
Tuesday 900-plus schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District shut down after an email was sent to several school board members threatening a terrorist attack. The letter was later deemed a hoax. The decision to close the schools was
by Adelle Nazarian17 Dec 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) received notice of a terror bomb threat, which is now being deemed a hoax, on Monday night. Yet it took until 7:09 a.m. the next morning for the district to begin notifying parents that the school would be closed on Tuesday.
by Adelle Nazarian16 Dec 2015, 11:11 AM PST0

New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has admitted that street panhandlers and homelessness have “exploded” under Mayor Bill de Blasio, and it was a “mistake” to not acknowledge the problem.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Nov 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that he doesn’t believe the White House’s assertion that ISIS lacks the capability to attack the US and works “every day, based on the premise that they have that capability” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s
by Ian Hanchett16 Nov 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

On Sunday, New York City’s AM 970 host John Catsimatidis had New York City Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton on his “The Cats Roundtable” program and discussed the danger of reducing mass incarceration a month after President Obama announced the early
by Trent Baker2 Nov 2015, 3:20 AM PST0

The NYPD alleges that, early Monday morning, an 18-year-old man sneaked into the bedroom of an 82-year-old Brooklyn woman, then waited for her to arrive before he demanded money, raped, and sodomized her.
by William Bigelow15 Jul 2015, 7:03 PM PST0

Low-level criminals in New York City won’t need to pay bail any more with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new “supervised release” program unveiled this week.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Jul 2015, 6:17 PM PST0

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons bashed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a radio interview on Thursday, calling him a “b**ch” for not doing enough to enact meaningful police reform in the city.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Jun 2015, 5:58 PM PST0

On June 18, a 58-year-old man allegedly attacked an elderly woman and an NYPD officer with an 11-inch hunting knife and was shot and killed by the officer.
by AWR Hawkins18 Jun 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

A high-ranking New York Police Department official tells the New York Post that an expensive training program introduced by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the Eric Garner controversy has been “a big disappointment on the backs of the city because they’re paying for this course” to the tune of $35 million dollars for what many believe is a “waste of time.”
by Dan Riehl22 Feb 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

NYPD officials’ celebration of their city going twelve days without a murder had their celebration cut short on Friday, when Eric Roman, 28, was shot in the head, leg, and hand in Queens, dying on Saturday in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
by William Bigelow15 Feb 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

This week, the New York Police Department debuted the first of its new fleet of nine 8-foot-long smart cars, bought to begin replacing its aging fleet of parking enforcement scooters.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Feb 2015, 9:08 PM PST0

While suggesting that police were unfairly targeted as a problem in the broader discussion of race in America, “New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton confirmed there had been a work slowdown by officers in the weeks since two police officers were shot dead” but also defended his department.
by Dan Riehl9 Jan 2015, 8:03 PM PST0

NYPD and other law enforcement officers, both active and retired, who attended NYPD Detective’s Wenjian Liu’s funeral on Sunday in Brooklyn turned their backs when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his remarks.
by Kerry Picket4 Jan 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has told members of the NYPD not to turn their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio again at the funeral for Wenjian Liu on Sunday.
by Kerry Picket2 Jan 2015, 8:18 PM PST0

One would think a seasoned operator like New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton would know better than to risk carrying water for New York’s uber-liberal Mayor Bill de Blasio for New York Magazine. But that appears to be just what he did here recently, and some of his words will very likely come back to haunt him.
by Dan Riehl24 Dec 2014, 6:41 PM PST0

From his vacation get away in Hawaii, President Obama made a phone call to New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to offer his “full support” after the weekend shooting of two New York City officers. The President then went off to play golf, failing to make a similar call to embattled New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Dec 2014, 9:45 PM PST0