The top uniformed police officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate.

Up to $60,000 in reward money from the FBI and the New York Police Department's Crime Stoppers program was offered for tips leading to a break in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Police don’t know who he is, where he is, or why he did it.

As the search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer stretches into a fourth day and beyond the New York City limits, investigators are reckoning with a tantalizing dichotomy.

A man who officials say carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan has been charged with three counts of murder.

Officials say a man has carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan that killed three people.

Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times.

A lawyer for a New York City subway rider who was inadvertently shot in the head by police at a station has filed a legal claim against the city, accusing the officers of showing “carelessness and reckless” disregard for bystanders’ lives when they opened fire on a man holding a knife in front of a train.

In late August, shortly before resigning under a cloud of scandal, New York City’s former police commissioner blocked the discipline of three officers involved in a melee outside a Brooklyn juice bar.

Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they fired at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his back to a train.

Dozens of Columbia University students who were arrested for occupying a campus building as part of a pro-Palestinian protest will have their criminal charges dropped.

New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles.

The New York Police Department has been taking a more active role in trying to influence public policy through slick online videos and social media posts.

Authorities say one person was killed and five others wounded following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at a New York City subway station Monday at the start of the evening rush hour.

A man killed four family members, including two children, at their Queens home in New York City and stabbed two police officers who then shot him to death.

Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner whose four-year tenure in the late 1990s included sharp declines in the city’s murder tolls but also some of its most notorious episodes of police killings of Black men, has died.

Body cameras have proliferated in law enforcement agencies in the U.S. over the past decade, amid mounting scrutiny over how officers and agents interact with the communities they serve.

A man has been indicted for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold.

A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold has been indicted.

A Jamaican cleric accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State group has been convicted in New York.

Some audience members leaving a concert by Drake at a Manhattan theater came outside to see a New York Police Department officer filming those filing out.

The New York Police Department says a man accused of attacking police with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve, injuring two officers, has been arrested on charges of attempting to murder officers.

Multiple people have been fatally poisoned with narcotics in New York City in what investigators say are schemes by criminal crews to incapacitate and rob people at bars and nightclubs.

The United States' 988 call service for helping anyone experiencing a mental health emergency is back up and running after a daylong outage.

The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, has been out of service for several hours Thursday.

Police say three children have died after being found on a New York City beach and authorities believe the children may have been drowned by their mother.

John Miller, who has switched between journalism and law enforcement in a lengthy career, has been hired by CNN as its chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.

A retired New York Police Department officer has been sentenced to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.

A suspect has been charged in the fatal shooting of a teen girl who was walking home from school when she was hit by a stray bullet during a street dispute in New York City.

Gun violence was already on the rise during the pandemic, and now it's spiking anew, and cities are struggling with how to manage it.

Officers massed by the thousands on Fifth Avenue for New York City's second police funeral in less than a week.

New York City police officers have given a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partner a week ago.

Officials say a New York City police officer has been killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in Harlem.

Organizers of New York City's Pride events say they are banning police officers and other members of law enforcement from marching in an annual parade until at least 2025.

A video that shows a portion of a recent deadly police shooting in Portland, Oregon, has circulated on social media and evening news broadcasts.

"We found a pattern of deeply concerning and unlawful practices that the NYPD utilized in response to these largely peaceful protests,” James said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit. Andrew Cuomo with investigating whether NYPD officers used excessive force to quell unrest and enforce Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nightly curfew. The lawsuit in federal court named the city, de Blasio, police Commissioner Dermot Shea and Chief of Department Terence Monahan as defendants. “A court process and the added bureaucracy of a federal monitor will not speed up this work,” de Blasio said. James’ lawsuit is the second major legal action to stem from the NYPD’s handling of the protests.

A man wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic in Times Square Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in New York. Small groups of revelers, some wearing glittery hats, filmed their distant view of Times Square on their phones and broke out in cheers at midnight. Preparing for the worst, the New York Police Department deployed its bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. “It’s dead,” said Ali Jameel early Thursday, who owns a store a block from Times Square. “Coming to Times Square is a family tradition for some.

