," and demanded that investigations of police shootings be independent of the Police Department and the district attorney’s office: "The relationship between the police and the local prosecutors is incestuous and threatens public confidence in the integrity of the process." more ›

Two police officers were injured in a confrontation with an armed suspect at the 21st Street and 41st Avenue subway station in Queensbridge around 5:00 p.m. WCBS 2 reports one cop was shot in the abdomen (his condition is critical; he is undergoing surgery) and the other was grazed by a bullet (he is stbale). the suspect was also shot in the leg. The F is currently bypassing the station and cops have flooded the area; according to the Daily News, "Swarms of cops were searching neighboring housing projects and canvassing stores in the area, though it was not immediately clear if they were hunting for additional suspects." Update: Reports now say that the suspect reached for one of the two plainclothes transit officers' guns after they approached him for illegally using a discount Metrocard and fired at the cops. more ›