Some startling rumors emerged shortly after New York Police Department officers — clad in what looked like every piece of riot gear available to the department — stormed Columbia University to forcibly remove and arrest student protesters occupying a campus building. These weren’t students; these were professional agitators. These skilled …
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Outdoor gatherings in New York City may fall under the watchful eye of police drones this Labor Day weekend. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” assistant …
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One of the most telling moments of Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York, the new HBO docuseries about a serial killer who terrorized gay men in the Nineties, comes when director Anthony Caronna is interviewing a pair of retired police detectives who worked the case. The …
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While on leave and helping his girlfriend’s family escape war-torn Ukraine, Sgt. Jose Dume received a request from his supervisor to help get on-duty cops into VIP at EDM festival Electric Zoo last fall. It launched a weekend of alleged debauchery for the cops, who were allowed to attend while …
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