FILE In this June 1, 2020 file photo, New York City Police officers arrest a man during a solidarity rally calling for justice over the death of George Floyd, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It also recommended that the department no longer use for protests a rapid-response unit that deals in terrorism and other emergencies. “The problems went beyond poor judgment or misconduct by some individual officers,” Department of Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett said at a news conference. “Those two weeks in late May and early June were a very painful period in an already deeply challenging year for New York City,” Garnett said. “Our goal was to bring transparency and accountability to the events of that period.”___Follow Michael Sisak on Twitter at twitter.com/mikesisak

Byrne, whose brother was a rookie NYPD officer when he was shot and killed in 1988, died Sunday at a Manhattan hospital after a heart attack Thursday, the police department said. Byrne defended the department in litigation over its spying on Muslims, which was uncovered in reporting by The Associated Press. He interpreted a state secrecy law in a way that shielded the disciplinary records of officers accused of brutality from public view. Bush carried his badge with him while running for the White House, and a major Justice Department grant program is named in his honor. Over the years, Lawrence Byrne and his family have testified before the state parole board, urging it not to release the men who killed his brother.

Police further heightened tensions by attempting to arrest Feliz on outstanding warrants for low-level offenses such as spitting, littering and disorderly conduct, James' office said. Messages seeking comment were left with the police department and with a lawyer for Feliz's family. James' office concluded Rivera was justified in shooting Feliz in part because he feared the vehicle's movement was endangering another officer standing nearby, the report said. If police officers are to remain involved in traffic enforcement, James' office said, the police department should drop a policy that encourages officers to arrest any motorist who is found to have an open warrant. “It is highly unlikely that the incident involving Mr. Feliz ... would have escalated in the manner it did in the absence of this automatic arrest policy," James' office wrote.

New York Mets second baseman Robinson Cano wears a New York Police Department cap while warming up before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Dominic Smith hit his first career grand slam and Wilson Ramos had a three-run double in a 10-run fourth inning. Ramos hit a late solo homer. Michael Conforto hit a three-run homer as the Mets scored four runs in the third. Conforto, who along with Ramos scored four times, hit his ninth homer to give the Mets a 3-1 lead.

Critics of the deal said the billion dollar cut wasn’t a billion dollar cut at all. Council Speaker Corey Johnson said when the budget deal was announced Tuesday that it wasn't what he had hoped for, and lamented he hadn't been unable to negotiate a bigger police budget cut. De Blasio said details were being worked out, but the Education Department would train the agents. Money would go instead to education, social services in communities hit hard by the virus, and summer youth programs for over 100,000 people. Before the virus hit, de Blasio proposed a more than $95 billion spending plan for the budget year that starts Wednesday.

Fox Holler Farms in New Haven said the package was organically grown hemp. NEW YORK - Jahala Dudley and Buddy Koerner said their first summer spent trying to grow and harvest commercial hemp in Vermont was an eye-opener. Under the law, hemp must contain ultra-low levels of the active psychoactive ingredient THC, which gives marijuana users a "high." The Fox Holler Farms shipment was a particularly high-grade strain of hemp, from Oregon seed, and was expensive to produce, Koerner said. For now, she said, the perishable hemp shipment remains in police custody.

(CNN) - New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill is resigning from his post atop the country's largest police force and will take a job in the private sector, he said on Monday. NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea, who has been on the force for 28 years, will replace O'Neill, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. He previously served as NYPD Chief of Department and has worked as a police officer in New York City since 1983, according to his NYPD bio. The New York City Police Benevolent Association, the union representing NYPD officers, slammed the firing and unanimously approved a resolution of no confidence in him. O'Neill moved away from stop-and-friskDuring O'Neill's tenure, the NYPD moved away from the aggressive "stop-and-frisk" policy of former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.

(CNN) - Hundreds of people marched through downtown Brooklyn for hours to protest what they described as continuous brutality by the New York Police Department. The protests came days after a video shared widely on social media showed officers fighting with teens at a subway station in the city, according to CNN affiliate WABC. In addition to protesting the police, the marchers also accused the subway system of over-policing, the affiliate said. Those taking part in the protest highlighted a recent video that shows police breaking up a fight among teens at a metro station. The officer involved in the altercation has been assigned to non-enforcement duty pending the investigation, the affiliate reported.

A New York Police Department officer was placed in a medically induced coma this weekend after he was hit in the head with a metal chair during a confrontation at a nail salon. (CNN) - A New York Police Department officer who was placed in a medically induced coma this weekend after he was hit in the head with a metal chair is now conscious and in stable condition, according to an police spokesperson. Ashun then hit Lafontant on the head with a metal chair, Harrison said. The officer then fired six shots at Ashun and he was killed, Harrison said. The other officer, who has been with the NYPD for seven months, was treated for tinnitus at a local hospital and released.

NYPD Officer Daniel Panaleo is accused in the choking death of Eric Garner. NEW YORK - Former New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo is suing New York City over his termination related to the 2014 death of Eric Garner, Pantaleo's attorney told CNN. The former officer was fired in August after being found guilty in a disciplinary trial of using a chokehold on Garner. As Pantaleo forces Garner's head into the sidewalk, Garner could be heard saying "I can't breathe. Despite the disciplinary trial, Pantaleo has avoided criminal charges in the death.

