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The case offers a window into the lengthy, complex process that follows killings by police

Competition from the private sector and the government’s balky hiring practices have prompted thousands to flee city government.

Large-scale departures started in 2020. There are now 1,200 vacant positions.

Mayor says splitting up will boost police presence and rider confidence

New York City police officers are leaving the force en masse, driven out by low salaries, anti-cop sentiment and poor benefits, according to the police union

Revealed preference is when a person’s observed actions reveal more about their preferences than what a person might profess to prefer.

Colinford Mattis, 35, and Urooj Rahman, 33, withdrew earlier guilty pleas to charges of unlawfully possessing Molotov cocktails. It is unclear if the van above is the same they torched.

Charges against C Blu, the 16-year-old rapper from the Bronx who was arrested in January after an altercation during his arrest which led to the gun he was carrying going off and hitting an NYPD officer, have been dropped. The Law Department confirmed the decision last Friday, saying the case "cannot be prosecuted".

Camrin Williams was out on probation from a 2020 gun possession case when he got into a scuffle with police in January and allegedly shot NYPD officer Kaseem Pennant.

Charges have been dropped against C Blu, the 16-year-old Bronx rapper who in January was arrested for allegedly shooting a police officer during an altercation.