Is the New York Police Department in the process of trading in their big American sedans and SUVs for the smaller, lighter, more drift-acular Scion FR-S? In a word: No. 

Although we don't care to see them in our rearview mirrors with their lights flashing, we at Jalopnik are generally fans of the police car. They're just like regular cars, except tougher and built for fightin' crime.

Traffic in New York sucks, but here's one cop making it easier to get through. He sees a guy on a motorcycle stuck in a jam, and then guides him past the congestion on the curb.

Julien Chabbott, the confirmed poser boyfriend of Stephanie Pratt who ran over a cop's foot in his Ferrari 458 Spider this month, may have more ass-kicking in his future. The New York Post reports the cop will sue him for $10 million.

Because July 4th falls on a Wedneday, a lot of Americans will spend a five-day weekend traveling and drinking. It's pretty common to misplace a wallet or a purse on that kind of vacation. And getting on a return flight without a valid ID, as you might imagine, is not easy. But it can be done. Here's how to work it with …

The New York Police Department's self-professed "car geek" usually spends his days tracking stolen vehicles and the occasional carjacking, but his skills at identifying models based on a hubcap led to the arrest of an 8-year-old's killer.

Ever since NYPD's infamous ticket-fixing scandal (aka guy-who-knows-a-guy-gate) earlier this year, NY cops have been taking their ticket-issuing down a notch. They've reportedly issued 32% fewer traffic tickets last week compared to the same period a year ago

Some genius thought he'd found the perfect place to park his BMW 5-Series to avoid the long tow arm of the NYPD's parking enforcement. He was wrong.

We didn't call the photo of the NYPD searching a sliver Lamborghini Murciélago "racial profiling" because we don't know for sure what's going on in the photo.

Here's a tip for any New Jersey residents planning to drive their expensive Lamborghini Murciélago to New York for next year's Puerto Rican Day Parade: don't do it unless you like a couple of plainclothes policemen deeply probing your car.