Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is patrolling the streets of the World Wide Web. According to the New York Daily News, the commissioner released a list of what the city’s 35,000 officers can and cannot put up on their personal social media sites. A three-page NYPD memo, obtained by The News, states “Members of the service should [...]
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly spoke out the other day about how local politicians are not doing all they can concerning the violence in their local communities. Kelly says they are not actively engaging community leaders to be proactive to stem the violence. I say Kudos to Kelly for saying what had to be said. The [...]
The shells are gone, but the discussion over whose responsibility it is to keep the streets safe has broken out into a different sort of fire fight. After a wave of citywide violence that included several deaths in Queens, elected officials and the NYPD have each said the other side has to do more to [...]
A nine-year-old girl remains in stable but guarded condition after she was allegedly stabbed by her own mother. The incident happened on Tuesday, May 29 in a Springfield Gardens home where the pair, from Suffolk County, had been visiting. “We’re still trying to sort out the facts, the reason why this happened,” Police Commissioner Raymond [...]
A large-scale bust landed 45 people – alleged members of two drug organizations operating in southeast Queens – in jail on drug, weapons and other charges. The two organizations were allegedly being run by a set of the Bloods street gang known as the “South Side Bloods” and by James “Wall” Corley, an original member [...]
![[UPDATE] Suspect charged with hate crime in fire bomb attacks](http://queenscourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/A5C8485w-140x105.jpg "[UPDATE] Suspect charged with hate crime in fire bomb attacks")
The man picked up by police in connection with a string of five fire bombings, four in Queens and one on Long Island, confessed to authorities and has been charged with a hate crime. Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, was tracked through a stolen car eyewitnesses saw at the scene of at least two of the [...]
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced the arrest of Antonio Olmeda, age 53 of Manhattan, in the attempted shooting of two New York City police officers on December 2nd in Jackson Heights, Queens. “Our officers miraculously escaped injury when their assailant fired at extremely close range, narrowly missing them,” Commissioner Kelly [...]
Police arrested 141 individuals – 21 in Queens – purchasing what they believed was stolen electronics during an undercover operation throughout the city. Undercover officers targeted locations that were suspected of receiving stolen merchandise in the past and offered Apple iPhone 4s and iPad 2s that the merchants believed to be stolen for vast discounts, [...]
Fiancee of Sean Bell urges NYPD Chief Ray Kelly to fire officers in beau’s shooting death Sean Bell’s fiancée Thursday urged the city’s top cop to sack all five officers who fired in the shooting frenzy that killed her beau on their wedding day in 2006. Nicole Paultre-Bell made the demand of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly after an [...]
At Detective Anthony J. Venditti Memorial Plaza’s rededication in 1995, a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes was quoted. Paul Kerzner of the Ridgewood Local Development Corporation echoed the same sentiments on Sunday, October 16 at the plaza honoring the slain police officer. “I have seen all matter of things; a just man perishing in [...]
