In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, an off-duty NYPD officer, Jacob Sabbagh, was arrested on child molestation charges.

Last month, an 82-year-old woman died in her kitchen in Brooklyn. Her death certificate said she died of natural causes. Now, the New York Times reports, the officers who found her body may be disciplined after a funeral director noticed a stab wound on her neck they had missed.

The idea that New York City is in the throes of a historically or even notably dangerous and criminal era is a myth fabricated largely by the knuckleheads at the New York Post. More evidence to the contrary: In the years since stop-and-frisk began its great decline, murders and shootings in the city have gone down too, not up, according to new NYCLU analysis.

An unarmed man was shot and killed by a uniformed NYPD officer after an eight-mile car chase through the Bronx and Westchester County ended in the woods around Yonkers, off the Saw Mill River Parkway.

Did you know that in the state of New York, you’re technically allowed to carry up to 25 grams of pot on your person without fear of arrest, and have been for almost 40 years? No? That’s probably because—in New York City, at least—cops will usually lock you up for it anyway.

Any NYPD officer shot a man in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on Wednesday afternoon after telling the alleged Bloods gang member not to reach for a gun he had dropped while fleeing a car crash, DNAinfo reports.

A plainclothes NYPD detective shot an 20-year-old man in the stomach on Sunday after he tried to rob him at gunpoint, CBS News reports. The suspect was shot once in the stomach and is in stable condition. The detective was also hospitalized, with tinnitus.

A U.S. Postal Service worker who unknowingly gave Ismaaiyl Brinsley directions to the Brooklyn housing project where he shot and killed Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu earlier this year claims he has been the target of violent harassment by the NYPD, the New York Daily News reports.

A terrorism crime drama television show loosely based on the career of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is being developed for ABC, Variety reports. Kelly held the position twice, serving for 12 years in his second appointment. He will serve as a producer on the ABC show.

On Saturday, an anti-police brutality rally in Washington Square Park got an unexpected guest speaker in Quentin Tarantino. Today, the perpetually seething chair of the union representing NYPD officers responded by calling for a boycott of the director’s films.

Around 3 am on Sunday, police divers in the Harlem River, near 123rd Street, found a semiautomatic .40-caliber weapon that authorities believe Tyrone Howard used to shoot and kill NYPD Officer Randolph Holder earlier this week, the New York Times reports.

A man accused of masturbating near a woman in a Manhattan subway station Monday night, then pulling a gun on man who tried to catch him on video, has been arrested and identified as a retired NYPD cop.

On Tuesday night in East Harlem, a man named Tyrone Howard allegedly fired a single shot at NYPD officer Randolph Holder, striking him in the head and killing him. Holder’s death is a tragedy, and despite what New York City mayor Bill de Blasio would have you believe, it has nothing whatsoever to do with prison reform.

An East Harlem drug dealer and addict also wanted in connection with the September shooting of an area gang member stands accused of killing a police officer in New York on Tuesday, Police Commissioner William Bratton said Wednesday. Charges against Tyrone Howard, 30, are pending.

Police said that an NYPD officer has died after being shot in the head around 8:30 pm on Tuesday evening in East Harlem, the New York Times reports.

An NYPD officer was indicted this afternoon for allegedly falsifying the deed on a Bed-Stuy townhouse, swiping it from its rightful owner and placing it under her own name.

NYPD officer Michael Ackermann was convicted Thursday on a felony charge of of falsifying a record to justify the 2012 arrest of a New York Times photographer in the Bronx, the New York Times reports.

Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson announced on Wednesday the arrest of eight men and women in three states, charged in a 541-count indictment for trafficking guns bought in Atlanta, Georgia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be sold in Brooklyn.

The New York Post reports that the NYCLU has requested to file an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the website ProPublica against the NYPD three years ago seeking information about the police department’s unmarked vehicles carrying mobile body scanner technology, called Z Backscatter Vans.

Last summer, the NYPD dragged a half-naked Brooklyn woman out of her apartment in handcuffs. Now, the New York Daily News reports, Denise Stewart, 49, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the police department.