WABC via CNN(CNN) - An off-duty New York Police Department sergeant has died by suicide, becoming the 10th NYPD member to do so this year, an NYPD representative said Wednesday. The sergeant, found in his residence, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the representative said. Of the 10 NYPD officer suicides in 2019, eight have happened since June. The cluster rattled the department, with leaders trying to come up with a way to tell the rank and file that it's OK to ask for help. Over the past five years, the NYPD has averaged between four and five suicides a year, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said in June at a news conference called after the department surpassed its average.

CNN video(CNN) - The woman who jumped into a lion's den at the Bronx Zoo has been identified, and police want your help in tracking her down. In the video, the lion appears too stunned to pounce and the woman seems unbothered even as it takes a few steps toward her. In addition to the lion's enclosure, Autry also illegally entered the giraffe area at the Bronx Zoo last week, police said. After video of the incident emerged, the Bronx Zoo was not amused, and said the woman put herself in danger. The Bronx Zoo wouldn't say how wide or deep it is.

WABC via CNNNEW YORK (CNN) - Police say the fatal shooting of a New York Police Department officer was the result of friendly fire. Mulkeen's partners fired 10 rounds, two of which struck officer Mulkeen, O'Neill said. Mulkeen had served on the NYPD for over six and a half years and lived in Yorktown Heights with his girlfriend, who is also an NYPD officer. Second friendly-fire death this year for NYPDMulkeen is the second NYPD officer to be shot and killed on the street this year. In addition, nine NYPD officers have died by suicide this year, a cluster that has rattled the department.

Andrew Burton/Getty Images(CNN) - A New York Police Department officer was shot dead in the Bronx early Sunday, authorities said. Brian Mulkeen, 33, served for nearly seven years and was killed on the job. "There is no worse a moment in our profession than this. Please keep Brian's family & colleagues in your thoughts," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill tweeted. The killing comes more than a day after a gunman shot dead Texas Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, an observant Sikh who gained national attention years ago when he got permission to wear a turban as part of his Harris County Sheriff's Office uniform.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(CNN) - The New York Police Department is investigating thefts of jewelry valued at over $350,000 from Manhattan's Trump Tower. In one case, the victim told police she had been away from the 5th Avenue skyscraper from June 21 to Sept. 9. Upon returning, she discovered she had $236,000 of jewelry "removed or stolen; it was no longer there," said police Sgt. In the second case, the victim was away from Sept. 4 to Sept. 10 and reported missing jewelry worth $117,000 on Sept. 11. Separately, President Donald Trump stayed at his namesake building on Sunday night ahead of several days of United Nations meetings.

Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesRic Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York City, police said. The New York Police Department received a call around 4 p.m. "for an unconscious male" at a townhouse on East 19th Street, the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information told CNN. Ocasek, whose identity was confirmed by police, was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cars became hugely popular in the late 1970s and 80s with hits including "My Best Friend's Girl" and "Drive." The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

A police car sits in front of One World Trade at ground zero in Manhattan on March 20, 2017 in New York City. Police say Jaysean Sutton, 39, and Pedro Davila, 27, are wanted for questioning in connection with the robbery, and the NYPD is asking for the public's help in locating them. The faces of the men are clearly visible in the video and photos released earlier by NYPD Crime Stoppers. Police have not said how much was stolen but CNN affiliate WCBS reported the men left with duffel bags full of jewelry. CNN's Rob Frehse reported from New York, and Christina Maxouris reported and wrote from Atlanta.

The latest numbers cover hate crimes reported through September 1. And as a whole, anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City are up 63% this year as compared with last year, officials said. So far this year, there have been 152 reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes, while over the same period last year there were 93, according to NYPD statistics. In all, there have been 290 reports of hate crimes this year as compared with 205 last year, statistics show. NYPD officials also say arrests related to hate crimes are up.

NEW YORK (CNN) - Chef Andrea Zamperoni, who was reported missing on Monday, has been found dead, the New York Police Department said Thursday. In a statement, the NYPD said the 33-year-old's body was discovered in a building in Queens and that the cause of death remains under investigation. Zamperoni was head chef at Cipriani Dolci, a renowned Venetian restaurant inside New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Stefania Girombelli, a spokeswoman for Cipriani Dolci, provided a statement confirming Zamperoni's death. "Andrea was a responsible, good-hearted, kind and very hard-working individual who will be deeply missed by all of us," the statement read.

