How does a plunging New York City murder rate look from a global perspective? We chart the numbers by neighborhood - from Libya to Poland to Vietnam. ⧸ Full Story

The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long? ⧸ Full Story

What's the right punishment for drinking a beer in the park? Or staying there past 1 a.m.? For Brooklyn Judge Alex Calabrese, it's whatever helps the offender and the community get to a better place. ⧸ Full Story

As a record number of lawsuits against the city's police move into litigation, the price tag is $150 million a year and growing. Where will it stop? ⧸ Full Story

The new Mayor's Management Report shows increases in wait times for autopsies, sex crime DNA and other procedures ⧸ Full Story

The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed. ⧸ Full Story

This week we launched a map showing where the NYPD is giving out pink slips for minor legal infractions, such as public drinking and riding a bike on a sidewalk. Now we would like to hear your opinion. Does the NYPD issue too many summonses or are pink slips necessary to keep order in the city? ⧸ Full Story

Is the NYPD violating New Yorkers civil rights one summons at a time? What the geography of 350,000 pink slips in New York City reveals. ⧸ Full Story

Supporters of three imprisoned Russian members of the punk-rock performance group Pussy Riot were arrested today in New York City. Many wore masks in solidarity with the artists, who were sentenced on Friday morning to two years in prison for performing a “punk prayer” protesting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s central church. The members of… ⧸ Full Story

The limited options for targets of demands for private information ⧸ Full Story

A new order of steel barriers is just one item on the NYPD's latest equipment shopping list ⧸ Full Story

Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City's 50 most frequent locations for police stops ⧸ Full Story

Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to a lawsuit condemning the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices. Her decision comes in a 2008 suit filed by four men claiming their fourth amendment constitutional rights were compromised by the NYPD, and allows thousands more plaintiffs to take part in the legal challenge. The… ⧸ Full Story

The NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy is failing in the very area it was designed to target — gun control — according to new analysis released by the New York Civil Liberties Union today.  The detailed interrogation of the police department’s own stop-and-frisk records indicates a record 685,724 people were stopped and frisked by… ⧸ Full Story

Many worshipers say they're resigned to the scrutiny they receive as part of anti-terrorism policing ⧸ Full Story

Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police ⧸ Full Story

What rules govern the NYPD when it operates outside of New York City? In the past few days, the Associated Press has published two reports detailing aggressive surveillance of Muslims by the New York Police Department. One of the most notable aspects of this surveillance is where it took place: on college campuses across the… ⧸ Full Story

Detective Debra Eager pleaded guilty to three counts of perjury ⧸ Full Story

Industry lobbyists and patient advocates fight Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proposal for an online database of prescribed drugs ⧸ Full Story

Only 13 percent of the 4.3 million stops made by city police in the last decade have led to an arrest or summons ⧸ Full Story