NYPD Archives

Tech Talk: The Value of Communication and Trust

In September 2024, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released data reflecting the longest police response times in decades on record. According to the police union, the NYPD’s response dela...

Terrorism

Light Pierces Through

Joseph Esposito, the New York, New York, Police Department’s (NYPD’s) chief of department, was arriving at work on the morning of September 11, 2001, and about to drive through the entrance gate o...

Youth

An Evaluation of the Waterbury Police Activity League

Many studies show a correlation between school dropout rates and delinquency. Nearly one-third of first-year U.S. high school students and one-half of African American and Hispanic students do not ear...

Terrorism

New York State’s Counterterrorism Zone 4: A Model of Interagency Cooperation to Fight Terrorism

In September 11, 2001, 155 residents of the New York City suburban counties of Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan were killed during the attack on the World Trade Center. Many of the deceased were law enf...

Crime & Violence

Stopping Crime in Real Time

The ability to fight crime in real time — that is the vision of New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Beginning his second term as police commissioner in 2002, Kelly kne...