NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the department is desperate to fill its ranks after unprecedented dips in new cops in the Big Apple in recent years.

The training run requirement, which was needed to graduate, was relaxed in 2023 when then NYPD Chief of Training Juanita ...

New York’s Finest’s often spotty responses to 311 calls will be tracked under a new NYPD “quality of life” crackdown, police ...

She says these changes will help rebuild the NYPD’s ranks while maintaining strong training standards. The NYPD currently has about 33,000 officers, down from 37,000 in 2017.

Effective immediately, the prerequisite requirement to enter the police academy will drop from 60 to 24 college credits, ...

“The NYPD was not ready for the volume,” Jason Tsulis, a gun license holder and plaintiff in the suit, said. “They did not have the proper training.” Last week, NY1 aired a report about ...

The NYPD has reduced its high-speed chases by 85 percent in little more than a month, but the street-safety policy change ...

The training run requirement, which was needed to graduate, was relaxed in 2023 when then NYPD Chief of Training Juanita Holmes lobbied to eliminate it, feeling it was unnecessary and an obstacle ...