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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) is threatening to sue President Trump's administration in response to an executive order signed Wednesday to strip federal grants from "sanctuary" cities, Politico reported. "President Trump issued an executive order today and it's purported purpose was to enhance public safety, but here in New York City and in cities across this nation this executive order could in fact undermine public safety,” de Blasio said during a press conference at City Hall. De Blasio said the "potential funding cuts suggested in the executive order would first and foremost fall on the NYPD." There...

Lin-Manuel Miranda's vowing to return to 'Hamilton' in honor of President Obama commuting the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera -- who was convicted for conspiracy against the U.S. government -- and some cops are outraged. Miranda said he'd be honored to play Alexander Hamilton if Rivera goes to see the play in Chicago after his release in May. Rivera has been serving a 55 year sentence since 1981 for involvement in the FALN -- a Puerto Rican liberation organization that conducted fatal bombings in NYC and an attack on NYPD headquarters. The argument for Rivera's release has been that he...

MANHASSET, LONG ISLAND — Steven McDonald, who became one of the NYPD's most widely recognized heroes when he returned to duty after barely surviving a 1986 shooting in Central Park, died Tuesday at the age of 59, according to city officials. “No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said Tuesday. “Like so many cops, Steven joined the NYPD to make a difference in people’s lives. And he accomplished that every day. He is a model for each of us as we go about our...

Det. Steven McDonald, the NYPD officer who was paralyzed in 1986 after being shot in Central Park, apparently suffered a heart attack Friday, police officials said.

The New York Police Department is now allowing officers to wear beards and grow turbans in a bid to accommodate Sikh recruits. Sikh officers will be allowed to wear turbans in place of the traditional police cap and grow beards up to a half-inch long, which are required for religious reasons. Police Commissioner James O'Neill announced the new rules that affect all religious members on Wednesday following a graduation ceremony for new police recruits.

The New York Police Department said it has seen a dramatic rise in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump, with the majority of incidents directed at Jews. There has been a 115 percent increase in bias crimes in New York City following Election Day, with Jews being targeted in 24 of the 43 incidents during that nearly monthlong period. The anti-Semitic incidents represented a threefold increase from November 2015, The New York Observer reported. In total, hate crimes have increased 35 percent from 2015, the NYPD's chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said Monday morning. "We had a huge...

(CNN) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's "sick to my stomach" over an incident in which a Muslim off-duty NYPD officer was reportedly threatened over the weekend by a man who said, "I will cut your throat, go back to your country." The officer, Aml Elsokary, said she had just dropped off her 16-year-old son in Brooklyn Saturday evening when a man begin arguing with the teen. When Elsokary, who was not in uniform, intervened, the man allegedly told her, "ISIS [expletive], I will cut your throat, go back to your country," before fleeing the scene. Elsokary,...

A man who authorities said shouted “go back to your country” at a Muslim woman wearing a religious head covering may have picked the wrong target: a decorated New York City police officer. Officer Aml Elsokary, a New York City native who joined the force after the Sept. 11 attacks, said she was off duty in her Brooklyn neighborhood Saturday when she encountered a man yelling and pushing her 16-year-old son. When she intervened, she said, the man referenced the Islamic State group and threatened to slit her throat. …

New York Police Department's Precinct 60 has pulled off a massive mannequin challenge with a holiday flare. The nearly three-minute video opts out of the traditional Rae Sremmurd's 'Black Beatles', which is typically used in the challenge. Instead, it plays the cheery song 'Easy Street' from the Walking Dead as the camera breezes through the precinct, revealing all kinds of mischief and holiday fun the officers are getting into. From new recruits to plain-clothed officers and high-ranking cops, it appears everyone took time out to participate in the video, which has been viewed more than 27,000 times.

My spider sense is tingling on this. I have not seen any reports about this in the media, yet. I called the coffee shop, they hung up on me. I called the 13th precinct, and the officer there (nice guy) just told me to check the blotter in the papers. I didn't push him like I should have. She claims A Trump Supporter started yelling about "Hamilton, and racist foreigners", which caused the woman to throw water at him. He then blocked exit to the shop for an hour, then later got arrested pepper spraying some other minority. I frankly...

