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Mayor Bill de Blasio Delivers Remarks at NYPD Graduation Ceremony. Madison Square Garden, New York. Monday, December 29, 2014.

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2014. What a year! Nationally, there were a lot of cheers and an equal amount of jeers in the headlines. All in all, however, optimism won out, as we made it through the ups and downs, smarter, more aware and in many ways stronger than ever.

Photo: sacbee.com The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty jumped by 24 percent this year, the Associated Press writes.

Celebrating New Years Eve can be stressful. Whether from the pressure of showing out-of-town friends a good time, to picking the right spot to ring it in.

New York Ciy Mayor Bill de Blasio (C) and wife Chirlane McCray walk out of slain NYPD officer Rafael Ramos' funeral service at Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City announced on Mo

Photos of the NYPD Officers Weinjen Liu (left) and Rafael Ramos are displayed at the Bed-Stuy memorial near where they were killed Saturday.

Photo: rt.com With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers in Bed-Stuy last week, many officers have started to not respond to minor crimes claiming they are "scared," the Post reports. "I'm not writing any summonses.

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An elderly Crown Heights man named Moshe Kanofsky, who suffers from light dementia and memory loss, has been missing since last Thursday, December 18. Councilman David G.