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Alex Barclay

In 2003, she left the fashion industry to write Darkhouse, the first of two novels featuring NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi.

Alexander S. Williams

He, along with William "Big Bill" Devery and Thomas F. Byrnes, were among several senior NYPD officials implicated by the Lexow Committee during the 1890s.

Angelo Ruggiero

Gotti and Ruggiero were extremely proud of the fact that they intimidated the Secret Service and the NYPD as being potentially harmful to President Ronald Reagan.

Audre Lorde Project

The group helped to found the Coalition Against Police Brutality and People's Justice 2000 soon after the killings by police officers of unarmed men of color Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima, as well as annual Racial Justice Days, focusing on the appeals of families of color who suffered violence by the NYPD.

BlueLine

BlueLine is a product of Bratton Technologies, Inc., a company founded by NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, Jack Weiss and David Riker with founding team members Michael Mancuso, Daniel Geske, Jill Yorke, Mark McCorkle, Alison Shames, and Stef Weiss.

Carmine Agnello

Undercover New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had set up a phony scrap metal business in Willets Point, Queens.

Charter Arms Bulldog

In the novel Gun Machine one of the discovered guns is a .44 Bulldog, which reveals to be a major clue when the gun turns out to be the same gun Son of Sam used, stolen from NYPD evidence.

Citibank

Political cartoonist Michel Kichka satirized Citibank in his 1982 poster "And I Love New York." The lettering above the entrance to a New York City branch read "Citibang." Meanwhile, a stocking-wearing bank robber exits and fires shots at NYPD officers responding to the robbery.

Dorothy Uhnak

All three novels featured Christie Opara, an NYPD detective assigned to the Manhattan District Attorney Office, where Uhnak herself was assigned for many years.

Eischied

The series stars Joe Don Baker as tough, brilliant, southern-bred New York City Police Department, NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied.

Emmett Fitzsimmons

Robert Emmett Fitzsimmons, known professionally as Emmett Fitzsimmons, is a former member of the NYPD police officer who has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Nurse Jackie, Burn Notice, and The Cape.

Feerick

Patricia Feerick, former NYPD Lieutenant sentenced to serve jail time for abuse of police powers

Festering Season

At the same time, Paul Whythe, a cultural anthropology professor at New York University is asked to consult with the NYPD’s Cult Related Task Force on dead body unearthed in Brooklyn Heights.

Fort Apache, The Bronx

Among them are NYPD officers Murphy (Newman) and Corelli (Wahl), who work out of the 41st precinct, nicknamed "Fort Apache" because to those who work there, it feels like an army outpost in foreign territory (an allusion to Fort Apache out of the Old West).

Frank Serpico

Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is a retired American New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who is most famous for blowing the whistle on police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s—an act of valor that compelled Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate the NYPD.

Harlem riot

Harlem Riot of 1964, six days of civil disorder that occurred after an African American teenager was shot and killed by an NYPD lieutenant

Joe Esposito

Joseph Esposito (born 1950), American law enforcement official who joined New York City Police Department (NYPD) at age 18 and rose through ranks to reach, in August 2000, highest uniformed position, Chief of Department

John F. O'Donohue

A twenty-year veteran of the NYPD, his first acting role was that of an armed guard in Knots Landing in 1991.

Last Days of Coney Island

Last Days of Coney Island is an upcoming project written, produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement district.

Major Case Squad

The series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, depicts a fictionalized version of the NYPD Major Case Squad, one that investigates murders, which the real Major Case Squad does not do.

Michael Sheehan

Michael A. Sheehan, former Ambassador at Large for Counter-terrorism and Deputy Commissioner for Terrorism, NYPD

New Springville, Staten Island

In 2005, Gambino family capo Carmine Sciandra was shot outside of his Top Tomato supermarket store located in New Springville by a former NYPD officer who was in the presence of two Bonanno crime family gangsters.

New York Civil Liberties Union

On June 23, 2010, the State Senate passed a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D-57th AD) and Sen. Eric Adams (D-20th SD), which calls for the NYPD to shut down this database.

No Place on Earth

In 1993, NYPD officer and caving enthusiast Chris Nicola visited Ukraine to explore the Verteba and Priest's Grotto caves, and found evidence that they had recently been inhabited by humans.

Nola Falacci

Falacci is introduced in the episode "Seeds" as the temporary partner of Det. Mike Logan (Chris Noth), assigned to the Major Case Squad of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), due to Det. Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) going over to Europe to teach American police procedure to European police officers (covering Nicholson's first maternity leave).

Public Morals

Bill Brochtrup's character John Irvin, a gay administrative assistant, had been imported into the show from the drama NYPD Blue, and would return to NYPD Blue after the cancellation of Public Morals.

Randy Jurgensen

He was forced to retire from the NYPD, pleading Nolo contendere to a series of charges brought up on by the NYPD.

Rebel Diaz

On June 18, 2008, two days after returning from a conference in Berlin, Germany, G1 and RodStarz were arrested by the NYPD when they were showing a friend around the South Bronx.

Serpico

Finally, after being shot in the face during a drug bust on February 3, 1971, he testifies before the Knapp Commission, a government inquiry into NYPD police corruption between 1970 and 1972.

Sheldon Hawkes

Casey with help from a guard he's blackmailing changes into an NYPD patrol officer's uniform and escapes in full view of the Pennsylvania State Police.

Sipowicz

Andy Sipowicz, a fictional character from the television series NYPD Blue

Special Victims Unit

The television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spin-off in the Law & Order franchise, follows the cases of a fictional NYPD SVU division.

SWAT vehicle

Lenco BearCats are currently used by various agencies such as the LAPD, NYPD and Australian Police Tactical Groups.

The Tested

Armando Riesco as Julian Varone, an NYPD cop who is facing the most difficult time of his life...getting back to work after nearly a year off duty due to an accidental shooting of an unarmed black teen.

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

He reaches New York and starts his investigation with NYPD detective Anderson (Lev Gorn).


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