The NY Times looks at NYPD firearms use between 1996 and 2006, finding that though cops are using their guns less these days, "when they do fire, even at an armed suspect, there is often no one returning fire at the officers. Officers hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time." The NYPD only recently released the information, which the New York Civil Liberties Union says "raises serious questions about police shooting practices and......

While an 11-year-old boy remain in critical condition after being shot in the face, Suffolk Country police believe his father was the real target. Newsday reports that Jeffrey Langhorn's father had apparently "fought with" a group of men "before one of them fired three shots." Suffolk Detective Edward Reilly said the father, also named Jeffrey Langhorne, had a machete and "began tussling with one or two of the men." The boy, who was sick and......

A mother of three young children was fatally shot when she stopped by a makeshift shrine for a rapper who was killed last week. Police say 27-year-old Nancy Williams was hit by apparently random gunfire behind the Stuyvesant Garden Houses on Gates Avenue. Fans of rapper Leval Lyde had gathered to remember him a week four days after he was gunned down on Clinton and Fulton Avenues. A cop explained to the Post, "They were......

A teenager hanging out with his friends in Brooklyn apartment was shot in the head when one starting playing with a gun yesterday afternoon. The victim, Marquise Perez, described as being either 13- or 15-years-old, is in "extremely critical condition" at Kings County Hospital. Apparently, an adult was home - Perez's 41-year-old cousin Victoria Rodriguez who lives in the Howard Avenue apartment - but the group of teens were in the back room. One of......