The NYPD has reduced the number of college credits required to join the force, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Wednesday. Incoming recruits only need 24 college credits, a steep drop ...

A person was shot by NYPD officers who were apparently trying to break up a fight in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, police said, stressing the preliminary nature of the investigation. A report of ...

New York’s Finest’s often spotty responses to 311 calls will be tracked under a new NYPD “quality of life” crackdown, police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tuesday. Many quality of life ...

A new federal lawsuit claims the NYPD License Division’s “excessive, unreasonable, and unjustifiable delays” in handling firearm permit applications are a violation of New Yorkers’ Second ...

The retired NYPD lieutenant who has accused former Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of coercing her into sex filed a complaint with Internal Affairs Monday over two leaked nude videos of her ...

An NYPD officer was struck by an out-of-control car and pinned between two vehicles in a dramatic crash that unfolded in Manhattan Friday morning, authorities said. The 26-year-old uniformed cop ...

In an effort to address a “hiring crisis,” the NYPD is rolling out a three-part plan aimed at recruiting more candidates and modernizing education requirements, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch ...

An NYPD officer executing a search warrant was shot in the shoulder during a standoff with a gun suspect in Manhattan Tuesday, authorities said. The suspect, a 35-year-old "violent repeat offender ...

Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division was pulled from active investigations after appearing in a controversial rap video by S-Quire. The video, seen as degrading to women ...

At the same time it is reducing college credits for incoming recruits to 24, the NYPD also plans to prioritize fitness at the academy and reinstate a 1.5-mile training run requirement. Hundreds of ...

Eyewitness News is exclusively hearing from the woman at the center of a scandal that rocked the NYPD. The woman, an NYPD lieutenant, accused the highest-ranking uniformed member of the force of ...