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The Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) was one of the ten bureaus that formed the New York Police Department. The Bureau was charged with the investigation and prevention of organized crime within New York City. The OCCB was disbanded in March 2016 with all investigative entities moved to the Chief of Detectives' office. [2]
The Crime Scene Unit is composed of NYPD detectives (or occasionally police officers that are awaiting their promotion to detective), not civilian technicians like crime scene units in other parts of the United States. Generally these detectives come from an Evidence Collection Team which is operated at the borough level.
The SCU was formed in 1971 as the "City Wide Anti-Crime Unit" and operated for decades tasked with the apprehension of armed felons from the streets of New York City. The unit returned with its original name in 2015 after being disbanded for 13 years, then disbanded again in 2020 along with the rest of the anti-crime teams.
The block association created a 10-point proposal to reduce crime after shots rang out around 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 at West 71st Street and Broadway, injuring two teenagers. More cops are at the ...
The first victim of Monday’s homicidal spree, Angel Lata Landi, was a construction worker originally from Ecuador, his sister Mariana Lada told CNN.
The Velentzas Organization, also known as the Velentzas crime family, or the Greek crew is a Greek-American criminal organization operating in the New York City area. [1] During the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Greek organization controlled a number of illegal gambling operations in and around the New York City area.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with a seventh murder. Heuermann was charged with killing Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old from New Jersey who had ...
“Some of the top criminologists were basically scaring the hell out of people, saying, ‘We’ve got this wave of new barbarians at the door,’” said Barry Krisberg, a criminal justice expert and senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. “It’s true that youth crime rates were rising.