Two cyclists were struck by vehicles last night in Brooklyn and Manhattan leaving the riders in critical condition. more ›

Pedro Hernandez knows "intimate details" about the disappearance and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, and that information is what makes the NYPD confident in their case against Hernandez. According to the Post, the details could include certain scars or birthmarks on Patz, or what the boy was wearing when he disappeared. "Pretty seasoned detectives are confident this is the guy based on information he had," a source says. "And the circle of people who know is very narrow. They’re not even telling other people in the unit.” But another source tells the Daily News that the FBI isn't convinced: “The bosses are very skeptical. They don’t believe him. He’s got mental problems and there’s no other evidence. They think we moved too fast.” more ›

Toll collectors: not the best students of history! Once again, a young toll collector has been busted allegedly stealing on the job in the exact same way many a toll collector has been caught before: videotape. more ›

With concerns about a pervert who followed then fondled a woman walking on south Park Slope street, the police have released two additional videos of the man suspect in the May 23 attack. more ›

Remember when NJ Governor Chris Christie complained about the NYPD's spying on Muslims in the Garden State, "This is the New York Police Department. I know they think their jurisdiction is the world. Their jurisdiction is New York City. My concern is this kind of obsession that the NYPD seems to have that they’re the masters of the universe." Well, now the NJ Attorney General says that the NYPD didn't do anything wrong! more ›

The man who allegedly told NYPD detectives that he killed a missing Soho child in 1979 has been identified as NJ resident Pedro Hernandez. Inside Edition obtained photographs of him and reports, "At the time Etan [Patz], 6, went missing, Hernandez was 18 and lived near the Patz family in Soho. Hernandez now lives in New Jersey and is married with a college-aged daughter." Tomorrow will be the 33rd anniversary of Etan's disappearance. more ›

Today Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Wall Street Librarians filed a federal lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg, the City, and the NYPD for compensatory and punitive damages totaling $47,000 for the roughly 3,600 books that were confiscated—nearly 2,800 of them destroyed— during the raid of Zuccotti Park on November 17. "This is an important and potentially historic lawsuit," attorney Norman Siegel, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit says. "It not only addresses the seizure and destruction of the books, but it also seeks to show why, how, and who planned the raid on Zuccotti Park." more ›

The NYPD released video of a person suspected of sexually abusing a woman at 16th Street and 4th Avenue yesterday morning. And one neighbor claims the cops let the suspect get away. more ›

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly issued a statement just after 6:30 a.m. this morning, "An individual now in custody has made statements to NYPD detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago. We expect to provide further details later today." According to the Daily News, the suspect, Pedro Hernandez, was picked up yesterday in Camden, NJ. more ›

A man who pushed a police officer to his death off a 9-foot balcony last year was sentenced to 28.5 years to life in prison today. "The fact of the matter is I didn't push your son, all right?" George Villanueva told the parents of decorated Officer Alain Schaberger in court. According to the Daily News, Villanueva added, "Do the math. I'm not going to turn a simple domestic thing with my girlfriend into a murder case. My deepest condolences go out to you guys." more ›

The family of a 15-year-old honor student is suing the city after she was tackled by plainclothes police officers after matching the profile of a shoplifter. Last Friday afternoon, police in the 78th Precinct received a description of shoplifters as "two female black teens, dark hair," one with a ponytail. Brittany Rowley was walking down Prospect Park West with a friend; the two were on the way to the library. Suddenly an unmarked police car appeared. “I thought we were being abducted,” Rowley tells the Daily News. The girls ran, but two officers tackled them. "Why did you fucking run? I should punch you," Rowley says one officer told her. more ›

Because apparently some people just can't help but simulate sex acts on the subway, the NYPD has sent out yet another request for help in finding an alleged subway pervert. And this one, the police say, is a repeat offender. more ›

The police are asking for the public's help in finding two people who allegedly robbed a woman at a F train station in Queens last month. Wait, let's clarify that: They allegedly robbed a blind woman at a F train station. more ›

