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The NYPD is reportedly mulling a $12.3 million deal with Tesla for up to 250 electric cars
The police department would pay nearly $52,000 per Model 3, according to the report. It is one of m…
Grace Kay
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The real cost of the police, and why the NYPD's actual price tag is $10 billion a year
The New York Police Department budget swelled to $6 billion in 2020. We break down why the police c…
Abby Narishkin,Kuwilileni Hau…
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'It is our job to listen — and to act': NYC leaders respond to calls for police reform by supporting $1 billion slash to NYPD budget
The City Council "will bear the blame for every new victim, for every New Yorker in need of help wh…
Rhea Mahbubani
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The New York City Council passed a budget to defund the NYPD by $1 billion — but nobody seems to like it
The $1 billion cancels the incoming class of officers, and will be reallocated to services like sum…
Ashley Collman
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New York City Pride says it will ban police through 2025 and 'reduce' NYPD involvement
NYC Pride said it was reevaluating the need for NYPD presence, which can be "threatening, and at ti…
Connor Perrett
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New York officials say a perfect storm of problems has made it an especially deadly summer in the city: 'It's guns. It's the gangs. It's the lack of jobs.'
A recent surge in New York City shootings has continued into July 4 weekend, with 11 killed and mor…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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NYPD to disband 600-strong plainclothes anti-crimes unit in a move toward community-focused '21st century policing'
This decision comes after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis prompted a global cry for the en…
Rhea Mahbubani
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NYC mayor promises 'intense change' with police reform proposals amid calls to defund law enforcement, including shifting resources from NYPD and publicizing officers' disciplinary records
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday the city would shift funding and resources from the New York …
Aylin Woodward
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses New York police union of threatening Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter after her arrest at Saturday's protests
Ocasio-Cortez urged the NYPD to de-escalate with protesters and told the union to "apologize and ow…
Eliza Relman
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The NYPD's deputy commissioner of IT just slammed a critic of the Windows smartphone program
The smartphones have made our cops smarter, faster, and more agile in their response to 911 calls, …
Julie Bort
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Cities around the US have already cut at least $1.19 billion from police budgets since George Floyd was killed
Cities including New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Boston have answered calls to reduce police fu…
Sinéad Baker
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Farewell, Bill de Blasio: Good riddance to the mayor who talked the talk but failed to walk the walk
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to change the city and stand up to the NYPD. He did not…
Ashish Prashar
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Biden promises to support police and crack down on gun violence: 'The answer is not to abandon our streets'
"The answer is not to defund the police," Biden said. "It's to give you the tools, the training, th…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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We checked in on 70 cops who were involved in notorious police killings. Some are doing just great.
This is what happened to 72 police officers after killings that gained national attention and spark…
Jack Newsham,Katherine Long,N…
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Data suggests thousands of cases of New York police breaking department guidelines, but consequences are rare
Disagreements in the New York mayor's race over police funding and bans on specific, controversial …
Tana Ganeva
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NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams says 'young white affluent people' lead the 'defund the police' movement
Brooklyn Borough President and former NYPD officer Eric Adams said he's "never been to an event whe…
Jake Lahut
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Some protesters want to abolish the police, but what does that mean?
Police abolition includes "a radical investment in communities of color, including housing, jobs, a…
Starre Vartan
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Black Lives Matter co-founder explains what 'defund the police' actually means
The demand is a major step that combines rerouting funds from police departments and redistributing…
Ellen Cranley
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Who's running for New York City mayor in the Democratic primary
The advent of ranked choice voting makes June 22nd's primary harder than ever to predict, with Andr…
Jake Lahut,John L. Dorman
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How pro-Trump rioters ransacked the Capitol with so little resistance
The Capitol Police were unprepared and ill-equipped to stop the protesters, and had underestimated …