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Black Employee Subjected to Makeshift Dummy ‘Hanging’ From A Beam
Islip officials are investigating a Halloween prank in which a town employee hung a masked dummy from a roof beam at a Central Islip parks maintenance shop. The effigy upset at least one African-American town employee, who reported it to police but...
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Ticket-Fixing Case Brings Out the Worst in NYPD Officers
Hero detective Steven McDonald showed up at the Bronx criminal courthouse Friday to support 16 cops who were arraigned in the ticket-fixing scandal. And when McDonald, who became a quadriplegic when he was shot by a 15-year-old in 1986, shows up -...
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Ticket Fixing Scandal: Accused NYPD Officers Put Thousands of Criminal Cases...
Thousands of criminal cases could be in trouble in the Bronx - an unprecedented headache for prosecutors due to the ticket-fixing scandal. A Daily News analysis of cases dating back to 2000 found hundreds of cops involved in the probe either...
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Federal Judge Denies City’s Request to Delay Creating A New FDNY...
A federal judge denied the city's request for an extension to create a new Fire Department entrance exam that doesn't discriminate against minority-group candidates. Read...
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NYPD Cops Arrested for Trafficking Firearms, Cigarettes and Gambling Devices
Five New York Police Department officers smuggled firearms and slot machines they thought were stolen and some even used bolt cutters to pilfer hundreds of boxes of cigarettes from tractor-trailers as part of a 12-person theft ring that was under...
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NYPD Auto Crime Unit Promotions Rare for Hispanics
Joseph Rivera alleges that Hispanic employees assigned to the Auto Crime Division of the Police Department City of New York aka NYPD were not afforded opportunities to be promoted past Detective Third Grade, while other similarly situated Caucasian...
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