NYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Access to Crime Reports

The NYPD has ordered the city's 77 police precincts to stop giving out any information to the media about crimes taking place in their neighborhoods, cutting off a long-standing source of information for New Yorkers.

Reporters from DNAinfo New York, and other local news sites, experienced the crackdown this week when they were told that access to the precinct’s reports were suddenly revoked.

The move is the latest — and perhaps not the last — taken against the media by outgoing Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.