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Police officer whose attempts in 1982 to expose illegal activities being committed by high-ranking NYPD officers resulted in a highly publicized court trial and his dismissal from the force. Lloyd Sealy: No image available: Police Commander 1917–1985 1942–1969 First African American police commander of the New York City Police Department.
Joseph Petrosino (born Giuseppe Petrosino, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe petroˈziːno;-ˈsiːno]; August 30, 1860 – March 12, 1909) was an Italian-born New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who was a pioneer in the fight against organized crime. Crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered are still practiced by law enforcement agencies.
John Cameron (police officer) Stephen Caracappa; Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito; Daniel C. Carpenter; Sean Carroll (police officer) Jack Caulfield; William Caunitz; Emil A. Ciccotelli; Bill Clark (screenwriter) Kevin P. Clark; Charles H. Cochrane; Edward Conlon; Theron S. Copeland; John Cordes; John Coughlin (police officer)
In 1961, highly decorated NYPD officer Mario Biaggi, later a US Congressman, became the first police officer in New York State to be made a member of the National Police Officers Hall of Fame. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In the mid-1980s, the NYPD began to police street-level drug markets much more intensively, leading to a sharp increase in ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
James Zadroga (February 8, 1971 [1] – January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death ...
The award is the highest law enforcement medal given by the NYPD, which was awarded posthumously to Timoshenko and accepted by his parents in a ceremony held at the NYPD headquarters in New York. [2] [29] New York Governor David Paterson named the two officers Police Officers of the Year in New York State on July 24, 2009.
The NYPD has added more than three dozen new names to its memorial honoring officers who died in the line of duty — with Mayor Eric Adams saying the fallen watered “the tree of freedom” with ...