Mass Arrest of Brooklyn Youths Spotlights Tactics
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The arrests of 32 young people on their way to a friendâs wake have gotten widespread attention; police say they feared gang violence.
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Foreign-born New Yorkers who plead guilty to misdemeanors are increasingly being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
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The police try to establish a motive for an attack on a 15-year-old boy who is dragged from his bed and beaten.
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Police announced the arrests Friday of two alleged members of a radical leftist group similar to the Red Brigades.
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In a case that would seem unthinkable in the Jewish state, police said Sunday they have cracked a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused in a string of attacks on foreign workers, religious Jews, drug addicts and gays.
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Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets is not the first block you might try if you were looking to find boys and girls with guns. And none of Manhattan, for that matter, presents good odds for turning up children engaged in paramilitary maneuvers.
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The tactics used by youth gangs to silence witnesses are increasingly similar to those used by the Mafia.
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The attackers often are teens who strike with no provocation. "It all started off as a game," said Nathan Moore, a teen in prison for murdering Rex Baum, a homeless man living on the streets in Milwaukee. "We just started hitting him." Violent attacks against the homeless are at the highest level in a decade, with 20 deaths last year.
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The recent arrest of two Egyptian nationals in the past days led to the arrest and detention of two Maltese youths that were yesterday arraigned in Court over drug possession.
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Every new police officer in New York City will be sent onto the streets of some of the cityâs toughest neighborhoods as part of a broad anticrime operation, the city announced.
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The move this week by New York reflects concern about prison overcrowding and 'fairness.'
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A 4-year-old program that sends rookie police officers to crime hot spots in New York City has helped the city achieve the lowest crime rate in 17 years and will be doubled in size in 2008, police officials say.
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It used to bug Georgina Smith every time she drove by the Clean Rite Center laundromat in one of Brooklyn's tougher neighborhoods. She'd look inside and see children &#151; lots of them &#151; sitting around, playing video games or watching TV.
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:Police arrested seven people in nationwide raids targeting a suspected Islamic terror ring that was reportedly preparing for an attack.
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New Yorkers know how to hide when crowds roll in.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 8--The cold embrace of handcuffs would serve as a powerful attention-getter for most wrongdoers.
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Police on Long Island, New York, said they arrested two teens on Friday on charges of conspiring to attack staff and students at a high school.