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Queens North Task Force (QNTF) Staten Island Task Force (SITF) Following the Crown Heights riots in 1991, the NYPD recognized a substandard response to the disorder, and created the Disorder Control Unit the following year. The DCU's creation intended to standardize the NYPD's crowd control methods, as well as providing tactical, logistical ...
The reason for this was the NYPD launching a major reshuffle of its investigative forces, consolidating several of them in an effort to tackle the city's biggest crime problem — violence by gangs and youth crews. The Organized Crime Control Bureau was headed by Bureau Chief Thomas P. Purtell when it was disbanded. [3]
The NYPD Transit Bureau is a part of the NYPD that patrols and responds to emergencies within the New York City transit system. Its responsibility includes the New York City Subway network in Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. However, there are certain units that have citywide responsibilities such as the Homeless Outreach Unit and ...
A high-profile report on the NYPD’s handling of summer anti-police brutality protests is full of glaring holes, City Council leaders said Wednesday, calling on the Department of Investigation to ...
NYPD Police officer in uniform at the US Women's Soccer Team ticker-tape parade in 2019. The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23, 1845, the NYPD is the largest, and one of the oldest, municipal police ...
A coalition of activists is demanding that the City’s Department of Investigation stand by its promise to release a report on the NYPD’s controversial gang database by the end of the year ...
NEW YORK — The NYPD gang database violates the civil rights of Black and Hispanic young people much like the department’s much-maligned “Stop and Frisk” policy, a new report released ...
CompStat is a management system created in April 1994 by Bill Bratton and Jack Maple, whom Bratton met while he was chief of the New York City Transit Police and later hired as the New York Police Department's top anti-crime specialist when he became Police Commissioner in 1993. [1]