An NYPD sergeant was captured on video profanely berating a 21-year-old man in a Chinese restaurant in Kensington. "My dick will go in your mouth and come out your ear," Sergeant Lesly Charles says. "I have the long dick. You don't." According to the Post, which obtained the video from the man, it was an illegally parked car that got the well-endowed officer so aroused. more ›

The artist who was installing the "I Love NY" bag that caused a bomb scare in Williamsburg on Friday was arrested early Saturday morning while he was installing an identical work in Greenpoint. 50-year-old Takeshi Miyakawa, who lives in Brooklyn, was arrested at the intersection of Bedford, Lorimer, and Nassau, and charged with planting false bombs. At his arraignment this morning, Miyakawa was ordered to be held for an additional 30 days for a mental health evaluation by Judge Martin Murphy, despite the prosecution's request to fix bail. more ›

Kenneth Moreno, the former NYPD officer who was acquitted of raping a woman in her East Village apartment but was convicted of misconduct, is contemplating filing a civil suit against New York City and HBO. "It's a civil-rights action," attorney Eric Sanders tells the Post. Moreno, who admitted under oath to spooning with and singing a Bon Jovi song to the woman he was accused of raping, and whose attorney compared a woman's vagina to a venus fly trap, feels aggrieved by his ordeal and that the prosecution planted evidence. more ›

On Thursday morning, a woman wearing scrubs rang the bell of a Staten Island home owner. The woman told the resident that she was a home health care worker. Then, NBC New York reports, "When he told the woman he didn't use a home health aide, a man who appeared to be her accomplice pushed his way into the house flashing a gun, police said." So the homeowner ran out and called 911. more ›

New York City's war on graffiti has been going on for decades, and Mayor Bloomberg formed an anti-graffiti squad in 2005, "Graffiti is something for which our administration has zero tolerance...[it's] an invitation to criminal behavior." But now there's a new way to fight graffiti, besides spying on taggers and arresting taggers: It's shutting down the stores where spray paint is sold—talk about going up the chain! more ›

The number of stop and frisks in the city may be soaring to record highs and we're still the marijuana arrest capital of the world, but other police stats are actually dropping at a surprising rate. Specifically, traffic and parking tickets. Today's Post points out that buried inside the city's budget is the fact that the NYPD is on pace to write nearly 269,597 fewer tickets for traffic violations this fiscal year than they did last year (which was already an eight-year low). That means potentially $9 million less in revenue for the city—unless they can make up the difference by ticketing cyclists? more ›

Raymond Gumti, the former police cadet who sold his mom's personal info to a gang of ID thieves got a stern talking to from a judge at his sentencing yesterday. Not to mention a $13,000 bill to pay. more ›

Despite the constant crowing from the NYPD and city officials that the police department's stop-and-frisk policy is a necessary nuisance for New Yorkers (mostly those who are black and brown!), a federal judge today granted class-action status in a lawsuit against the NYPD that claims the practice violates the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics. more ›

An activist protesting the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics was held in contempt of court on Friday, and sentenced to ten days in jail, after she called Judge John H. Wilson a "white racist pig." In 2006 Judge Wilson penned a children's book called Hot House Flowers, which was an allegory for illegal immigration that depicted immigrants as dandelions that should be "weeded out." A man videotaping the exchange was also handcuffed, and had the contents of his camera deleted by court employees. more ›

DEA agents and Internal Affairs investigators swooped in and arrested an NYPD officer on his way to work this morning and charged him with improperly using law enforcement databases to do favors for a notorious heroin dealer. According to wiretap evidence collected by the feds, Officer Devon Daniels, 30, was at the beck and call of heroin dealer Guy Curtis, allegedly scoring him an NYPD parking placard and using a national law enforcement database to run searches for Curtis. more ›

In the first major legal victory for those detained during Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino found photojournalist Alexander Arbuckle not guilty of disorderly conduct after a two day trial. more ›