Academy recruits poised to join NYPD
Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy | Police line up outside the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem. (Dec. 22, 2010)
One soon-to-be NYPD cop - the police academy class valedictorian and the fourth generation in his family to pursue law enforcement - grew up in Port Jefferson Station as an avid athlete.
Another, a native of the West Indies, decided to join the force after growing up in a country where she watched criminals terrorize innocent citizens with impunity. Another was inspired at the age of 10 by...
