Critics of the NYPD’s hiring and promotion practices acknowledge the department’s success in diversifying the rank and file — but question the NYPD’s devotion to diversity in the upper ranks.

Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell reshuffled the NYPD’s higher ranks Friday as she filled vacancies left behind by the departure of Chief of Department Kenneth Corey and the heads of three … ...

New York Police Department ranks are shrinking to their thinnest in nearly a decade amid plummeting morale linked to anti-cop protests, even as crime in the nation's largest city is spiking.

The NYPD will now have to interview at least one candidate from an “underrepresented” race for any open position in its upper ranks, according to a new executive order signed by Mayor Bill de ...

In a first, the nation's largest police department on Wednesday selected a black chief for its detectives squad, bringing diversity to a key leadership position as bail reform and other challenges ...

For the first time since the NYPD was formed 179 years ago, there are more Hispanics in the rank of police officer — the initial rank when becoming a cop — than any other demographic group ...

Immigrant NYPD officers say opportunity to serve should be embraced Part 2 It was 1982, and Ramos was only six months old when his parents paid the retired colonel $700 to smuggle them in a pickup ...