The New York City Police Foundation was established in 1971 by business and civic leaders as a nonprofit tax-exempt charity that could raise money to spend on projects supporting
NYPD
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
reform and modernization efforts as well as helping improve its relationship with the broader
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
community.
The NYCPF was the first municipal foundation of its type in the country.
The NYCPF public-private partnership provides the
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
with the means to launch experimental programs. The Foundation supported Commissioner
Raymond W. Kelly
Raymond Walter Kelly (born September 4, 1941) is the longest serving Commissioner in the history of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the first man to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. According to its website, Kelly †...
's efforts to establish the
Real Time Crime Center
A real-time crime center (RTCC) is a centralized technology utilized by law enforcement and emergency first responders. During early adoption, the primary purpose of RTCC was to give field officers and detectives instant information to help identi ...
.
Since its founding, the NYCPF has raised more than $120 million on behalf of the NYPD from the city’s power elite.
[ However, critics have claimed that the NYPD has been unduly influenced by a $4.6 million gift from ]JP Morgan
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the wo ...
, via the New York City Police Foundation, that funded patrol car laptops as well as security monitoring devices.[
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References
External links
NYCPF official site
* Local Police Foundations in the U.S.
New York City Police Department
Organizations based in New York City
1971 establishments in New York City
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