Police & Fire Archives – Page 20 of 48 – Politics NY

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Councilmember Salamanca challenged far-left Dems to ask his South Bronx district about policing. So we did.

By Robbie Sequeira and ET Rodriguez

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Mayor appoints NYPD training chief as new Probation head, dismisses reports she ran afoul of top cop

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Queens

NYPD spearheads relief effort for earthquake victims that killed and displaced thousands in Turkey and Syria

By Dean Moses

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Dinowitz announces bills to regulate e-batteries after Tremont supermarket fire

By Camille Botello

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NYPD, City Council still at odds over SRG hearing

By Dean Moses

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Business

Battery outage: City Council votes to ban reassembled e-bike batteries linked to serious fire hazards

By Ben Brachfeld

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EXCLUSIVE | To fight battery fires, new City Council bills would enact trade-in program, get fireproof containers to delivery workers

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Activists call to disband the NYPD’s SRG ahead of City Council oversight hearing

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Brooklyn

Potful of trouble: NYC stores skirting marijuana licensing rules, prompting legal confusion and safety concerns

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Queens

Queens councilwoman declares ‘state of emergency’ over fires caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries

By Bill Parry

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Retired NYPD Chief of Transit among top cop Sewell’s two picks to Civilian Complaint Review Board

by Todd Maisel

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Fare evasion arrests skyrocket, more than 90% of those arrested are Black, Brown riders

By Ben Brachfeld

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Adams names first Muslim member of NYPD panel reviewing police probes into ‘political activity’

By Ethan Stark-Miller

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Brooklyn

Mayor laments latest train surfing death, looks to tackle deadly trend

By Dean Moses

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Queens

Queens DA, NYPD take down 23 of borough’s most violent gang members

By Dean Moses

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Brooklyn

‘Asking for peace’: Brooklyn community calls for end to gun violence after back-to-back fatal shootings

By Lloyd Mitchell

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Brooklyn

Remembering Adeed Fayaz: Thousands in Brooklyn mourn the loss of officer slain in ‘violent robbery of a father from his family’

By Dean Moses

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Advocates, pols rally at City Hall for the passage of bills requiring more police transparency during stops

By Emily Davenport and Paul Frangipane

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CCRB report says 146 NYPD officers recommended for discipline after 2020 Floyd protests — but none fired

By Ben Brachfeld

Rikers Island sees first in-custody death of 2023 as prisoner dies in infirmary

By Robert Pozarycki

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Crime

War on Crime | NYPD reports higher number of felonies, continued decline in shootings in January 2023

By Robert Pozarycki

City clears out migrant encampment outside of the Watson Hotel in Midtown

By Dean Moses

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Locked out: Migrants in Midtown rebel as city moved to transfer them from hotel to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal

By Dean Moses

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Crime

Reverend Al Sharpton condemns cops who killed Tyre Nichols

By Dean Moses

More from Around New York

Michael Blake and Jose Vega will participate in the OneNYC debate.

NY-15 challengers to face off in OneNYC Action debate, Rep. Ritchie Torres opts out

Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026.

Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

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Report: Ride share services continue to fail disabled riders in NYC despite record profits

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Brooklyn Cyclones 25th anniversary season kicks off with excited fans at Maimonides Park