NYPD Blue Revival Pilot to Be Reshot, Still in Consideration for Midseason

ABC’s NYPD Blue revival won’t be on the fall schedule — but don’t count it out just yet. The pilot for the Emmy-winning cop drama’s much-anticipated return will be reshot, our sister site Deadline reports, with an eye towards a possible slot in the Alphabet network’s midseason slate. ABC executives are still enthusiastic about the […]

Palantir, the Peter Thiel-backed company that sold data to ICE and NYPD, has a CEO who is a ‘self-described socialist’

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a self-proclaimed socialist, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Palantir has historically worked with intelligence agencies and law enforcement through the sale of big data. It’s even credited with helping the United States find Osama Bin Laden. It was cofounded and backed by Peter Thiel, the […]

Female NYPD sergeant accused of stuffing her panties in other cop’s mouth

An NYPD sergeant is under investigation after allegedly stuffing her panties into a detective’s mouth. Tired of his boss literally airing her dirty laundry on the job, he complained, and got a mouthful of thong for his trouble. Det. Victor Falcon isn’t the only cop to complain about Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra’s public displays of […]

NYPD pulls 2,990 body cameras after one catches fire

The NYPD’s plan to outfit every officer with body cameras has run into trouble. The department has pulled about 2,990 Vievu LE-5 cameras across the city after one officer’s camera caught fire near a Staten Island precinct. There’s a “possible product defect” with the LE-5, the NYPD said in a statement, and it was removing […]

The NYPD has filed formal departmental charges against the officer who fatally choked Eric Garner in 2014

via Twitter The NYPD filed departmental charges against officer Daniel Pantaleo, local media outlets reported Saturday. A case against his supervising NYPD sergeant, Sgt Kizzy Adonis, is still pending. The charges come four years after 43-year-old Garner’s July 2014 death, which sparked protests about police treatment of black people. The New York Police Department reportedly […]

NYPD starts replacing cops’ Windows Phones with iPhones

Microsoft will soon lose 36,000 of its remaining Windows Phone customers, as the NYPD starts distributing iPhones to its officers. The department, which first announced its decision to replace cops’ Windows Phones last year, is now rolling out 600 iPhones a day in Manhattan. Once it’s done upgrading the phones of all the cops in […]

If NYPD cops want to snoop on your phone, they need a warrant, judge rules

Enlarge (credit: Sergi Reboredo/VW PICS/UIG via Getty Images) A New York state judge has concluded that a powerful police surveillance tool known as a cell-site simulator, a device that spoofs legitimate mobile phone towers, is a “search” and therefore requires a warrant under most circumstances. As a New York State Supreme Court judge in Brooklyn […]

NYPD can’t get story straight on evidence system backups

Enlarge (credit: Oliver Morris/Getty Images)) In response to an Ars report on a court hearing in New York on October 17, New York City and New York City Police Department officials attempted to clarify the nature of the issues surrounding a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit legal defense organization Bronx Defenders. In response to reporting […]

Dozens of current and former NYPD officers rallied in support of Colin Kaepernick

Associated Press/Mary Altaffer NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernick a job in the National Football League. The […]