Police Bureau Chief

Rocco Parascandola

Rocco Parascandola covers the NYPD and criminal justice issues for the New York Daily News, where he has been Police Bureau Chief since 2009. He has won various journalism awards in his 32-year career, which includes stints at New York Newsday and the New York Post. He is the author of "Gunz and God: The Life of an NYPD Undercover."

New York police officers move in on the scene of a shooting at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in New York. A man was shot by police after shots rang out at the end of a Christmas choral concert on the steps of the Manhattan cathedral Sunday afternoon. It's unclear if the gunman was killed or if any others were injured. The shooting happened just before 4 p.m. at the church which is the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and seat of its bishop.

Man firing pistols at end of Christmas concert killed by police in front of Manhattan cathedral

December 14, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

A video posted to Facebook captured the deadly confrontation between police and an apparently suicidal, double-pistol waving gunman outside the famed Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Sunday afternoon....

Bala perdida se cobra la vida de una madre latina

September 30, 2020 at 5:17 p.m.

Una madre de tres hijos de Queens, despertada por el ruido nocturno de la calle, miró por la ventana de su apartamento y nunca volvió a la cama. Bertha Arriaga,...

(L-R) Robert Trump, Fred Trump, Donald Trump, Ivana Trump, Elizabeth Trump, Mary Anne Trump and Roy Cohn attend 38th Annual Horatio Alger Awards Dinner on May 10, 1985 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.

Trump visits brother, Robert, at New York hospital

August 15, 2020 at 12:07 a.m.

A worried President Trump paid a visit Friday to his brother, Robert Trump, at a New York hospital after administration officials said the president's youngest brother was "very ill." The...

Gov. Cuomo pulls motorist from car wreck on BQE after attending event in city

January 7, 2020 at 9:50 p.m.

Gov. Cuomo sprang into action Monday as his motorcade passed a pile-up on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The governor, who had just left a Midtown Manhattan event hosted by the Association...

Ric Ocasek of the Cars arrives at the MusiCares Person of the Year event at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles Feb. 6, 2015.

Cars singer Ric Ocasek died of heart disease, natural causes: NYC medical examiner

September 16, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Cars frontman Ric Ocasek died from hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the city's medical examiner said Monday. Pulmonary emphysema was also a contributing factor in the 75-year-old singer's death, the...

Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill lead a group of community activists as they arrive for a press conference at the Brownsville Playground in Brooklyn on Sunday July 28, 2019.

NYPD commissioner vows ‘justice’ in block party shooting that left one dead, 11 wounded

July 29, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

The man killed in a mass shooting at a Brooklyn block party may have been firing back at the gunmen who sprayed him and 11 others with bullets Saturday night,...

Ferry pilot may have been blacked out for half of trip

August 20, 2021 at 12:29 a.m.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that Assistant Capt. Richard Smith may have been blacked out for as much as half of the 25-minute ferry trip from Manhattan to Staten...

Actions of ferry pilots focus of probe into crash

August 20, 2021 at 12:57 a.m.

Investigators want to know why a Staten Island ferry captain lost control moments before Wednesday's deadly crash, and why a second pilot wasn't alongside him to grab the helm of...

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