Ailsa Chang

A high-ranking police union boss trying to deflect scrutiny from officers caught up in the ticket fixing scandal in the Bronx is compiling what he says is evidence that shows commanding officers throughout the five boroughs condoned the practice for politicians and celebrities and other VIP offenders.

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Five people were charged in court papers unsealed in federal court in New York, and authorities revealed that a sixth person, Hector Xavier Monsegur of New York, has pleaded guilty.

See what criminal justice reporter Ailsa Chang has on her reading list this morning.

See what criminal justice reporter Ailsa Chang has on her reading list this morning:

A coalition of City Council members and advocates led by Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn introduced Wednesday a package of police reform bills the group says will bring greater accountability to the NYPD.

Calls are mounting for a federal investigation of the NYPD's secret surveillance of mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in Newark. New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and Representativ...

Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Harlem Monday to protest what they call mass incarceration of minority men by a racist prison system. 

Defense lawyers say the New York State Board of Parole is violating a court ruling handed down last Tuesday that requires serious offenders to be treated the same as other offenders when it comes to revoking parole. 

Legal Experts say a new change to the New York Police Department's policy for using deadly force will do nothing to shield officers from liability in lawsuits brought by innocent bystanders injured in crossfire. 

The NYPD conducted 684,330 stops in 2011, the highest number on record since the City Council started collecting stop-and-frisk data in 2002.  Twelve percent of the stops resulted in an arrest of summons, and one in every 666 stops resulted in an arrest for possession of a firearm.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered a citywide audit of all street-level narcotics teams after investigators discovered the cop who shot an unarmed Bronx man was not qualified for the detail he was assigned to the day of the incident.

New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn on Tuesday came out with her strongest criticism to date of the police department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying the stops have "sown distrust in communities of color." 

About 20,000 New Yorkers who were illegally arrested by the NYPD for loitering will get $15 million as part of a class action settlement approved Monday by a Manhattan federal judge.

Last year, New York City police officers made the greatest number of marijuana arrests in more than a decade, according to new state records.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne has made headlines for backtracking on earlier remarks he made about the police commissioner's involvement in an inflammatory film about Muslim terrorists. Critics have called for his resignation for what they claim are misleading remarks, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg and top cop Ray Kelly, have stood by the top aide.

New Yorkers are paying about 23 percent more for state prisons than the state corrections budget actually reflects, according to a new study by the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice research organization.

Police commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday he has no plans to resign following calls for him to step down after it was revealed that nearly 1,500 officers were shown an anti-Muslim film in which the city’s top cop appears as an interviewee.

The NYPD is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop technology that can detect concealed firearms at a distance.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had no apologies for the organizers of the New York City Marathon, who say they have to raise entry fees because the New York City Police Department is going to start charging them for event security.