Donlon alleges that Maddrey and other NYPD leaders in Adams’ inner circle tried to sabotage him, because they resented that he’d been appointed commissioner. The lawsuit accused Maddrey of deploying “spies” to monitor Donlon and feed him information.

The department is trying to fire the officers after determining they weren’t qualified to join the force in the first place based, they say, on checkered histories that include arrests, drug use,

A judge upheld a temporary restraining order, keeping the officers on the job as the legal fight over their employment status grinds through the courts.

More than two dozen New York City Police officers who allegedly failed background checks will stay on the job for now. A judge ruled Tuesday the NYPD cannot fire the officers for at least another two months, which means the 30 cops the NYPD says shouldn't have been hired will be staying on administrative duty.

Members of the NYPD Fugitive Task Force with U.S. marshals found Audwin Caines on W. 142nd St. in Harlem and cuffed him for the June 23 murder of Chaneil Ramsay.

A senior woman was mugged by a stranger on a residential block in East Elmhurst on the morning of Saturday, July 12, and police from the 115th Precinct in

Nearly three dozen NYPD officers who the department now says never should have been hired or promoted will be allowed to remain on the force, for now, amid the ongoing scandal.

The office, which has the power to look into deaths in which police played a role, is looking at what led to the hit-and-run death of Anthony Benitez Cabrera.