By Jack Stern New York City’s disgruntled Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry interviewed for the FBI’s Deputy Director position left vacant by Dan Bongino’s departure, according to multiple sources close to the situation. The news comes with Daughtry’s imminent departure looming as the Mamdani administration is set to take over City Hall in […]
By Tom Joyce Every few years, the same argument gets recycled, repackaged, and sold as if it were new. It isdefinitely not new. The recent use of License Plate Reader (LPR) technology in the Brown University and MIThomicide investigations has triggered predictable outrage despite generating a lead that helpedbring a case to a conclusion. The […]
By Tom JoyceI was talking recently with retired NYPD Deputy Chief Mike Marino: a rare police leader whotruly understood the mission. He wasn’t chasing rank or press releases; he was fighting forpeople. Marino told me something I’ve never forgotten: “When you don’t take a report from a victim, you’re re-victimizing them.” He lived that […]
By Tom Joyce I recently heard someone say, “People don’t leave companies; they leave managers.” It’s a popular line in corporate circles. HR folks nod like it’s gospel. But from where I’ve sat with 20+ years in policing and now a second career in corporate America that logic doesn’t translate to law enforcement. It’s actually […]
Written in response to the Nov. 30, 2025 New York Times article on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and police surveillance. By Tom Joyce As someone who spent decades in law enforcement and the last 19 years working inside public- safety technology, the latest New York Times story about Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD’s surveillance systems struck a […]
By Jack Stern In an exclusive interview with The Sal Greco Show, retired NYPD Deputy Chief Winston Faison denied accusations of cronyism and negligence of safety laid out in a NYPost article – along with the subsequent departmental violations that he was charged with following an internal investigation. Faison was alleged to have neglected safety […]
By Pete Forcelli and Tommy Joyce, Ten-Four Tavern In New Jersey, the political class just pulled off one of the most cynical plays we’ve seen in modern government. A leaked phone call allegedly exposing illegal ballot harvesting doesn’t spark outrage or reform; it sparks a bill to make sure no one can ever record such a […]
By John D. Macari Jr The Myth: Cops Leave Because of Politics Let’s set the record straight, NYPD officers are not leaving because they disagree with who the mayor is. If that were the case, the department would have collapsed years ago under Bill de Blasio or now under Eric Adams. The truth is, cops leave when […]
By Jack Stern The best way to win a heckling match against a highly flawed, unpopular, opponent is to attack them directly, as making irrelevant snarky remarks provides ammunition that can backfire. The mainstream media’s baseless ethnically slanderous attacks on New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, have enabled him to establish derogatory oppositionists as […]
By Tom Joyce & Pete Forcelli Presented by The Finest Unfiltered: The Ten-Four Tavern Last night on the Ten-Four Tavern podcast, we spoke with former NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce, whose legendary career spanned decades of major cases and investigative evolution. While the conversation focused on his leadership and investigative experiences, a brief mention of the […]