On Friday, March 6, 2026, at about 11:48 p.m., police responded to a 911 call reporting an assault at 4802 10 Avenue, within the confines of the 66 Precinct. Police said officers were told a 14-year-old male had been shot in the head. The teen was taken by private means to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased.
A 19-year-old Lamar Simmons was gunned down just after 2 p.m. on the corner of East 183rd Street and Hughes Avenue in Belmont. The intersection is steps from the day care and around the corner from Bronx Little Italy along Arthur and Crescent avenues. Simmons was shot in his chest, and first responders took him to nearby St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition.
"I know you don't got no lives out of here," a user who goes by the name Stitch the Camera Guy says in one Feb. 1 clip, as he taunts two cops at the West 181st Street No. 1 subway station in Washington Heights.
The FDNY says a person is recovering at the hospital after an NYPD truck collided with a car in Coney Island. Emergency personnel responded to Cropsey and Neptune avenues just before 2:45 p.m. Thursday. Citizen app video shows the front of a black sedan smashed while the truck appears undamaged. Fire officials say EMS took the person to NYU Langone Health-Brooklyn. Their condition is currently unknown.
"Commissioner Tisch has concerns with the initial drafting of the bills, and she is working closely with the speaker's office to ensure that the language of the bill maintains the NYPD's flexibility to both protect houses of worship and facilitate First Amendment rights," NYPD spokesperson Delaney Kempner said in a statement to City and State.
When Zohran Mamdani was a New York state assembly member, he sponsored the Stop Fakes Act, which would have prohibited law enforcement from creating fake electronic communication service accounts and collecting users' account information. Digital dragnet surveillance is widespread and dangerous, yet it continues to go unregulated, Mamdani co-wrote in a 2023 City & State op-ed. Although the NYPD claimed in a Department of Justice report to keep detailed records of its undercover accounts, the department refuses to provide any documentation
"Requests coming in through 311 were often assigned through long text chains and phone calls," Tisch said at the annual State of the NYPD address earlier this week. "Supervisors tracked jobs by hand, and officers didn't always have a clear picture of what was assigned, what was still open, or who was responsible for follow-up. ... That might work when volume is low. It doesn't work in a city of eight million people."
The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday. Photo by Dean Moses The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday.
NYPD When New Yorkers sign up to become police officers, one of the most common reasons for taking the oath is a desire to help people and save lives. NYPD Officer Freddy Cerpa can say he has achieved that goal twice over, all in a matter of weeks. Cerpa is not being hailed as a hero because he had to draw his service weapon and fight off danger, but instead because of the way he remained calm during a life-or-death situation and saved the lives of two babies.
An MTA bus driver walking to work was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Friday afternoon, according to cops and law enforcement sources. The 42-year-old man was clipped in the left shoulder when gunfire rang out near Marcus Garvey Blvd and Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 2 p.m., police said. The shooting took place in Brooklyn. Google Maps When officers reached the scene, the MTA worker was alert and conscious.
A trio of plainclothes cops who showed up at a Brooklyn hospital seeking care felt disrespected by staff there, leading to NYPD leadership registering their unhappiness over how they were treated, the Daily News has learned. The narcotics detectives came to NYU Langone Health-Cobble Hill in Brooklyn to be checked out after a suspect they apprehended spat blood on them, police sources said. Exactly what transpired between the cops and hospital staff remains unclear.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday said officers responded to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital shortly before 5:30 p.m. after they received multiple reports about a violent man who was armed with a sharp weapon inside the hospital. The man, later identified as Lynch, was a patient at the hospital. He was admitted on Wednesday, police said. NYPD Assistant Chief Charlie Minch said callers told dispatchers that the man
According to investigators, the robberies happened over several weeks in December and followed a similar pattern. In one of the earliest cases, police say a man walking out of an Apple store on Flatbush Avenue on Dec. 5 had an iPad taken directly from his hand. No injuries were reported. Later in the month, on Dec. 22, police say a woman walking along State Street in Downtown Brooklyn had a bag containing an iPad taken from her. No serious injuries were reported.
