By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and New York police were trying to find out Sunday who left a Nissan Pathfinder with a crude bomb inside in Times Square Saturday night that prompted the evacuation of parts of the city on a busy Saturday night. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the FBI in…
Len Levitt wrote the police column “One Police Plaza” for Newsday for 10 years and has worked for several other publications including Time magazine. His website is nypdconfidential.com By Len Levitt nypdconfidential.com There is more cause for concern about the NYPD’s Lone Cowboy behavior the more we learn about the department’s dealings with the Queens…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York City officers involved in the highly controversial fatal shooting of Sean Bell — he was shot 50 times on his wedding day in 2006 — are off the hook. The Justice Department announced Tuesday there was insufficient evidence to file civil rights charges against the officers in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No matter the cost, one thing is certain: It ain’t going to be cheap. The Associated Press is reporting that New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly says the cost of providing security for the upcoming federal trial of five Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack suspects will far exceed the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you think of ex-NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, you can’t help but think how far he has fallen from the good graces of this nation. After all, at one point he almost became chief of the Department of Homeland Security. On Tuesday, a federal judge revoked his $500,000 bail and…
Robert Mueller III/fbi photo You would never expect the FBI’s Robert Mueller to go before Congress and point fingers at the missteps of another law enforcement agency, that is unless things really really went wrong. In this case, some things may have gone wrong, but not wrong enough to air things in public. By EILEEN…
No matter how many times you do it, you can’t train enough for a terrorism attack. There’s always variables that can arise during the real thing that never came up during training. The more you train, the more variables you can anticipate. By Tom Hays Associated Press NEW YORK — The FBI was scrambling. Agents…
People expect big things from New York. The police department’s counterterrorism unit doesn’t disappoint with it’s global reach. By Christopher Dickey Newsweek In sweltering Mumbai last November, two days after the terrorist rampage that killed or wounded more than 500 people, some odd figures joined the alphabet soup of agencies investigating the atrocity-three New York…
