The NYPD welcomed nearly 1,100 new recruits to its police academy on Wednesday — the largest Finest-in-training contingent sworn in by the department in nearly a decade. The 1,093-strong class is the ...

Earlier this year, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch frankly admitted to city political and business leaders that the department faced a crisis by losing so many experienced officers through retirements ...

The NYPD will rename its academy in honor of Det. Steven McDonald, who was paralyzed after being shot in Central Park in 1986 and later became a global advocate for peace and forgiveness. Commissioner ...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is promising the “most significant overhaul” of police training in decades, as the department seeks to build on a year of record declines in violent crime across New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McDonald was shot on the job and became a quadriplegic in 1986 before dying in 2017. For decades he inspired others with his act ...

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The NYPD Academy in College Point, Queens, will be renamed the Steven D. McDonald Police Academy, after late Detective Steven McDonald (inset), who was shot and paralyzed in Central Park in 1986.

What I get from the news announcement is that after completing the Police Academy, the new, graduated police, are going to other jobs outside NYC. The training they get in the academy is probably the ...