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Brooklyn, NY - A New York City police officer was taken into custody early Tuesday morning after being accused of theft while on duty in East Flatbush, officials said. At approximately 3:28 a.m., authorities arrested 26-year-old David Carrasco, an NYPD officer assigned to the department, within the 67th Precinct. He has been charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Walk down the street and you're likelyto be recorded by one of thousandsof security cameras, some belongingto the New York Police Department,others just connected or available to the department's databases. Drive into the city and traffic cameraswill automatically photograph your car, capturing your vehicle's license plate, make, model, color, distinctive markings and even passengers. Post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok and the N.Y.P.D. can scrape and store your messages, capturing your thoughts, plans, political statements and friend groups.

As a lifelong New Yorker, I am revolted by the idea of the militarization of our streets, Tisch said. As long as I have the honor of serving as the Police Commissioner of the city of New York, I will be very clear with anyone, with all of you, with the Attorney General, with whoever wants to talk to me about it, about the fact that the NYPD: We've got this, we don't need, or want the federal government's help here in that way.

A double stabbing in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills neighborhood early Friday left a 30-year-old man dead and another man hospitalized, police said. Officers from the 102nd Precinct in Queens responded just before 1 a.m. to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after two men arrived there by private transportation with stab wounds, according to the NYPD. A 30-year-old man who had been stabbed in the armpit was later pronounced dead, police said.

BROOKLYN, NY - A thief made off with hundreds of dollars in cash and a wallet loaded with credit cards after snatching a 66-year-old man's coat inside a Sheepshead Bay mosque Thursday evening, police said. The brazen theft happened around 7:40 p.m. at the Islamic center located at 2812 Voorhies Avenue, where the unidentified suspect entered the mosque and grabbed the unattended coat before fleeing in an unknown direction. The victim's wallet inside the coat contained $700 in cash, six credit cards, and other personal items, officials said.

The violent arrest shocked bystanders, who said the NYPD cops completely overreacted to a low-level cycling offense. 'They were just fucking brutalizing the poor kid. Three cops to one person, the way they picked him up was crazy,' said Jesus, who works nearby and declined to share his last name. The heated incident comes as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has escalated enforcement against people on bikes and e-bikes this year by increasing low-level offenses to criminal summonses.

According to Dr. Katherine McKenzie, a trauma surgeon at Jamaica Hospital, Fisher suffered four gunshot wounds altogether. He had gunshot wounds to his left leg that injured his tibia bone, which is the main bone in your lower leg, between your knee and your ankle that provides support to that side of the body. He had injuries to his right wrist, Dr. McKenzie said. He sustained four gunshot wounds, two of them were through and through.

Six people are wanted in connection with a robbery last month in Brooklyn in which a 50-year-old man was beaten with an iron stick and had about $800 stolen, the NYPD said Thursday. The incident occurred on Friday, July 4, at approximately 4:30 a.m. in front of 827 59th Street, a residential building on the border of Borough Park and Sunset Park.

The men initially attempted to make their way into the residence through the front door but found it locked, the NYPD said. With the help of a neighbor, the officers were able to mount a fence and gain access to the yard of the burning home. Bodycam video of the rescue posted to the NYPD's Facebook page shows the officers using a chair to climb the fence.

Police are asking New Yorkers for help identifying skeletal remains found along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills area earlier this month. Department of Transportation workers found the human remains off a grassy area near the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound Exit 1 on Aug. 6, according to the NYPD. Police described the victim as female, possibly Black or Hispanic and approximately 20 to 30 years of age.

Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly stole a wallet from an R train rider in Woodside late last month. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 30, inside the Broadway/Northern Boulevard subway station just before 3 p.m., when the 22-year-old victim dropped his wallet while passing through the turnstiles. A much older stranger stooped down, grabbed the wallet and fled on foot in an unknown direction, police said.

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A man exposed himself in front of straphangers aboard a Brooklyn train on Friday, according to police. Bystanders were riding a southbound 2 train when the incident occurred.

The off-duty cop was standing outside of a residential building when he was ambushed by two men riding mopeds. One suspect drew a firearm and was shot by the cop.