Ailsa Chang

Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Harlem Monday to protest what they call mass incarceration of minority men by a racist prison system. 

Defense lawyers say the New York State Board of Parole is violating a court ruling handed down last Tuesday that requires serious offenders to be treated the same as other offenders when it comes to revoking parole. 

Legal Experts say a new change to the New York Police Department's policy for using deadly force will do nothing to shield officers from liability in lawsuits brought by innocent bystanders injured in crossfire. 

The NYPD conducted 684,330 stops in 2011, the highest number on record since the City Council started collecting stop-and-frisk data in 2002.  Twelve percent of the stops resulted in an arrest of summons, and one in every 666 stops resulted in an arrest for possession of a firearm.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered a citywide audit of all street-level narcotics teams after investigators discovered the cop who shot an unarmed Bronx man was not qualified for the detail he was assigned to the day of the incident.

New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn on Tuesday came out with her strongest criticism to date of the police department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying the stops have "sown distrust in communities of color." 

About 20,000 New Yorkers who were illegally arrested by the NYPD for loitering will get $15 million as part of a class action settlement approved Monday by a Manhattan federal judge.

Last year, New York City police officers made the greatest number of marijuana arrests in more than a decade, according to new state records.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne has made headlines for backtracking on earlier remarks he made about the police commissioner's involvement in an inflammatory film about Muslim terrorists. Critics have called for his resignation for what they claim are misleading remarks, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg and top cop Ray Kelly, have stood by the top aide.

New Yorkers are paying about 23 percent more for state prisons than the state corrections budget actually reflects, according to a new study by the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice research organization.

Police commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday he has no plans to resign following calls for him to step down after it was revealed that nearly 1,500 officers were shown an anti-Muslim film in which the city’s top cop appears as an interviewee.

The NYPD is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop technology that can detect concealed firearms at a distance.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had no apologies for the organizers of the New York City Marathon, who say they have to raise entry fees because the New York City Police Department is going to start charging them for event security.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's practices after getting blasted in a letter from an upstate politician claiming it was using the state's water while polluting the waterways and causing economic hardship in the region.

The start of a new year means several new laws go into effect Sunday. Some are expected, such as cap levels for property taxes, but others are quirkier, like one new law dealing with ...

Public employee unions for New York State workers are suing the Cuomo administration in federal court in Albany over the state's decision to raise health care contributions for current retirees. The bump-up would raise the employee share 2 percent for both individual and family plans.

The shooting of a police officer in Brooklyn on Monday is raising questions about why the alleged killer was never picked up by authorities in North Carolina despite being wanted for a summer shooting there.

The New York City Planning Commission is rolling out a set of proposed changes to the city's zoning regulations Monday that would help give a boost to property owners who want to make their buildings greener.

Marijuana arrests in New York City are still high, but slowing down slightly. Still, the dip in such arrests hasn’t stopped allegations that police officers are still making imp...

Abortion rights advocates are criticizing the New York City Police Department for charging a Washington Heights woman with self-abortion in the first degree.