The police department’s budget has ballooned from about $3 billion in 2000 to nearly $5.7 billion in the current fiscal year. Some of that increase has come from taking over policing functions from other agencies. In the mid-1990s, the department absorbed the city’s then-separate housing ...
TheNYPDbanned chokeholds in the 1990s. Pantaleo, 33, has been on desk duty since Garner's death in 2014. The judge will have 10 days to review the evidence before making her recommendation to the police commissioner. The final decision on any punishment lies with the police commissioner. Pen...
in a City of Nearly Eight Million People, ... T he rioting that threw into startling relief the economic disparity and racial tensions in cities during the late 1980s and early 1990s had an almost comical beginning. In 1988 NYPD personnel, trying to enforce a 1:00 a.m. curfew in the....