The New Orleans Police Department is reassigning 22 officers from various districts and divisions across the city to a newly formed gang unit, according to a report by WVUE-TV on ...

The New Orleans Police Department's homicide investigators will soon have a new commander, about three months after a workplace harassment complaint apparently forced his predecessor out of the unit.

Just two weeks before Saturday’s mass shooting on Claiborne Avenue, members of the NOPD's street gang unit were transferred to another department as part of a shift in how the department combats ...

The Canarsie-raised rapper — real name Bashar Jackson — was first grilled by an NYPD gang unit detective when he was arrested in December 2019 for possessing a stolen $375,000 Rolls Royce ...

During the last eight years, the NYPD has framed the city’s violence problems as increasingly “gang related.” They have doubled the size of the gang unit, engaged in widespread social media ...

But NOPD spokeswoman Remi Braden says, "The officers who make up the unit are not officers who responded to 'calls for service', but were previously assigned to district task forces to make ...

As part of "Operation Crew Cut," the NYPD will double the size of its anti-gang unit to 300 officers to stop local street crews that are increasingly responsible for committing violent crimes.

The New Orleans Police Department fired a 15-year veteran of the force on Wednesday after investigators said the officer committed payroll fraud, violating the department's paid detail policy.

The NYPD has formed a new social media unit to nab crooks who talk about their crimes, including gang activity on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.

In 1999, the “rap intel” unit, a subset of the NYPD’s Gang Intelligence Unit, was officially created, with Derrick Parker at the helm. Its main job was to gather information on everyone in ...

This year, there have been 219 shooting victims in the Bronx — an astonishing 40.4% increase from the 156 victims in 2017, before the Raise the Age Law passed, NYPD data show.