Riding through the streets and mostly obeying traffic signals, hundreds of street safety and immigrants rights advocates ...

In a dramatic escalation of the NYPD's criminal crackdown on bike riders, a police officer pulled a stun gun while chasing a ...

Jillian Snider, a former NYPD officer and adjunct lecturer at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the incident didn’t strike her as among the more egregious uses of force during the ...

The NYPD has agreed to overhaul the way it responds to protests — including by no longer penning in large groups of activists — as part of a settlement announced Tuesday resolving federal ...

An NYPD inspector has been tapped to become the department’s First Amendment protest supervisor — a newly created position mandated by a federal legal settlement forcing police to overhaul how ...

The NYPD also will create a new senior-level position to oversee that effort and give broader protection to journalists covering protests. The settlement, the civil liberties groups say ...

NEW YORK-- The NYPD announced a landmark agreement Tuesday with the state attorney general's office to reform how the department polices protests. The settlement stems from several lawsuits over ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- An agreement was announced Tuesday between the New York Attorney General, the NYPD and civil liberties advocates to reform how protests are policed. Under the deal, police will ...

The policies included adopting rules around masks, protests and allowing law enforcement to arrest demonstrators. Just over a year ago, hundreds of NYPD in riot gear entered the campus after a ...

Hundreds of NYPD officers entered Columbia property around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, after the university's President Minouche Shafik asked the department to clear out protesters. In a letter to the ...

NYPD officers were seen removing about 76 protesters from the library in handcuffs, placing them in a van and taking them away. It is unclear how many are facing charges. Secretary of State Marco ...