Nine jurors in the Cecily McMillan case have reportedly written to the judge to ask for leniency in her sentencing. In the very short letter, obtained by the Guardian, the jurors write:

Teenagers fighting over high school vendettas end up being responsible for around 40 percent of New York City's shootings, police say.

NYPD officers apparently can't stop getting drunk and shooting people: Just before midnight Tuesday, Officer Brendan Cronin allegedly pulled up to a stop light in Pelham, N.Y. and fired 13 shots at a stranger's car, striking the man six times.

According to a statement released Friday, the NYPD is reviewing a legislative proposal to make New York the first state to prohibit the existence of multiple condoms from being used as evidence in prostitution cases, a practice that advocates say undermines public health goals.

The NYPD's great week of publicity continues: Thursday night, an allegedly drunk on-duty NYPD officer shot his partner in the wrist while the two were drinking at a restaurant in Queens.

Twitter has been around for eight years, and it still hasn't quite sunken in that it's a terrible place to promote your brand. Especially if your brand is police brutality, unnecessary roughness, and racial profiling.

Since just after 9/11 the NYPD has devoted a specific unit of its force to spying only on Muslims in New York and New Jersey. Today, the department announced that it is doing away with the program.

Two men who claim they were arrested after refusing to give cops their White Castle sliders are now suing the NYPD.

Bill de Blasio is NYC's mayor now. Ray Kelly and his racist stop and frisk program are gone. In his place is the new police commissioner, William Bratton. And it seems we may have simply traded stop and frisk for another annoying NYPD tactic.

"You cannot police without" stop and frisk, new NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton tells Here & Now. "If you did not have it, then you'd have anarchy." Yes: If you weren't forcibly stopping and frisking young men of color, the city would descend into chaos. Hmm.

Many videos, from Rodney King onwards, have captured the physical violence of police brutality. Rarer is a video that captures the psychological trauma of someone suffering a complete emotional breakdown in the face of police harassment.

When Deisy Garcia was threatened by her husband, she filed a report with her local police precinct. Then she and her children were murdered–and critics believe they'd still be alive if police had translated her report, which she wrote in Spanish.

Three of the four people arrested in connection with an investigation into the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman were formally charged with drug offenses in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday night.

Late Tuesday night, the NYPD raided an apartment in Manhattan in connection with Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday. Police arrested two suspected heroin dealers and two others who happened to be at the apartment.

The NYPD reportedly found 70 bags of heroin labeled "Ace of Spades" or "Ace of Heart" in the apartment of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was discovered dead of a drug overdose yesterday morning. Police have launched a citywide hunt for Hoffman's drug dealer.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the city will end its appeal of a ruling against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy. If everything goes according to plan, slightly fewer minorities will be harassed by cops in New York City in the near future.

A lawyer tried an experiment with the NYPD: How long would it take him, a white guy in a suit, to get arrested for tagging a government building in plain view of numerous cops? A long time, it turns out. He walked free for days before finally turning himself in. Justice.

A Staten Island mother of ten is suing the NYPD, saying that the cops stormed into her home without a warrant and viciously killed her pet parakeet.

Last night in Brooklyn, two New York City transit cops stationed at a subway station at Lewis and Broadway in Bed-Stuy heard pounding above them. They walked up to the street to find a man with a cane banging on their patrol car. The two cops approached the man, who swung at them, striking one in the face. The other — naturally, because how else would two people subdue a man who requires the use of a cane — shot the man to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, as were the cops. Take a guess which of three will make it out of the hospital last.

It's a day that ends in "y," so naturally people are kicking up a real stink over an Onion video that's clearly not.