The New York City Police Riot of 1857, known at the time as the Great Police Riot, was a conflict which occurred in front of New York City Hall between...
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The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...
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The New York City Police Commissioner is the head of the New York City Police Department and presiding member of the Board of Commissioners. The commissioner...
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New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City...
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The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of...
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and nativists 1857 – New York City Police Riot occurred June 16 between the New York Municipal Police and the Metropolitan Police over the Mayor's appointment...
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) originates in the Government of New York City attempts to control rising crime in early- to mid-19th-century...
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Hall, an institution that dominated the city throughout this period. Reforms led to the New York City Police Riot of June 1857. There was chaos during the...
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The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American...
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in 1812. The New York City Police riot occurred in front of New York City Hall between the recently dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly...
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A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining...
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1857 – New York City Police Riot, June 16, New York City 1857 – Dead Rabbits Riot, July 4–5, New York City 1858 – Know-Nothing Riot 1858, New Orleans...
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Association Riot, also known as the City Hall Riot, was a rally organized and sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA)...
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and Irish Catholics, along with the New York City Police Department and the New York State National Guard. The riot caused the deaths of over 60 civilians...
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Throughout the history of the New York City Police Department, numerous instances of corruption, misconduct, and other allegations of such, have occurred...
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or together against the wealthy who controlled the city's police and the state militia. The riot resulted in the largest number of civilian casualties...
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The 1967 New York City riot was one of many riots that occurred during the long, hot summer of 1967. The riot began after an off-duty police officer,...
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and Bull Run. New York: Harcourt, 2006. ISBN 978-0-15-603064-9. Harry Ezratty, Baltimore in the Civil War: The Pratt Street Riot and a City Occupied, Charleston...
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the New York City Police Department (NYPD), destroyed property, and looted stores. Several rioters were severely beaten by NYPD officers. The riots and...
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Cenat was taken into police custody by the New York City Police Department during the riot and was charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly...
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Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents...
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Park riot occurred on August 6–7, 1988 in Tompkins Square Park, located in the East Village and Alphabet City neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. Groups...
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Stonewall Inn and attracted a crowd that was incited to riot. Tensions between New York City police and gay residents of Greenwich Village erupted into more...
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into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857;...
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1863 New York City draft riots during the American Civil War, and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later. The riot was prominently...
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The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing...
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city marshals, thirty-one constables, and fifty-one police officers. The New York City draft riots in July 1863 were violent disturbances in New York...
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New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the...
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A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy...
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The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) is the largest police union representing police officers of the New York City Police Department...
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