Tag: police

Irene Wilkowitz urged authorities to find the person who killed her sister, Eve Wilkowitz, in Bay Shore, for four decades. This year, she finally got her answer.

The Suffolk County Police Department has launched a transparency hub on its website where anyone can go online and see data and records on police activity, County Executive Steve Bellone and Commissioner Rodney Harrison announced on Tuesday.

The moment a gas tanker exploded into a fireball in Rockville Centre was caught on surveillance video Wednesday, according to local officials.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order Wednesday stating that Nassau County Police Department must release daily reports on each arrested individual’s pending criminal case and bail status.

“The Chief of Detectives for the Nassau County Police Department, the first black woman to hold that role. And now she will make history again as the first woman to become commissioner of the largest police department in our country, if not the globe,” New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams said.

The Nassau County Legislature voted 12-6 in favor of a bill Monday night that would allow police officers to sue protesters for harassment or injury and make those individuals liable for up to $50,000 in civil fines, after five hours of public comment from a diverse showing of more than 40 constituents largely opposing the measure.

The Nassau County Police Department reportedly hired 17 former New York Police Department (NYPD) officers who were accused of misconduct over a 5-year period, sparking outrage among critics calling for police reform.

Suffolk County has launched a new program aimed at getting illegal guns off the streets.

State Attorney General Letitia James announced she won’t bring criminal charges against Nassau County cops in the 2020 killing of 19-year-old Matthew Felix in Cambria Heights.

An alleged hit-and-run driver who allegedly killed rapper Nicki Minaj's father in Mineola last week has surrendered to Nassau County police, authorities said.