Jarrett Murphy
Michelle de la Uz in her office at the Fifth Avenue Committee in Gowanus.
Many of the defining policy storylines of today’s New York are, in one or more ways, on the plate of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director, who is also on the City Planning Commission.
The consensus that the criminal justice system needs some kind of reform is shared across much of the political spectrum. But the reform push usually focuses on ‘non-violent’ offenders. Does that make sense?
The New York City Mission Society has been on the frontlines of the war on poverty for more than 200 years.
The latest data shows that the city has accomplished much already – but that more needs to be done to ensure that everyone who wishes to call our great city home can afford to do so.
‘Just like the police, the true allegiance of prosecutors is to the law-enforcement system itself, one where the status quo has become indefensible.’
Some advocates are now focused on the plan’s implementation, some on making it better and others on suing the city.
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