Topic: New York City Police Department

New Technology Helps Police Take a Byte Out of Crime

Last week, a pedestrian walking through Times Square in New York stumbled upon the monthly Critical Mass demonstration, where legions of cyclists take to the streets en masse to raise awareness about transportation alternatives. ...READ»

Panel Paralysis

So here's a question to mull during Ad Week in New York: why is the ad industry -- which is obsessed with the idea of building brands, consumed with engaging the consumer, preoccupied with massaging the message -- so often so ...READ»

NYPD Blue Goes Green with Hybrid Cars

The next time you get arrested in New York City, you might find yourself in a brand new NYPD hybrid vehicle. The police department is getting ready to deploy 40 Nissan Altima hybrids in the next two weeks. While some NYC cops ...READ»

Wikileaks Replaying 9/11 Via Hacked Pager Messages

Wikileaks is currently replaying the events of 9-11-2001 in a very unexpected way: It's releasing in roughly real-time chunks over 500,000 hacked pager messages that were transmitted that day. As a data source its chilling but ...READ»

Icons on Parade

OK, I admit, I was secretly hoping that the New York advertising community would pull off some outrageous stunt -- maybe bringing back the giant Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from "Ghostbusters" or staging a smackdown between the ...READ»

His People Are as Good as Gold

How Bill Daddio strives to build the nation's best police department.READ»

Economic Crisis Transforming the "All or Nothing" Work+Life Mindset

Listen to Cali on Wed 11/19 at 4:00 pm ET talk with Maggie Mistal about Work+Life Fit in a Recession on Sirius Radio's Martha Stewart Network!  "Making a Living with Maggie" inspires, educates and entertains listeners so that they ...READ»

Gold Gun? Lego Chair? Droog Store Opens in the U.S.!

If you’ve been pining after Tejo Remy’s drunken chest of drawers--with its secret compartment containing a gold gun, a line of cocaine, and a diamond ring--but can’t tear yourself away from the plunging Nasdaq to get to ...READ»

HEAT WAVE: Castle’s Best-Selling Strategy

By blurring the barrier between fiction and reality, the execs behind Castle have created a very real instant New York Times Best Seller.READ»

Add Your Voice

Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»

Feedback

Cradle to Cradle Our November 2008 story about green architect William McDonough ("The Mortal Messiah") hit a nerve. "Why pick on him?" one irate reader wrote. "He deserves our thanks, not our scrutiny." Many other emails and ...READ»

Ray Ozzie: Perspective

Ray Ozzie founded Groove Networks in October 1997. Previously, Ozzie was a founder and president of Iris Associates, where he created and led the development of Lotus Notes. Prior to Iris, he was instrumental in the development of ...READ»

Lojack for Laptops

Companies lose billions of dollars a year in hardware and data. Here's how the good guys try to get the stuff back.READ»

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The Gucci Killers

Shanghai Tang has learned from its past mistakes--and now it's gunning to become China's first great luxury brand. Forget about cheap socks and DVD players. This is the next battlefield for global competition.READ»

Big Brother, Where Art Thou?

Security executive Jim Miller argues that a national ID card would help the United States combat terrorism, end wasteful government redundancies, and streamline helter-skelter state and national agencies. So where are our personal bar codes and biometric identifiers? Will the United States institute national IDs?READ»

Terrorists Strike Fast... Interpol has to Move Faster... Ron Noble is on the Case

A profile of far-reaching change with life-and-death consequencesREAD»