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NYPD hate crimes task force probes Yom Kippur letters
New York City police are investigating a rabbi's complaint that threatening e-mails were sent to try to stop a ritual involving the slaughter of chickens before a Jewish holy day. Rabbi Shea Hecht of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Judaism, Police Investigations, Religious Festivals
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NYPD: Mobsters hit hot dog vendor with hammer
Police have accused two reputed Gambino crime family associates of shaking down a Bronx hot dog vendor and beating him with a hammer when he balked at their demands. The two and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges including gang assault and...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment
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NY rabbi says e-mail threats sent to stop ritual
campaign who added own comments to a PETA online form letter; CLARIFIES overlines. minor editing. APNewsNow. NEW YORK (AP) _ New York City police are investigating a rabbi's complaint that threatening e-mails were sent to try to stop a ritual...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Judaism, Police Investigations, Yom Kippur
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ABC's 'Life on Mars': A detective from 2008 does time for a mystery that lands him in 1973
AP Television WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ All comfortably familiar by cop-show standards, "Life on Mars" begins with NYPD Detective Sam Tyler nabbing a murder suspect, who then gets a grilling from him at the precinct house. He takes a phone call in the age-old squad room, which...Tags: Life on Mars, Astoria, Grey's Anatomy, Harvey Keitel, Lisa Bonet
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Colleagues, family pay tribute to Pigott in Islip
bart.jones@newsday.comThe rows of police officers stretched 300 yards along Main Street in Islip yesterday, and five officers deep. As they saluted the coffin of Lt. Michael Pigott, a New York City Police Department helicopter flew low overhead in a final tribute to the...Tags: Islip, Sayville, Emergency Planning, Raymond W. Kelly, New York
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Therapy now the norm for cops in traumatic situations
michael.amon@newsday.com; rocco.parascandola@newsday.comAfter a drunken driver plowed into a limousine on the Meadowbrook Parkway in 2005, killing the limo driver and decapitating a 7-year-old girl, emergency workers at the scene were gathered together. The purpose: to talk about what they had just seen. Once...Tags: Therapies, Emergency Planning, New York, Police Investigations, Suicide
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Funeral for NYPD `stun gun' officer
Hundreds of fellow police officers and firefighters have gathered on Long Island to remember the NYPD lieutenant who committed suicide after a stun-gun incident that killed an emotionally disturbed man. Before Monday's funeral for Lt. Michael Pigott...Tags: Fires, Islip, Suicide, Long Island, Weaponry
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Services set for NYPD Lt. Michael Pigott
joseph.mallia@newsday.comFamily, friends and colleagues of NYPD Lt. Michael Pigott will gather this weekend to mourn his loss. His wake will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Overton Funeral Home, 172 Main St., Islip. A funeral...Tags: Crimes, Islip, Murder, Death and Dying
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Four city cops with HIV get disability pensions
Four New York City police officers who contracted HIV while on duty have been granted disability pensions. The cases were disclosed as part of a lawsuit filed by a retired female officer who says she too was infected on the job and wants a tax-free...Tags: Retirement, Diseases, Wages and Pensions, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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TAKE 5: Name that '70s cop
In "Life on Mars," which premieres Thursday on ABC, New York detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) is hit by a car and finds himself mysteriously transported back to 1973. Of course, if this was an actual 1973 cop show, its title would have been "Tyler."...Tags: Life on Mars, Mike Connors, New York, Raymond Burr, Police
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Few thought cop would face criminal charges
It was written by Parascandola.In the days after Lt. Michael Pigott was identified as the cop who gave the order to use a Taser on Brooklyn psychiatric patient Iman Morales, colleagues and others told the embattled officer there was little chance he would face criminal charges. But...Tags: Mental Illness, Justice System, Murder, Lawyers, Crimes
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Cop's suicide shocks colleagues, Taser victim's family
rocco.parascaLt. Michael Pigott turned 46 yesterday, but before the sun rose, he slipped out of his Sayville home, drove to his former command in Brooklyn and fired a single bullet into his head, ending a life tormented since his order to Taser a psychiatric patient...Tags: Mental Illness, Emergency Planning, Raymond W. Kelly, Police Investigations, New York
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