A report from a court-appointed watchdog details “troubling” conduct and “unconstitutional” stops by the Police Department’s Community Response Team — a unit championed by Mayor Eric Adams.

New NYPD Commissioner’s Focus on Community Policing Is a Distraction, Not a Solution James O'Neill, taking over from William Bratton, plans to emphasize meaningless reforms that leave police ...

NYPD neighborhood policing program aims to ease tensions between officers and community In 2017, New York City saw some of its lowest violent crime numbers in decades.

The NYPD is reaching out to activists and young people to attend the Build the Block meetings meant to inform the Neighborhood Policing program. But that's not the crowd who's showing up.

For more on the NYPD neighborhood policing program, click here. The website also lets you look up your neighborhood to see when and where there will be a community meeting.

Neighborhood policing, sometimes referred to as community policing, launched as a pilot in four precincts in May 2015. The program, part of the NYPD’s evolving approach to preventative measures, is an ...

Community policing tends to turn all neighborhood problems into police problems. Across the country, community police programs have been based on the idea that the community should bring its myriad of ...

The NYPD hopes community policing can build trust and reduce crime. The NYPD hopes community policing can build trust and reduce crime. Lucas Jackson/ Reuters New York Police Department ...

In a city with, as Bratton puts it, “something like 275 recognized neighborhoods, all with different priorities and problems that changed from time to time,” the NYPD also had to be adaptive. No two ...

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit ...

“The lack of transparency regarding NYPD’s Community Response Team risks non-compliance with the law, ethical breaches, and negative policing outcomes,” DOI Inspector General Jeanene Barrett ...

An NYPD unit that will focus on non-emergency issues like illegal parking, outdoor drug use, aggressive panhandling and noise complaints will begin work in five precincts across the city starting ...