Updated Tuesday, 3 p.m. EST

The NYPD has taken into custody a suspect believed to have been involved in last week's atrocious razor blade attack. Details follow. 

A homophobic Muslim NYPD applicant who admitted on his 2009 application that he believes the LGBT should be arrested for existing is suing the department over discrimination. 

Justin Adkins was among the near-1,000 who were controversially arrested on Saturday during an Occupy Wall Street protest that took place on the Brooklyn Bridge. But the controversy of Justin's arrest continued well after he was placed in plastic hand cuffs...

The Cop and the Kid is a story that Manhattan HIV doctor Frank Spinelli (and one-time Instinct contributor) secretly knew that once fully told, would be warming no one's heart. Find out why after the jump.

The New York Daily News is reporting that the NYPD are looking for Justin Waller, the boyfriend of John Lea, who was found murdered in his home yesterday in Hell's Kitchen.

More information can be found in the original article here.

On Saturday morning, New York City radio host Blake Hayes (pictured) and a friend were victims of an anti-gay assault in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood. The attack itself is deplorable, but Hayes' report of the NYPD's inaction is just as gut-wrenching.

"The cops -- the NYPD -- did NOTHING.  They wouldn't even take the guy's information so we could file a claim later, or even run the plates of the car whose body was dented from him throwing my friend into it.  'They're NJ plates, we can't do anything,'" Blake wrote in a blog post over the weekend.

But there is good news to report. Today Instinct heard from New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who assures us that the New York City Police Commissioner will investigate the reports...