Several communities across the country have enacted breed bans on pit bulls, but now a police department in New York is taking a closer look at the breed. In fact, the Poughkeepsie Police Department is hoping that one pit bull will change a negative stigma on the breed. “Unlike what I had heard in the past about the dogs, she is social. She’s smart. She’s agile and she was fairly easy to train,” said Deputy George Carlson, a K9 trainer for Ulster County Sheriff’s Department. According to CBS 2, Kiah was found at a Texas animal shelter after her owner...

What next for Hillary investigation? Jerome R. Corsi On 11/16/2016 NEW YORK – Since FBI Director James Comey closed the reopened criminal investigation in Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information two days before the election, the question remains whether or not an investigation would be resumed under the incoming Trump administration. WND has now confirmed with the New York Police Department that in the days leading up to the presidential election on Nov. 8, the FBI terminated the NYPD investigation of Clinton’s emails on former congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop, demanding that the laptop and all 650,000 State Department emails be...

Is the FBI about to break the biggest Scandal In Governmental History? Are Hillary and Bill Clinton squarely in the middle of it? Does Hillary have a “thing” for young girls? These are just some of the questions that have come out of the seizure of a computer belonging to Clinton Aide, Huma Abedin and her pervert husband Anthony Weiner by New York City police detectives. Officials at the FBI have confirmed that a copy of the hard drive from that computer has been turned over to them in connection with a reopened investigation into the former Secretary of States...

On Sunday evening, side-by-side images of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother Tony next to police sketches of potential suspects in a 2007 kidnapping of a three-year-old girl took over the internet. The resemblance is striking, and Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter rapidly took up the case. -snip- In 2013, five years after Portuguese police had closed the case, they reopened it and revealed two new police sketches. It was believed that they were supposed to be of the same man, but from two different witnesses. Reddit and others on social media are now asking, what if it...

NEW YORK (AP) — FBI Director James Comey was being honored Monday night by a group whose board includes several people with longtime ties to Donald Trump, including the CEO of the National Enquirer and a convicted felon who goes by the nickname "Joey No Socks." ... The foundation regularly hosts dinners and events honoring law enforcement officials. Past recipients of the lifetime achievement award include Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan.

Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta says members of the FBI who have shared information about the agency's investigation of her private server should "shut up." "I think the men and women of the FBI are doing a tremendous job out here across the country. But the leakers should shut up," Podesta said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Podesta called the leaks "worrisome." Democrats have pointed to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's claims that agents within the FBI are angry that Director James Comey hasn't recommended charges against Clinton. Democrats have criticized Comey for revealing to Congress...

(WNBC) An NYPD sergeant was killed in a shootout with a home invasion suspect in the Bronx, and a second sergeant was wounded, police officials say. The suspect was also killed in the shootout with police, officials said. http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/nypd-sergeant-fatally-shot-in-head-another-wounded/?cat_orig=us

When New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton's resignation was announced Tuesday, it marked another successful stint atop America's largest police department for the veteran cop. But the man is dipping his beak back into the private sector amid swirling corruption probes and fresh policy demands from Black Lives Matter activists in a city with a dense history of racially charged police killings.http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/new-york-city-police-bratton-police-commissioner-black-lives-matter-corruption-nyc

Good evening, I’m still reporting on Huma Abedin Flipped in NYPD Sex Probe – Crooked Hillary May Be Involved Multiple sources have now confirmed that a pedophile probe has been launched by the New York Police Department that may include both Bill and Hillary Clinton, after a laptop shared by former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his former wife, 20-year Hillary Clinton confident Huma Abedin, was found to contain over 650,000 emails, including information potentially damaging to Clinton. According to Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, the first thing the NYPD did after receiving the laptop was to make...

Was Huma Abedin hiding Hillary’s supposedly “missing laptop “in her apartment in order to keep it away from the FBI — not to protect Weiner, but to protect Hillary? Is the laptop that was seized in the FBI sweep of the Abedin/ Weiner apartment as part of the Weiner criminal probe the one that belonged to Hillary? A laptop that’s been missing for 2 years.