Last July, NYPD Officer Ymmacula Pierre and her partner found Kenneth Sanden dead after being called to his East Village apartment by a concerned relative. So Pierre allegedly did what any respectable cop would do: pocket the dead man’s Mastercard and use it to buy a diamond ring.

NYPD officers reportedly shot a hammer-wielding man this morning in midtown Manhattan. The man, who the New York Post reports was shot in the head, allegedly tried to attack in officer with a hammer at 37th Street and 8th Ave.

Yesterday morning, between 9:30 and 9:40 a.m. (yes, I was running late to work) I was the victim of sexual misconduct at the Fulton Street subway stop, at the exit near Fulton and William streets. The MTA and the NYPD failed to provide substantial measures in responding to and reporting the incident.

Brian Moore, the NYPD officer who was shot in the face Saturday evening in Queens, has died, according to the New York Post and CBS News.

On Saturday, a plainclothes New York City police officer in an unmarked car was shot in the face after driving up to a man to question him, the New York Times reports. The officer is in critical but stable condition.

NYPD officers shot and killed a man as they tried to arrest him Saturday afternoon at a halfway house in the East Village, the New York Post reports. Police said the man was wanted on a robbery charge.

Just eight months ago, Anthony “Tony Bees” Planakis had nothing but kind words for the police department where he’d served, until recently, as detective and resident apiarist. Now, he’s buzzing a different tune. “I had no choice but to retire,” Tony Bees told the New York Post. “I was blackballed.”

It's bad enough that the "broken windows theory" of policing, with its constant harassment of small-time hustlers, is back in vogue in New York City. Do they have to steal the churros, too?

A Bronx teenager who fell from the roof of a six-story apartment building on Thursday while trying to evade police officers died of his injuries at St. Barnabas Hospital on Saturday, the New York Times reports. Seventeen-year-old Hakeem Kuta was born in Ghana and moved to New York a few years ago with his family.

The New York cop caught on camera insulting and yelling at an Uber driver who dared to suggest he use his blinker is being transferred from his current position on an elite joint terrorism task force, officials said Wednesday.

In cell phone footage sent to the New York Daily News, an alleged plainclothes NYPD cop is seen yelling at an Uber driver in an apparent parking dispute that escalates into the officer shouting xenophobic remarks.

The New York Daily News reports that the NYPD has questioned film mogul Harvey Weinstein about allegations that he groped a 22-year-year old woman this weekend at Weinstein's office*.

What do police officers do when they witness their colleagues abusing citizens or otherwise behaving badly? To what degree is modern law enforcement driven by a focus on generating statistics? Why didn't the cops beat me up when I threw rocks at them as a teen? Do you consider yourself a hero?

Police officers turn up a lot in Gawker stories, but unless they’re a department commissioner giving a press conference or a union leader loudly berating a public official, it’s rare that they actually have a voice. What does the average beat cop think about Darren Wilson or Daniel Pantaleo? What is he looking for when he makes a stop for suspicious activity? Gawker’s anonymous cop is here to answer our readers’ most pressing questions.

NYPD officers reportedly discovered a grisly death scene at a luxury apartment complex this weekend after the missing woman's parents called 911 requesting a wellness check.

The NYPD has been showing a scene from Patrick Swayze's underrated 1989 classic Road House as part of a mandatory, three-day retraining course for 22,000 cops, the New York Post reports. It's the part where Swayze tells a bunch of tough guys to "be nice."

An off-duty NYPD sergeant was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping an underage girl.

Peter Liang, the rookie NYPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project last year, has been indicted for the killing, according to sources who spoke with the New York Daily News and Pix11.

The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teenager shot and killed in his grandmother's bathroom by an NYPD officer in February 2012, has agreed to a $3.9 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against the city, the New York Daily News reports.

The NYPD takes threats against police very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that a 17-year-old was arrested on Sunday for allegedly threatening police officers with emojis on his Facebook page.