Like many marriages, the union between the city and its new police chief is going through a rocky patch just after the honeymoon, and the relationship’s future is not clear. The November swearing-in ceremony of the chief, Dean Esserman, was held in the s

LONDON — When David Willetts, the minister for higher education in Britain, announced this month that the government was “inviting proposals for a new type of university with a focus on science and technology and on postgraduates,” a New Yorker could be

William J Bratton is, by all professional accounts, one of the most accomplished police officers in the world. His record for taming gangs in New York and Los Angeles is beyond doubt. But in the UK, we find it hard to like him. That's not to say nobody d

Louise Casey BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Old walls became part of the promenade. SKEPTICS have suggested that New York’s two-decade decline in major crime simply reflects a national pattern. Franklin E. Zimring, a Berkeley Law criminologist, says they’re dead wrong

When campus police at the University of California, Davis, pepper-sprayed peaceful student protesters at point-blank range during an Occupy Wall Street rally on Nov. 18, shocking video of the unprovoked attack prompted national outrage—and demands for th

Ruby Washington/The New York Times; Jin Lee/Bloomberg News; Richard Perry/The New York Times Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; William C. Thompson Jr. , center, the former comptroller; and Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, appear to be the