Two female NYPD cops did some serious damage to a Bronx man early Friday night, allegedly pistol whipping him during a road rage incident. Michelle Anglin, 37, and Koleen Robinson, 24, were off-duty when they became enraged at 35-year-old Marlon Smith for leaving the driver’s door of his Suburban open, almost scraping Robinson's SUV, the Daily News reports. F bombs and A bombs were promptly fired at Smith by the cops. When he responded with......

Free Williamsburg posted this photograph of some cops restraining someone during Saturday night's Pandamonium. There's also some video of the confrontation and one witness account that questions the force used by the NYPD, "Then a cop grabbed the guy with the boom box by the back of his arm and yanked him into the street, pushing him to the ground and making him [lose] grip of the stereo...The stereo fell, batteries flying everywhere, and when......

Part intro to Yiddish slang, part feature on some new NYPD cadets, the Post reveals that there are ten "NYPD CHOSEN GUNS"--as in Orthodox Jewish cadets-- in this year's class. While many of the cadets say their parents were verklempt, many explain it's just been a dream (and that they'll wear their yarmulkes under the police hat). However, one cadet, Shmuel Tenenbaum said would like to work in an non-Orthodox neighborhood to avoid anyone thinking......

The NYCLU says the NYPD’s “Operation Sentinel,” which would install permanent license plate scanners at each of the 20 crossings into Manhattan, is an unnecessary invasion of privacy. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly wants to form a security ring around the World Trade Center that would make London’s famed “Ring of Steel” look like a velvet rope guarded by Don Knotts. And besides installing radiation detectors that could spot a dirty bomb, the Daily News reports......

Photograph by Pro-Zak on Flickr The NYPD is serious about security in this post-9/11 world, and, amongst many elements in a proposal called "Operation Sentinel,"is the plan to photograph every single car coming into NYC. The NY Times reports that the goal is to "strengthen the city’s guard against a potential terror attack." Vehicles would be photographed, license plates scanned, and checked for radioactivity. Cameras would be set up at bridges and tunnels. The......

A surveillance video surfaced capturing Ortanzso Bovell inside a stolen car sideswiping an NYPD lieutenant who then accidentally fired his gun, killing Bovell. The video backs up the account given by Lt. John Chell of the incident that took place in East New York on Thursday night. Bovelliwas pulled over when a police scan of his license plate matched that of a vehicle reported stolen in New Jersey on Wednesday. Bovell had more than a......

Last year 43% of readers voted that that NYPD's Sky Watch was useless. Now Animal New York reports on the retractable 20-foot-tall watchtower and now it's popping up in more and more neighborhoods (they name Crown Heights, Harlem and DUMBO as a few). More recently one of the temporary watchtowers has been erected on Graham Avenue and Moore Street, which they pinpoint as "the Bushwickish section of Williamsburg." Allegedly this one is for some robberies......

Hey kids, you can forget all about that square old NYPD that used to bodyslam cyclists and racially profile. New York City’s now got a hip and stylish police department, with a commissioner who doesn’t need a warrant to kill roaches and a brand new text messaging tips system. OMFG LMFAO @ u 4 calling 911. Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne tells the Sun that the text-messaging initiative is part of the NYPD’s attempt to tap......

Twelve city council members are calling on Manhattan District Attorney Robert M Morgenthau to drop the charges against Christopher Long, the cyclist who was seen being bodyslammed to the curb by a rookie cop in a videotape of a Critical Mass ride on July 25th. The council members – who include Rosie Mendez, Letitia James, and Alan Gerson but not mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn – are also demanding that Morgenthau open a wider investigation into......

Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, now LAPD Chief of Police, offered his blunt assessment that a paparazzi taskforce was a "waste of time" since, for one, favorite paparazzi target Lindsay Lohan "has gone gay." While LA City Council members were disturbed by Bratton's remarks--and outing of the Mean Girls starlet--Bratton refined his remarks, saying Lindsay's relationship with Samantha Ronson apparently "quieted her down...nobody is more of a supporter of gay rights than I am." Naturally,......

William Bratton, the former NYPD Commissioner who introduced CompStat and helped oversee a dramatic reduction in crime (and then was dismissed when Rudy Giuliani got jealous), is now dealing a different kind of scourge: The paparazzi in Los Angeles. An LA City Council member has proposed restrictions on paparazzi and even convened a regional "paparazzi task force," with testimony from celebrities. Bratton, who has headed the LAPD since 2002, feels it's a "total waste of......

Today’s police brutality video comes via a security camera that caught an NYPD officer beating a handcuffed Army vet. The Daily News has a description of the July 18th attack, but the video isn’t on line… yet. According to police sources, the officer (not pictured here) paused for 90 seconds during the beating to take a call on his cell phone, and then resumed “smashing the man with his baton.” The recipient of the alleged......

As the NYPD is caught in the controversy of a police officer apparently shoving a Critical Mass bicyclist to the ground for no reason, another disturbing video has surfaced showing a police officer beating a man repeatedly with a baton. WNBC aired the footage which shows Brooklyn resident Michael Cephus being struck on Delancey Street in Manhattan earlier this month. According to police, Cephus was allegedly drinking and had swung at police officers with......

Photo via Gerry Visco, by Elsaa Rensaa. The film Captured documents the documentarian Clayton Patterson (watch the trailer after the jump), and will screen in New York on the 20th anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park police riots, which Patterson famously filmed ("little brother is watching big brother," he's noted in the past). Recently, the artist, writer, community activist, and photographer who for the past 25 years has documented the Lower East Side...from drag......

Early yesterday, Clarence Jones was arrested for allegedly driving off when police officers were attempting to issue a summons for parking in front of a bus stop. However, some Harlem residents and a lawmaker wonder if the NYPD is trying to get back at Jones, because he is one of the people who complained after seeing an unmarked police car with a black doll's head on the antenna. The NYPD, though, said the officers had......

