DEA in the Press

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The NYPD’s Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA) delivered some appreciation to health care workers at ProHEALTH Circle urgent care in Willowbrook Wednesday afternoon by providing a lunch […]

The union representing NYPD detectives wants to sue anyone who puts their members at risk of catching coronavirus by violating social distancing rules, the group said Tuesday. “To unnecessarily put […]

Paul DiGiacomo of the Detectives’ Endowment Association told 1010 WINS: “I think it’s disgusting what happened today. And that poor police officer could have been hit by a train or […]

On Friday, April 17, 2020, Det. Jack Polimeni, who died of the Coronavirus, was laid to rest. Family, colleagues, and the Police Department had to postpone usual wake and burial […]

DEA President Paul DiGiacomo’s letter to Queens Judge Kenneth Holder weighed in on the Judge’s decision to deny release to the second perpetrator complicit in the death of Det. Brian […]

Christopher Ransom, one of the two perpetrators responsible for the death of Det. Brian Simonson, is making a bid for release from prison. Read about it in the April 14, […]

Prison release was denied for Jagger Freeman, one of the two perpetrators responsible for the death of Det. Brian Simonsen, as chronicled in the April 14, 2020 issue of the […]

The DEA President spoke with John Catsimitidis on Easter Sunday morning about the dangers Detectives face on the front lines of the Coronavirus pandemic. Listen here.  

I met 90-year-old Mollie Gustine in early March, at the Queens nursing home where she was temporarily living recovering from an illness. I was doing a story about the retired […]

(CNN) As coronavirus ravages the city, New York Police Department detectives are responding to a significant rise in calls to homes where a death is reported, an increase one detective […]