Police unions are livid and demanding New York City’s Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot resign or be fired after she reportedly gave an emphatic rejection when the NYPD sought more face […]
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Policing a Changed City, NYPD Adjusts to a Changed Mission
May 11, 2020The Detectives’ Endowment Association, which last month threatened legal action against people who put Detectives at risk of contracting the coronavirus, also called on the city to scale back police’s […]
Read MoreWNBC News Profiles the Abear Family
May 7, 2020On May 6, 2020, WNBC’s local New York City television news broadcast this lovely story about the widow and children of active Det. Raymond Abear of Queens Special Victims Squad […]
Read MoreAdvocates demand full benefits for city workers killed by coronavirus
May 4, 2020Advocates for essential city workers are demanding the municipal employees killed by the coronavirus receive full, line-of-duty death benefits — even if it’s unclear whether they contracted the contagion on […]
Read MoreCoronavirus poses a tough question: Did NYC essential workers die in the line of duty?
May 4, 2020“There is no difference between being shot in the line of duty and dying from this coronavirus,” Paul DiGiacomo, the union president, said. As he spoke, two other detectives lay […]
Read MoreTwo NYPD Detectives Mourned in Somber, Socially-Distant Funerals
April 26, 2020Two NYPD detectives who succumbed to complications from COVID-19 were given solemn sendoffs Saturday — with police, friends and loved ones all donning protective masks — in what has become […]
Read MoreThe ‘invisible bullet’: Mounting calls for Coronavirus bodies endangering detectives
April 26, 2020STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As the coronavirus claims lives at a staggering rate and medical officials change how they respond to emergencies during the pandemic, the number of “dead on […]
Read MoreNYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association delivers lunch to Willowbrook urgent care
April 22, 2020STATEN 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 […]
Read MoreNYPD Detectives Union Wants to Sue those who Violate Coronavirus Social Distancing Rules
April 22, 2020The 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 […]
Read MoreDEA President Speaks to 1010 WINS about Video Showing NYPD Officer Being Kicked onto Subway Tracks
April 18, 2020Paul 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 […]
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