In July, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a chokehold, and Eric Garner died. This is bad, commissioner Bill Bratton admits, but the answer isn't making chokeholds illegal. It's making cops sit in a classroom for a few days, then letting them back out.

The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating a stop-and-frisk that allegedly turned into a violent pile-on when the suspect dared to ask the officers why they were investigating him.

Three men accused of possessing meth when they actually just had Jolly Ranchers were awarded $33,000 in a settlement with the NYPD, who arrested them last year outside of candy store It'Sugar in Coney Island.

Chaumtoli Huq was waiting outside the Ruby Tuesday's in Times Square for her husband and children to use the restroom when she was arrested by police. Huq claims she was targeted by police for being Muslim and South Asian; when she was arrested, she had just come from a pro-Palestinian rally and was dressed in a traditional Indian tunic and pants.

The NYPD is very, very bad at Twitter, and yet for some reason, lately, it has only been encouraging hapless cops to tweet even more. If all those grizzled old Lennie Briscoe types are going to be trusted to navigate the world of hashtags and favs, they'll need some education.

The deaths of Eric Garner, who was put in a chokehold by an NYPD officer in July, and Ronald Singleton, who died in custody four days prior, have now both been ruled homicides by the New York City Medical Examiner. Garner's death was ruled a homicide in the beginning of August.

A decade or so ago, the NYPD copped to having a so-called "Hip-Hop Police" force that kept tabs on all the rich and famous black men just itching to commit all types of heinous crimes in New York City. That force still reportedly exists, but now it keeps its eye on people like Drake and Chris Brown.

The NYPD Special Victims Unit is investigating a claim that X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually assaulted a man last year in New York, Buzzfeed reported Thursday evening.

As a huge rally unfolds in Staten Island Saturday afternoon in memory of Eric Garner, who died after being put in a chokehold last month by an NYPD cop, the New York Post has something different to say about New York's boys in blue: three cheers for them, hurrah, hurrah. They're doing their jobs just great!

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James unveiled a proposal yesterday that would outfit NYPD officers with body cameras to record their interactions with the public. After the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, James said, cameras "would go a long way toward providing an objective record of what happened either before or after an incident."

Police officers returned to their cars outside an NYPD Athletic League building in Greenwich Village with human excrement smeared on the door handles. Someone (or multiple people!) really wanted to give the police some shit.

A homeless man from the West Village just learned that his dog, taken away by the NYPD earlier this month, was euthanized at an ASPCA animal hospital without his permission. DNAInfo New York, which had been looking into the dog's fate, broke the news to his owner yesterday.

Footage released by the NYC Housing Authority reveals that the NYPD may have tried to cover up their role in the death of a Japanese student, who died last year after he was run over by a police car in Queens.

Every day, a contingent of New Yorkers, moving in shadows, manages to board the subway without paying the fare—hopping turnstiles and slipping through propped-open service doors on their way to school, or work, or home. Who will defend the city from these monsters?

Yesterday, just shy of a month after Eric Garner was choked to death by an NYPD officer on Staten Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio sent a message to New Yorkers, in the event that they come into contact with the cops sometime soon: stop resisting.

An off-duty police officer driving south in the northbound lane of the New York State Thruway this morning struck another vehicle head-on, killing himself and the other driver, NBC reports.

First, a parody Twitter account called @BicycleLobby convinced the Associated Press it was claiming responsibility for the white flags that appeared mysteriously atop the Brooklyn Bridge last month. Then, it convinced the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Chrissie Ortiz was arrested on assault charges yesterday evening, just two days after her husband Ramsey Orta was arrested on an unrelated weapons charge. Orta, who filmed the fatal arrest of Eric Garner, said his arrest was set-up by the cops, and Ortiz echoed that claim in the press.

Two fire department emergency medical technicians claim they had to physically intervene when NYPD officers began beating a mentally ill man who was handcuffed on a stretcher, the New York Daily News reports. The medical workers have since turned the officers in, and the police department's Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating.