Shootout with police leaves 1 dead, 1 in custody; narcotics operation in Manhattan: sources >INWOOD, Manhattan (WABC) -- One person is dead and another is in police custody after a narcotics operation in Manhattan ended in a shootout with law enforcement.

>Officials say the incident happened around 8:40 p.m. in the Inwood section.

>An undercover joint narcotics operation between federal partners and the NYPD turned fatal when law enforcement tried to arrest a suspect.

>Sources say two suspects fired at police as they were moving the investigation into the first floor of an apartment building.

>Gunshots were exchanged between both law enforcement and the two suspects.

>One suspect was killed as the second suspect tried to barricade himself inside the apartment.

>No members of law enforcement were injured during this incident and the second suspect was eventually taken into custody.

>Two guns, one belonging to each of the suspects, was recovered at the scene. Charges against the suspect in police custody are pending.

Attempted Rape in Riverside Park Thwarted by Witnesses; Suspect Arrested

>A woman was the victim of an attempted rape Tuesday at around 5:15pm in Riverside Park near West 87th Street. Members of the public witnessed the attack and called 911, resulting in the arrest of a suspect.

>Three women were found stabbed to death in a Queens home Friday, police said.

>The women, ages 26, 46 and 57, were discovered in a Springfield Gardens residence on 182nd Street near 146th Drive by a home health aide around 10:40 a.m., according to police and law enforcement sources.

>One of the women was bedridden, the sources said.

>The victims were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

>Cops are searching for a relative of at least one of the victims, who is believed to have fled the location around 5 a.m. and is considered a suspect in connection with the slayings, sources said.  

You are defending the violent assault and robbery of a 12 year old girl. How progressive of you.

Brooklyn food vendor attacked after denying assaulter free food: NYPD >A 59-year-old food vendor in Brooklyn was assaulted after refusing an assailant’s demand for free food last Wednesday, police said.

>The food vendor was punched multiple times in the face on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Plaza Street West, according to the NYPD. The suspect then damaged a window to the food cart and stole a tip jar from the victim, police said.

Former high school basketball player killed in Bronx drive-by shooting >To his family and friends, Jayden Goodridge could always be counted on to flash his big smile and even bigger personality.

>But the 21-year-old tragically became the latest victim of a senseless act of gun violence in a drive-by shooting across the street from the basketball courts at St. Mary’s Park in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx.

>Someone riding an electric bike fired off several shots at around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, hitting Goodridge and his friend as they both walked down the street, police said.

>The friend, who is also 21 years old, survived his injuries. But Goodridge was hit in the stomach and later died at a hospital.

>Goodridge had no criminal record, and add there is no reason to believe he was the intended target, police said. The suspect is still on the loose.

Bronx businesses targeted by racist, antisemitic letters; police investigating

NYPD Arrests Men Who Shot Brooklyn Jews with Gel Gun

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SiLeNcE Is ViOlEnCe!!!!!! 🤪

> This guy never met a pocket he didn’t want to pick,” a disgusted law enforcement source said.

> The sticky-fingered suspect has lodged 66 arrests in all and currently has three open cases tied to a slew of Manhattan pickpocket busts — in which he was released without bail each time.

> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.

> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes. The 2019 state bail-reform measures, viewed as excessively lenient by critics, changed the landscape of the criminal-justice system in the Empire State.

> The measure eliminated bail for misdemeanors and many felony changes, stripping judges of discretion to order defendants held, including repeat offenders.

> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.

> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes.

> The “harm on harm” statute is one of the few tools prosecutors still have to argue for bail in cases involving non-bail-eligible offenses — but it’s a remedy not typically granted.

>A career criminal was repeatedly busted and released again in Manhattan in the past month — allegedly committing one of his crimes right behind the courthouse less than an hour after being freed, records show.

> Darin Mickens, 55, is so prolific at his illicit pickpocketing craft that he was once featured in the NYPD’s “Nifty 50” deck of cards of the Big Apple’s biggest subway-crime recidivists, police sources said.

In this case they were mutiple times https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/nycs-brazen-nifty-50-pickpocket-suspect-still-free/

> The city is using an $18.5 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency with funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to purchase 51 electric school buses.

How will the electricity generated to power these electric school busses? Will the batteries in these electric school busses be ethically sourced? What is the estimated net environmental impact of electric school bus vs a standard diesel schoolbus over the lifetime operation of the veichle?

the iPhone snatchers are let free too In NYC

Please dear leader tell us what is and isn't a "crime".

So, some "crimes" are more equal than others. Got it Napoleon. 🤫🤐

Theft of wages is a "crime". I guess some "crimes" are more equal than others.

This is a "crime" post why is it not removed?