Complex News' Izzy Izzo traces the vest's journey from Prodigy's 1995 "Survival of the Fittest" video to Pop Smoke's Brooklyn Drill era.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, we look back on Spike Lee's red Yankees New Era fitted hat from 1996 that started it all.

This federal grant provides new ballistic vests for officers at the department.

A NYPD detective who was wounded as a bullet lodged in his bulletproof vest in a clash with a teenage gunman in Brooklyn was hit by “friendly fire,” from one of his fellow officers, an internal ...

“I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children of what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one,” she said.

Using a personal anecdote to sway House members, Barrett said she was forced to tell her children why she arrived home with a ...

Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione sparked a circus in Manhattan court — appearing in a bulletproof vest and drawing a crowd of gaga female admirers — as a judge denied his attempt to delay his murder ...

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Det. Robert Karroll, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was shot near Nostrand Ave. and St. John’s Place in Crown Heights about 4:10 a.m. Sunday.