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Times Square needs more cops — not casinos at expense of NYC taxpayers
It’s a snake-oil gambit that will come up snake eyes for the public.
Eric Adams unveils $99.7B 2023 NYC budget — here's what it means for cops, schools, and the homeless
Mayor Eric Adams rolled out a record-busting $99.7 billion budget proposal on Tuesday fueled in part by an uptick in tax revenues, spending that he argued is essential for the...
Eric Adams says pendulum swung too far 'to the left' on policing
Mayor Eric Adams vowed to reach a "middle ground" on public safety and policing policies -- after he said the pendulum had swung too far "to the left" during former...
This mother is fighting black-on-black violence — and wants police support
Sylvia Bennett-Stone has been hard at work over the past year amplifying the voices of black mothers who have lost their children to gang violence.
Mayor Adams’ subway safety plan doesn’t go far enough to protect NYers
The plan involves considerable overlap and makes no mention of the Office of Community Mental Health established at the end of 2021 by former Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The hysterical woke can’t cope with post-Trump, post-COVID world
Hysteria has kept woke Democrats in business for nearly six years.
'Defund' Councilwoman Cabán targets Adams' new anti-gun unit
Defund-the-police Queens councilwoman Tiffany Caban told her constituents to watch out for the NYPD unit that's set to be revived in her district.
How Dallas Police Department’s smart tactics bucked national crime wave
From 2020 to 2021, homicides in the Lone Star metropolis have dropped from 254 to 220, and violent crime has nosedived by 12 percent since May last year.
Adams says it 'makes no sense' cops aren't required to live in NYC
Adams said that it should be a requirement that one lives in NYC to be a police officer because there is "no such thing as being off duty."
NYPD commissioner blasts Manhattan DA's lenient agenda in letter to NYPD officers
Keechant Sewell sent an email to cops on Friday saying she’s “concerned” for their safety in light of the progressive policies announced this week by the new Manhattan district attorney.
Policing in 2021: Mixed-race cop called ‘racist and a Nazi’
California officer Ray Hamilton reveals what it's like being a mixed-race cop policing our most dangerous streets in 2021.
Liberal media discover that you need cops to stop crime
With murder soaring across America, some in the liberal media have come to a belated conclusion: Cops stop crime. Trendy-left site Vox has run countless anti-police articles in the aftermath...
Clarity on critical race theory: It's a political drive, not an educational one
MSNBC, of all places, just offered a clarifying moment showing what critical race theory is really about. Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute writer who has done excellent work on the...
'Diaphragm law' that handcuffs cops struck down as 'unconstitutionally vague'
Last summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law the restrictive ban on chokeholds. Supreme Court Justice Laurence Love struck down a controversial part of this bill.
Kathryn Garcia breaks with primary foes, NYPD by backing chokehold law
Ahead of the June 22 Democratic primary, Garcia told The Post that she wouldn't make any changes to the law enacted amid a wave of "defund the police" reform last...
Former top cop Bratton slams Derek Chauvin, defund the police movement
Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday slammed cop-turned-killer Derek Chauvin for dealing "unrivaled" damage to the profession through his murder of George Floyd.
Eric Adams says critics of his record on stop-frisk can just 'shut up'
Mayoral candidate Eric Adams defended his record on being against stop-and-frisk in the NYPD.
Police union slams mayoral hopeful as 'de Blasio flunky' over anti-NYPD ad
Ed Mullins said Maya Wiley's anti-police stance explained why a recent poll ranked her fifth of the eight Democratic candidates heading into this month's primary.
How Eric Adams could be a welcome national voice on crime — and policing
The tension between rising crime and the campaign against policing is at the center of American politics today, including in New York City's mayoral race. Other issues are discussed, but...
The future of crimefighting tech is here: drones and RoboDog
The future of nonlethal crimefighting is here — and progressives and civil libertarians are losing their minds.