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Bahar Ostadan

Articles by Bahar Ostadan


Bahar Ostadan covers the NYPD and public safety. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or message Bahar on Signal at 646-740-7335.

Staff at the Brooklyn jail found contraband items stuffed into shopping bags.


The new slogan is “Fighting crime, protecting the public.”


Experts say you have a First Amendment right to film the NYPD in public, as long as you don’t interfere with what they’re doing or break the law.


Police said the man was holding a knife to his father's throat when they shot him.


The homicide suspect was killed during a confrontation with New York City and Woodbridge Township police, according to the New Jersey attorney general’s office.


The 27-year-old was charged with several counts of weapons possession and obscuring his license plate.


Former juvenile detainees filed lawsuits against the city on Tuesday claiming they were sexually abused as children by staffers and other detainees.


New Jersey prosecutors say Hieu Tran, 27, shot a man in with his department-issued gun.


They're still trying to figure out where the reptile came from.


Police say they solve 76% of murders in Brooklyn. The “clearance rate” for murders on Staten Island is closer to 100%.


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