The Post and Daily News have more information about yesterday morning's stabbing of an off-duty police officer who had been walking in Chelsea with his girlfriend and some other women. Apparently the women were harassed by a group of men, prompted Officer Jonathan Silvetti to say, "Hey, that's my girl. They're with me." When Silvetti said he was a cop and showed them his NYPD shield, one said, "So what? I got one of those,"......

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,......

A day after police officers fatally shot a man who reportedly fired at them, off-duty law enforcement officers used their weapons to fire upon armed men. In Brooklyn, an off-duty correction officer had been wheeling his motorcycle in his garage last night around 11 p.m. when an armed man appeared. Police believe the man wanted to steal the bike and said that the off-duty officer fired at him, hitting him in the cheek. The suspect......

An attempted mugging proved fatal for the attacker late yesterday evening, as a man followed a woman and her three-year-old child into their building shortly before midnight Saturday. The mugger apparently did not know that the pair's husband and father was a NYPD officer who was off-duty at the time. When the man attacked the woman and brandished a gun after they get off the elevator on the 3rd floor, the mother screamed. Her husband......

A gang of five trailed a pair of off-duty cops in Washington Heights around midnight last night and jumped them in an attempted robbery that did not go well. Things went sideways for the assailants almost immediately when one of them initiated the attack by picking up a wooden folding chair from the trash and hitting one of the officers on the back of the head with it. The approach has been known to work......