The New York City Police Department (NYPD),officially the City of New York Police Department,is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23,1845,the NYPD is the largest,and one of the oldest,municipal police departments in the United States.
A chief of police (COP) is the title given to an appointed official or an elected one in the chain of command of a police department,particularly in North America. A chief of police may also be known as a police chief or sometimes just a chief,while some countries favour other titles such as commissioner or chief constable. A police chief is appointed by and answerable to a state or local government.
The Philadelphia Police Department is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the City of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. The PPD is one of the oldest municipal police agencies,fourth-largest police force and sixth-largest non-federal law enforcement agency in the United States. Since records were first kept in 1828,at least 289 PPD officers have died in the line of duty.
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American law enforcement officer and businessman who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner. He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities –New York and Los Angeles.
The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is the municipal police department of the city of Baltimore,Maryland. Dating back to 1784,the BPD,consisting of 2,935 employees in 2020,is organized into nine districts covering 80.9 square miles (210 km2) of land and 11.1 square miles (29 km2) of waterways. The department is sometimes referred to as the Baltimore City Police Department to distinguish it from the Baltimore County Police Department.
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP),formerly Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization group of current and former police,judges,prosecutors,and other criminal justice professionals who use their expertise to advance drug policy and criminal justice solutions that enhance public safety. The organization is modeled after Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As of April 2017
John Francis Timoney was an American policeman and law enforcement executive. He served as Chief of the Miami Police Department from 2003 to 2010. He was previously Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (1998–2002) and held a variety of positions with the New York Police Department (1967–96),including its Chief of Department and First Deputy Commissioner. He worked for the Ministry of the Interior of Bahrain as a police consultant. Timoney drew both international praise and criticism for his handling of mass protests.
Hugo Teufel III is an American lawyer and former government official.
The killing of Timothy Stansbury Jr. occurred in New York City on January 24,2004. Stansbury was an unarmed 19-year-old in New York City who was shot and killed by New York Police Department Officer Richard S. Neri Jr. Officer Neri and a partner were patrolling the rooftop of a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn at about 1 a.m. Officer Neri,with his gun drawn,approached a rooftop door to check the stairway inside. Neri testified to a Brooklyn grand jury that he fired his standard Glock 19 pistol unintentionally when he was startled as Stansbury pushed open the rooftop door. Stansbury,a resident of an adjoining building,died from one shot in the chest. The grand jury found the shooting to be accidental.
Orlando Winfield Wilson,also known as O. W. Wilson,was an American police officer,later becoming a leader in policing along with authoring several books on policing. Wilson served as Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department,chief of police in Fullerton,California and Wichita,Kansas.
The St. Louis County Police Department (SLCPD) is the primary and largest law enforcement agency serving St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The current Chief of Police is Colonel Kenneth Gregory. According to the Charter of St. Louis County,the county police chief has all of the criminal law enforcement duties of the sheriff of St. Louis County,except for the operation of the St. Louis County Jail,which is handled by the St. Louis County Department of Justice Services (civilian),court bailiff and service of civil process. Court bailiff/civil process duties are provided by a court-appointed sheriff and his employees,none of whom have law enforcement powers.
The Omaha Police Department (OPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Omaha,Nebraska,United States. It is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The OPD is the largest law enforcement agency in the state of Nebraska.
Gerald Speziale is an American law enforcement officer and Public Safety Director of the Paterson Police Department and the Paterson Fire Department in Paterson,New Jersey. A former member of the New York City Police Department,Speziale has also served as the Sheriff of Passaic County,New Jersey,as Deputy Police Superintendent - Assistant Director of Public Safety for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department,and as Chief of Police for the City of Prichard,Alabama. He has worked as an undercover officer in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),and for the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force while in the NYPD.
Richard W. "Rich" Stanek is an American politician and former law enforcement officer who served as the sheriff of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office from 2007 to 2019.
Police reform in the United States is an ongoing process that seeks to reform systems of law enforcement throughout the United States. Many goals of the police reform movement center on police accountability. Specific goals may include:lowering the criminal intent standard,limiting or abolishing qualified immunity for law enforcement officers,sensitivity training,conflict prevention and mediation training,updating legal frameworks,and granting administrative subpoena power to the U.S. Department of Justice for "pattern or practice" investigations into police misconduct and police brutality.
Danielle Outlaw is an American former law enforcement officer. She served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department in Philadelphia from 2020 to 2023,chief of police of the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon from 2017 to 2019,and deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department in California form 2013 to 2017.
Samuel W. Nolan was an American police officer for the Chicago Police Department who served as the interim superintendent of the department briefly from April 25,1979 or September 1,1979 until January 11,1980. Nolan was the first African American to serve in any capacity as head of the Chicago Police Department.
Regina Rush-Kittle is an American law enforcement officer,soldier,and public administrator. She has held trailblazing leadership roles in the Connecticut State Police,the US Army Reserve,and the Connecticut State Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2017.
Howard R. Leary was an American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department from 1963 to 1966 and New York City Police Commissioner from 1966 to 1970.
