An attorney for Lt. Quathisha Epps fired off a letter to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch demanding his client be reinstated.
The 44-year-old cop, who worked in Queens, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 7:20 p.m. on a residential block in Flushing, police and sources said.
The shake-ups among top NYPD leadership continued Saturday as Commissioner Jessica Tisch removed the head of the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. The ousting of Chief of Internal Affairs Miguel Iglesias came just one day after Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey submitted his resignation before being accused of trading substantial overtime approvals for sexual favors.
The top uniformed police officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate in exchange for opportunities to earn extra pay.
NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey has resigned following a bombshell allegation of sexual misconduct on the job.
The NYPD does not disseminate arrest photos unless we are attempting to locate an individual,” the department told VERIFY. Inconsistencies in the image point to AI.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch sent a not-so-subtle message Monday that she won’t accept anything less than “ethical leadership” on the heels of sex harassment allegations emerging against the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer.
The New York Police Department's top uniformed officer, known as the Chief of Department, abruptly resigned Saturday amid allegations he demanded sexual favors from a subordinate.
The woman was sleeping on a train car in Brooklyn on Sunday morning when a man approached her, lit her aflame and ran, police said.
Police arrested a man who allegedly lit a sleeping homeless woman on fire in a Brooklyn subway car Sunday morning, then watched calmly as she burned to death, NYPD officials said. Chilling video obtained by the Daily News shows the woman standing near the door of a stopped subway car at the Coney-Island-Stillwell Ave.
Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with the death of a woman who died after being set on fire in a New York City subway train a day earlier.