Tag: NYPD

The NYPD just busted a ring of alleged drug dealers that had reportedly cornered the heroin market in Brooklyn's North Williamsburg area. The group of seven was caught on surveillance cameras openly selling drugs on a street corner near the Cooper Park housing projects; they were even recorded hiding their product in a magnetic lock-box stashed behind a metal sign. And if you've ever wondered ...

Share Since 2002, the NYPD has conducted over 50 raids on the same house in Brooklyn. Each time, it has made the same mistake, all thanks to one computer glitch. According to the New York Post, the whole snafu began in 2002, when police entered the Brooklyn address of Walter Martin, 83, and his wife Rose, 82, into an alert database. They originally used the address to run a test on the system, ...

Although we seem to daily hear reports of stupid criminals being foiled by technology, some deviants have devised some clever uses for their tech, including turning cell phones into weapons and hiding places. According to Newsday, an incredibly common way to smuggle a weapon in a cell phone (specifically a T-Mobile Sidekick) is to hide a razor blade within the battery compartment between the ...

After Detective Omar Edwards was shot and killed by friendly fire while in plain clothes on May 28th, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly began seeking a way for firearms to communicate with one another in order to stop accidents like this from happening again. According to FOX News, the NYPD has initiated preliminary discussions about such devices with the Pacific Northwest National ...

If the New York Police Department had a dollar for every attempted hack on its computer system, New York cops would be driving around in Ferraris instead of those horrid Crown Victorias (or Impalas). In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that hackers try to breach the NYPD's computer system at least 70,000 times a day, according to the ...

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is considering implementing a system where images taken from mobile devices could be uploaded directly to police department computers. What an idea! Forgive us for the sarcasm, but this should have been done years ago. According to a recent article by the Reuters news agency, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said "It's a fact of life. Everybody ...