A Queens resident was arrested for kidnapping, raping and robbing a woman leaving Lower East Side club The Box last September. The Post reports that Harvey Contento was arrested last week in Midtown (it's unclear how the police tied him to the attack). It's believed Contento pushed the victim into his SUV, drove her across the bridge to Queens, where he raped her; then, after making her withdraw $500 from an ATM, he abandoned her......

NY1 reports that the NYPD is looking into possible bomb threats, as three people "received post cards warning of bombings in the Financial District" on Friday. And the cards read, "You're invited to a party so put on a happy face...Bombs! Bombs! Bombs! Lower Manhattan, July, August, September," and are signed "New York Jihad." Investigators do not think there is "actual terrorist activity" but are looking into the cards which seem to be printed from......

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly explained why there are more younger muggers these days: It's the iPhone! The News reports, "Juveniles [ages 11-19] accounted for 29% of the 7,340 robbery arrests and 27% of the 4,566 grand larceny busts this year, an 8% jump in each category compared to this time last year." Kelly said, "The explosive popularity of these devices has also made them inviting targets for thefts. Teens are commonly the culprits as well......

The NYPD and Port Authority have finally worked out a plan on who will be in charge of the World Trade Center when it's developed (whenever that is), and it will be the NYPD. Mayor Bloomberg noted how the WTC is a big part of downtown security and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "Considering the history of this site and the ongoing threat of terrorism, it only makes sense that the N.Y.P.D. devote significant resources......

Yesterday, elected officials marched and held a rally over reports of police officers drove an unmarked police car with a black doll's head affixed to the antenna. State Senator Bill Perkins said, "We wanted an apology and we were given an excuse. We wanted an investigation and we got ‘It was a prank.' Without both an investigation and public apology for this demeaning, disgusting and racist action, the distrust between the Harlem community and police......

A great story: On Wednesday, the NYPD had alerted news organizations about two brothers missing in Manhattan since Tuesday. And a NY1 intern Nicole Porette, who had seen the notice, recognized the boys when she was walking by the 14th Street and 8th Avenue A/C/E station! The boys, 13-year-old Michael Louis and 8-year-old Jeffrey Louis, happened to be talking to transit police at the time, but the boys never mentioned they were missing. Porette said,......

A lawyer representing the family of the former NYPD sergeant Jason Aiello, who was fatally shot by police outside his Staten Island home, told the Daily News, "If Jason was black, there would be a thousand people protesting outside 1 Police Plaza. The mayor would be on television apologizing. But this isn't an Al Sharpton case." Police, responding after 911 calls about Aiello, say he was armed with two guns and fired at them, so......

Law enforcement sources think Jason Aiello, a former NYPD sergeant, wanted to commit "suicide by cop" yesterday. After escaping the psychiatric facility at a local hospital early Tuesday morning, Aiello was fatally shot after refusing to put down his weapons outside his Staten Island home. Aiello had been working as a bodyguard for his friend, jeweler Louis Antonelli; in April, Antonelli was killed what the FBI suspects might have been a mob-related hit (Antonelli is......

Scary: Two Bronx residents were subjected to police raids (in one case, a 69-year-old cancer survivor was thrown to the floor and handcuffed, in the other, the cops threatened to arrest a single mother's father), but it turned out they were innocent and had nothing to do with the "sale of crack cocaine," which is what the cops had warrants for. WABC 7's Eyewitness News questioned the NYPD, which in turn ended up arresting the......

The NYPD is asking New Yorkers to turn in their illegal guns and they'll get $200 debit cards in return. In fact, the limit is three, so turning in a trio of illegal guns could net one $600. The AP reports that "BB guns and air pistols are worth $20." The NYPD says the exchanges are anonymous and that it has $300,000 for the program, so that's up to 1,500 guns.......

An off-duty detective who ended up wounding a man who fired upon him was initially sidelined from the force, for having a blood alcohol level of 0.09, slightly higher than the legal limit for driving. But now Police Commissioner Kelly has praised him as a near hero. The Post reported that the detective, Ivan Davison had been "placed on modified duty and stripped of his weapon," after the shooting incident. Davison tried to stop a......

According to the NY Post, an off-duty police detective who used his gun to stop a group of men--at least one of whom was armed--from beating another person was found to have a blood alcohol level over the legal limit. Ever since the Sean Bell shooting, the NYPD has adopted new guidelines that require police officers to take Breathalyzer tests after using their firearms and hit someone. In this incident which took place in Queens,......

Photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge waterfall by John Del Signore; you can see the safety line Yesterday, we noted that two kayakers were rescued from the temporary Brooklyn Bridge waterfalls yesterday afternoon, and now there are some more details: The novice kayakers, in a two-man kayak, had been in a group of kayakers paddling from Governors Island to DUMBO and wanted a closer look at the falls. Their group's leader, Erik Baard, described Bert......

Two members of the NYPD's Organized Crime Control Bureau were relieved of their badges after videotape of a raid on a downtown club made its way to the Internal Affairs Bureau. According to the Post, in one segment, a veteran sergeant is seen bending down over an open cash register (some money was reportedly stolen). His supervisor was taped urinating in the establishment's kitchen sink. One of their OCCB co-workers, a detective, was suspended earlier......

For some unknown reason, many Europeans are smitten with the NYPD. There are more than a few replica NYPD cars over the pond (ranging from quite accurate to comically inaccurate) some available for rental. So it is no surprise to find on flickr a Belgian named Marc who makes incredibly accurate HO scale models of NYPD and FDNY vehicles and photographs them on a miniature version of New York City streets complete with a precinct......