NYPD BLUES

The thin blue line got a little bit thinner last weekend when dozens of New York City police officers went on a drunken rampage while attending ceremonies in Washington, D.C., honoring officers killed in the line of duty. As many as 100 of New York's finest reportedly groped female hotel guests, stole license plates or fired their weapons in the air. (One hotel says some officers stripped nude, poured beer down a lobby escalator and took turns sliding down.) A mortified Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at an impromptu Manhattan press conference today: "To take an event that is designed to honor the memory of police officers who have given their lives and desecrate it, I can't imagine what they were thinking." New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said any guilty officers may be fired.