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Along with Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said that major school crimes last year hit their lowest point since 1998 and have tumbled 18 percent since 2015.

The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau has proven it isn't equipped to investigate systemic issues, such as abuses of stop - and - frisk or allegations of quotas or crime stat manipulation, City Councilman Brad Lander said.

Det. Anthony J. Venditti was fatally wounded on Jan. 21, 1986 during a shootout, while he was investigating members of the Genovese crime family, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said during a dedication ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park.

«In the event a crime is committed, the NYPD requests the specific information, they'll certainly cooperate,» de Blasio said of the group, collectively known as CityBridge.

NYPD News tweeted a Twitpic of the suspect and said, «If you have any information contact Crime Stoppers.

November ended with another record low in most serious city crime but a rise in reported rapes, NYPD officials said Monday, attributing the spike to widespread coverage of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct against celebrities.

The NYPD said in a statement that «crime in city parks is less than 1 % of all reported crime in New York City,» while «City parks represent 14 % of New York City land mass, which makes them one of the safest places in the city and the country.»

«The hard work of the men and woman of the NYPD is self - evident, but it is also supported by sustained reduction in crime,» O'Neill said.

Cracking down on public urination, disorderly conduct and other low - level offenses doesn't lead to a decline in more serious crimes, a watchdog agency tasked with monitoring the NYPD said.

November ended with another record low in serious city crime but a rise in reported rapes, NYPD officials said, attributing the spike to widespread coverage of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct against celebrities.

Despite a spate of random slashings and stabbings that have people under stably scared, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the city is on pace for «our best years ever on shootings and homicides» and predicted that overall crime would be down once again at the end of the year.

«She's stood tall with law enforcement, especially the NYPD and she instinctively realizes that the root cause of crime is criminals,» the chairmen said in a joint statement.

NYC Council members are expected to introduce legislation today that would significantly change how the NYPD uses the decades - old nuisance abatement law against homes and businesses cops say have been used as dens of crime.

The NYPD's deputy commissioner for operations said there has been «no change whatsoever» in the way crimes are reported since former commissioner Ray Kelly left the department two years ago.

Reacting to the police shooting death of an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project on Thursday night, City Councilman Jumaane Williams said a new strategy announced by NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton that would remove rookie cops from crime - ridden patrols has not been implemented.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday compared the NYPD's past use of «stop and frisk» to needless cancer treatment, saying the controversial crime - fighting tactic was overused.

NYPD brass have been demanding more arrests and summonses during the past few crime - statistics meetings, known as CompStat, sources said.

NYPD officials on Thursday dampened expectations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein — accused of rape and sexual harassment — could face criminal charges, saying detectives have so far found no prior related complaints within city jurisdiction, either in police records or from calls to the department's Crime Stopper hotline.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is investigating a half - dozen cars found with racist graffiti, they said.

Lichtenstein — a member of Shomrim, the Orthodox Jewish crime - prevention group in Borough Park — approached an NYPD officer in April and offered thousands of dollars in cash bribes to secure gun licenses for associates, federal prosecutors said.

At a news conference Tuesday at NYPD headquarters in Manhattan to discuss crime statistics, Commissioner James O'Neill said the NYPD would be reaching out to the women named in The New Yorker article to investigate.

NYPD officials dampened expectations that Weinstein — accused of rape and sexual harassment — could face criminal charges, saying detectives have so far found no prior related complaints within city jurisdiction, either in police records or from calls to the department's Crime Stopper hotline.

«While the NYPD has the finest Hate Crimes Task Force in the country and has an exemplary training program for officers and supervisors, this is not the case in many departments outside of New York City,» Miller said.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill, in his first full day on the job following the departure of long - time Commissioner Bill Bratton, said the exact cause of the explosion has not been determined, but that the area around the site is being treated as a crime scene.

Precincts in predominantly black and Latino areas such as East Harlem, Washington Heights, the South Bronx and Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn recorded the highest numbers of arrests, Dermot Shea, the NYPD's chief of crime control strategies, said Monday at a joint hearing of two Council committees.

The de Blasio administration has maintained New York as a «sanctuary city,» ignoring federal detainer requests to hand over illegal immigrants who committed crimes and are facing deportation, saying the NYPD will not operate as a deportation force.

«The brave officers of the NYPD have done great work in lowering crime to historic levels in New York City,» Cuomo said.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said CompStat 2.0 changes the way crime data is reported.

City lawyers last week asked Judge Shira Scheindlin to hold off on implementing the reforms she ordered to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy, warning that that the restrictions could lead to a huge spike in crime and saying her ruling against stop - and - frisk was «rife with errors of law.»

CIVIC CENTER — The NYPD's «broken windows» strategy of policing is here to stay thanks to a 4.6 percent drop in crime figures over the last year, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday.

Thomas Reppetto, a longtime observer of American policing and the NYPD, says Bratton's successes in the 1990s when crime was out of control «can never be taken away.»

Though the number of NYC shootings is up, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said crime is down overall.

The mayor went on to praise the department and its leader, Commissioner Bill Bratton, during the ceremony to mark the cadets» formal entry into the NYPD, saying Bratton has «literally done more to reduce crime than anyone walking the planet today.»

To address the disparity in violent crimes, particularly murder, among young people, Kelly said he has promoted Lt. Kevin O'Connor, formerly head of Manhattan North's gang intelligence unit, to be the assistant commissioner for the newly - created Juvenile Justice Division of the NYPD.

«Now the NYPD is perfecting the strategy of precision policing and, in combination with neighborhood policing, crimes are being stopped before they happen,» de Blasio said.

BROOKLYN, NY — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent a letter to President - Elect Donald Trump last week requesting the incoming head of state to meet with Aml El Sokary, a Muslim cop who says she was the victim of a hate crime in Brooklyn on Dec. 3, as well as other members of the NYPD's Muslim Officers Society.

NYPD officials said Monday they tracked down the motorcycle - riding man they identified a day earlier as a possible Queens serial arson suspect — and cleared him of any crime after...

Catsimitidis said the NYPD needs to hire more officers «to make sure that crime never increases.»

The NYPD has said that its surveillance is legal and that stop and frisk — a technique of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who are seen as acting suspiciously but who don't necessarily meet the probable - cause standard for arrest — has helped drive crime down to record lows and save lives by taking weapons off the street.

BAY RIDGE — A Bay Ridge man was charged with a hate crime Sunday after threatening to cut the throat of a Muslim NYPD officer and shouting «ISIS,» police said.

The city has seen a 94 percent rise in the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes reported so far this year, compared to the same period a year ago, the NYPD said.

Speranza said his former position with the NYPD naturally makes crime prevention in the district high on his list of campaign priorities.

He and NYPD Commissioner Kelly say that between the council measures and the court ruling, a police force that has fought crime down to record lows will be tangled up in second - guessing and lawsuits.

But Kelly said Quinn had shown «an in - depth understanding of and support for the NYPD's continued focus on crime suppression and counterterrorism.»

That could include following up on noise complaints, enforcement of security protocols, or taking reports of crime at existing shelters — such as the notorious Bedford - Atlantic Armory, Adams said — to the NYPD.

Today, as he did in arguing against the increase in officers last year, Mr. de Blasio pointed to the city's continually low crime rate: «I say, God bless the men and women of the NYPD for doing a great job.»

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the Daily News «jumped the gun» in demanding a review of claims that the NYPD is cooking the books on crime.

NYPD Commissioner of Operations Dermot Shea, who tallied crime statistics for both Kelly and Bratton, said he was «very surprised» by Kelly's statements.