Apr 25th, 2008 · A judge in New York has found three NYPD officers not guilty in the shooting death of Sean Bell. Bell was leaving his bachelor party when the officers fired more than 50 shots at him and his friends. Bell supporters say he was shot because he was black, and the police officers say they thought he was armed.
Apr 25th, 2008 · Three NYPD detectives have been found not guilty in the shooting death of Sean Bell. The officers fired 50 shots at Bell and his companions who were unarmed. NPR's Robert Smith has an update on the emotional reaction at the courthouse in Queens, N.Y.
Feb 19th, 2008 · Criminal charges have been dropped against Leonardo Blair, an African-American reporter for the New York Post who says he was wrongly stopped, searched, and arrested by New York City police. David Harris and Donna Lieberman discuss the developments and data showing a history of racial profiling in the city.
Dec 4th, 2007 · Leonardo Blair, a reporter for the New York Post, says he was wrongly stopped, searched, and arrested by New York City police. Blair is joined by cultural critic Stanley Crouch to discuss implications of "stop and frisk" police tactics.
Aug 10th, 2006 · Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is based on the Ground Zero ordeal of two New York Port Authority police officers and their rescuers, including one from the NYPD. Two of the cops depicted in the film discuss their ordeal: one who was trapped, a second came to the rescue.
Apr 12th, 2006 · Officer Dan Maher of the New York City Police Department spent a year helping to train an Iraqi police force. In the second of a two-part series by producer Marianne McCune of member station WNYC, he talks about how hard it is to adjust to life back on the job in New York.
Apr 11th, 2006 · Officer Dan Maher of the New York City Police Department recently spent a year helping to train a police force in Iraq, and took along a tape recorder to capture his thoughts about the experience. Producer Marianne McCune of member station WNYC profiles Maher as he looks back on his time in Iraq.
Apr 1st, 2005 · Edward Conlon's memoir, Blue Blood (now out in paperback) begins with his first days on the street as a cop and goes back three generations. His great-grandfather was a an "officer of dubious integrity" during the Tammany-era NYPD. Conlon also wrote the Cop Diary columns in The New Yorker, and is a graduate of Harvard. This interview was originally broadcast on April 14, 2004.