This morning, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced that Bill Bratton will be the next commissioner of the New York Police Department. Bratton, who will replace Ray Kelly, served as NYPD commissioner from 1994 to 1996 under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

A Brooklyn man was arrested after police mistook his breath mints for Ecstasy.

Per a recommendation from the NYPD's Intelligence Division, departing New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will receive a 10-officer, 24-hour security detail when he retires early next year, costing New York City tax payers an estimated $1.5 million per year. The 10-cop team is actually an four-person increase from Kelly's initial request, which he made last month.

In the final, desperate days of his seemingly unending mayoralty, New York City's Michael Bloomberg has been handed yet another stinging defeat.

Playboy asks NYPD boss Ray Kelly about political critics of his stop-and-frisk policy: "Do you think they were just full of shit?" "Absolutely," Kelly says. Then he talks about how black teens in Harlem love him.

Kalief Browder was just 16-year-old when police officers suddenly showed up and arrested him for a crime he didn't commit. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island.

New York City Police officers fired more rounds, shot more people, and were shot themselves more in 2012 than in the previous year. Mayor Bloomberg can proudly go out on a violent note.

An off-duty NYPD officer was nearly beaten to death early Sunday morning in Queens as onlookers cheered “Worldstar!” and recorded the incident on cellphone cameras.

Outgoing NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is requesting a taxpayer-funded, $720,000-per-year security detail for him and his family when he leaves office, reports DNAinfo. Only one other commissioner has asked for taxpayer-supported security upon stepping down, but Kelly seems to have accumulated more enemies than most.

Late last month, the NYPD was embarrassed when cops allegedly threw a man in jail for a day after mistaking his Jolly Ranchers for meth. But not every innocent interaction with the NYPD has to end in a cell. According to a new lawsuit, sometimes New York City cops are willing to let people who have committed no crimes go in exchange for an impromptu rap performance.

Minutes after he arrested someone on a robbery charge, an NYPD sergeant reportedly shot himself to death outside his Brooklyn police station last night.

New York City's stop-and-frisk case hit another snag today when a federal appeals court blocked a previous ruling that the policy be changed. The previous judge was also taken from the case.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was booed out of lecturing at Brown University this afternoon when students showed up to protest the NYPD's stop-and-frisk and Muslim-surveillance programs. On his way out, Kelly reportedly strip searched the school, it being Brown and all. Badum bum.

Gee, where is today's daily new Banksy artwork, somewhere in New York City? He's been unveiling a new one every day in October. Not today, though.

The New York Daily News is reporting this morning that a local teen is suing the NYPD and Barneys after he was handcuffed and detained for buying an expensive belt that police officers couldn't believe a "young, black male" like him could afford.

A Brooklyn man was arrested and detained for 24 hours by NYPD officers after they allegedly mistook the Jolly Rancher candies in his pocket for rocks of methamphetamine.

The Street Vendor Project says its members are regularly harassed by NYPD officers, but those exchanges are rarely caught on camera, and fear of retaliation keeps those few that are from being brought to the public's attention.

When 20-year-old New York photographer Shay Horse dropped by his first Occupy Wall Street march on May 23rd, 2012, a friendly fellow protester approached him and started making small talk. "He just asked me what my name was, what my involvement was, pretty general stuff," Horse says. From then on, Horse ran into the protestor, whom he knew only knew as "Al," at practically every Occupy Wall Street event. He even invited him to his birthday party. But it turns out "Al" was actually an undercover cop, 32 year-old NYPD detective Wojciech Braszczok.

A burlesque dancer from Brooklyn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the NYPD for arresting her last summer as she sunbathed topless in a park.

In a speech this morning at the Association for a Better New York, Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota outlined a bold plan to prevent what he perceives as a (very) recent rise in crime.