But never more so, Bruce Chadwick argues in “Law & Disorder”—his study of the genesis of the city’s modern police force—than in the first decades of the 19th century. The terrible draft ...

The NYPD came into being in 1898 ... There was even a time in the 19th century when New York had two police departments, the Municipals and the Metropolitan, each battling for the right to ...

Nearly a century after his death, an NYPD detective is being remembered and honored for his gallant service to the city.

In a tribute that was 102 years in the making, the grave of an NYPD cop ... in-law. A century passed with Flood in anonymous repose. Then in 2016, a crime prevention officer in the 19th precinct ...

A headstone will be unveiled this week for NYPD Det. Joseph Pucciano, nearly 100 years after the legendary sleuth’s death, ...

Those photos of a person's face and profile trace their roots to Paris in the late 19th century. Now ... there are three parts of a mug shot the NYPD takes after arresting someone: the front ...