The New York Police Department has released the photo of a man they are trying to locate after a series of suspicious items were placed inside a subway station and on the street Friday morning. Police say he left two electric rice cookers on the upper and lower levels of the Fulton Street subway station at the peak of rush hour. The NYPD is seeking to locate the individual below for questioning in regard to the suspicious items inside the Fulton Street subway station this morning. While it is not clear if this device is connected to the two found in the subway station, they are all the same make, model and year. Inside Edition found the same rice cookers on sale at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Tribeca neighborhood, which is not far from the Fulton Street subway station.

WABC via CNN(CNN) - Another New York Police Department officer has died by suicide -- becoming the eighth to do so this year -- a law enforcement official told CNN. The 35-year-old was a seven-year veteran who temporarily was assigned to a detail surrounding Yankee Stadium. The officer left a note behind, the law enforcement official said. He was off-duty at the time, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Of the eight NYPD officer suicides, six have happened since June.

New York Police Department officials went to his home, where they found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The number of NYPD suicides so far this year stands at seven -- with five of those occurring since June. In 2017, there were at least 103 firefighter suicides and 140 police officer suicides compared with 93 firefighters and 129 police officers who died in the line of duty, the study found. POPPA volunteers deploy to each precinct or command affected by an officer's suicide. Since the suicides this summer, the NYPD has been developing a plan to help troubled officers.

Cleared in a criminal trial, NYPD Officer Daniel Panaleo now faces an internal trial on tactics he used in the death of Eric Garner. A key question in the case remains whether Pantaleo used a chokehold, which is banned by the NYPD, against Garner. The officer denies he used the maneuver and has been on desk duty since Garner's death. "All of New York City understandably seeks closure to this difficult chapter in our City's history," Walzak said in a statement, declining further comment. Federal investigators began examining the circumstances of Garner's death in 2014, after a grand jury in New York declined to indict the Staten Island officer.

Cleared in a criminal trial, NYPD Officer Daniel Panaleo now faces an internal trial on tactics he used in the death of Eric Garner. The crux of the case remains whether Pantaleo used a chokehold, which is banned by the NYPD; the officer denies he used the move. Activists and lawyers for the Civilian Complaint Review Board call the maneuver Pantaleo used on Garner an illegal chokehold. Garner's death brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront in New York, with protesters marching in the streets. Five years later, Garner's death remains a fervent topic locally and on the national stage.

WABC via CNN(CNN) - Multiple people were shot in Brooklyn Saturday night, the New York Police Department said. The shooting took place in Brownsville, a neighborhood in east Brooklyn. At least six people have been injured, a New York Fire Department spokesperson told CNN. We will do everything in our power to keep this community safe and get guns off our streets," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted shortly after midnight. Officials are working to determine the exact number of people shot and their injuries, Navarro said.

WABC via CNN(CNN) - A New York Police Department sergeant died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound Saturday afternoon, a law enforcement source told CNN. More than 100 law enforcement officers in the United States have taken their own lives in 2019, Chief of Department Terence Monahan said in June. But there are several barriers preventing first responders from accessing mental health services, "including shame and stigma," the paper states. "We need to end the silence that surrounds the issue of first responder mental health. "Also, departments should encourage or require first responders to access mental health services annually.

WABC via CNN(CNN) - Twin 1-year-old babies died Friday after they were left in a car for eight hours in New York, police said. The children's 39-year-old father was taken into custody for questioning, the NYPD said. While the twins were in the car, the father was at work at a nearby VA hospital, officials said. Friday's temperatures in the area reached a high of the mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service. The New York City Medical Examiner will determine the twins' cause of death, police said.

(CNN) - New York has always been a major Pride destination, but this year's celebration is expected to draw record crowds. "The LGBTQ community is an essential part of NYC," New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill said at a news conference on Tuesday. Sunday's march caps off a month of events that included a rally commemorating Stonewall 50, Youth Pride and Pride Island, a three-day outdoor music festival. "New York City is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement," Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted last week. Last year's march in New York City featured more than 550 groups and more than 100 floats.

The report released Wednesday noted that "biased policing, whether perceived or actual, is a matter of significant public concern." The police department did not substantiate a single one of the complaints of biased policing it received between October 2014 and January 2019, according to the report. The Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD analyzed 888 complaints, filed between October 2014 and January 2017, and made 23 recommendations to improve how the police department handles civilian complaints of biased policing. The report acknowledges that definitively proving biased policing is difficult based on the standard set in the current department policy. Altering that policy to change the scope of its definition of biased policing was among the report's recommendations to the department.