Tag: NYPD

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Buying Car Shot and Critically Injured

NEW YORK—A manhunt was underway Sunday for a gunman who critically wounded an off-duty New York Police Department officer who arranged on social media to meet at a Brooklyn street address to buy a car, authorities said. When the officer arrived with a relative in the borough’s East New York neighborhood, the gunman announced a…


NYPD Leaders ‘Refusing to Acknowledge’ Mass Exodus of Police, Union Leader Says

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is experiencing a mass exodus of officers, with thousands of “talented and dedicated” recruits leaving the force, according to a top police union leader. New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told Fox News on Thursday that despite the rise in officers leaving the force, city leaders are “refusing to…


Era of Defunding Police is Over: New York Governor Hochul

New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul declared the “defund the police” movement officially dead on Jan. 24 while touting an increase in funding for local law enforcement agencies. Speaking at a press conference at the Capital Region Crime Analysis Center (CRCAC) in Albany, Hochul noted: “We’re not defunding police; we are really ramping up funding…


China Records First Population Drop in Decades

Is China falling toward second place? India seems on track to surpass the world’s most populous nation after China’s number fell for the first time in decades—by 850,000 people to 1.41 billion in 2020. But what makes it such a big deal? China is facing an aging population and dwindling workforce. What’s more, COVID-19 is…


Federal Prosecutors Drop Case Against NYPD Officer Accused of Spying for China

Federal prosecutors in New York dropped their case against an NYPD officer indicted for allegedly spying on behalf of China’s communist regime. Baimadajie Angwang was charged in 2020 with acting as an illegal agent of China’s communist regime. Angwang was an officer with the NYPD’s 111th Precinct in Queens, and a U.S. Army reservist. Born…


Prosecutors Drop Charges Against NYPD Officer Accused of Spying for China

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have dropped their case against a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who had been accused of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese regime. Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old ethnic Tibetan and naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in September 2020 on charges of allegedly acting as an illegal agent of Beijing…


Decades of Evidence May Be Destroyed in Massive Fire at NYPD Warehouse

A massive fire broke out at a New York Police Department warehouse that houses DNA evidence from crime scenes as well as cars, e-bikes, and motor scooters, police and fire officials said. Eight people suffered minor injuries. The fire at the Erie Basin Auto Pound, a low warehouse situated atop a long, curving breakwater on…


NYPD Counterterrorism Force Thwarts Threat to Jewish Community

The New York Police Department (NYPD) stopped a threat to the Jewish community on Saturday in a joint effort with the FBI, the police department said. “The FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, NYPD Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau investigators, working with their law enforcement partners, uncovered a developing threat to the Jewish community on Friday,” NYPD…


NYC Subway Attacker Arrested After Man Fatally Struck by Train During Fight Over Dropped Phone

A New York City man was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of getting into a fight over a cellphone, resulting in a man being fatally struck by an oncoming train at a subway station in Queens, authorities say. The suspect, Carlos Garcia, 50, has been charged with manslaughter in connection to the death of…


New York City in Grip of Organized Street Crime

Crime in New York City has exploded this year. The last time the Big Apple saw more theft rotting its core, Frank Sinatra was still alive. After a surge in shootings over the previous two years, murders have somehow subsided. Instead, nearly all other forms of crime have mushroomed. The city’s police department, the NYPD,…