When Donald Trump villainizes immigrants as criminals, most of us recognize the President’s sweeping generalizations as not only racist, but dangerous. Will there be “resistance” protests against the mayor’s musings?
Amid a struggle for Puerto Rican independence that has spanned three centuries, a police commissioner’s decision not to march in the annual parade is small potatoes.
Imagine a world where a federal judge has to tell civil liberties lawyers that they’ve conceded too much to the NYPD. Don’t imagine it. You’re living in it.
This op-ed argues: ‘With Trumpmageddon looming, undocumented immigrants may have very learned the hard way that government, whether local or federal, liberal or conservative, may never be able provide them…
In the days after the killing of a policeman last year, Keith Hughes was charged with being part of a gun-trafficking ring. But his claims, and the way courts handled…
Not everyone in the East Harlem neighborhood feels they were part of crafting the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, which welcomes development that many distrust.
The mayor tabs a civil-rights lawyer to head the Civilian Complaint Review Board. The police unions cry out. The sequence suggests bold change is afoot. The record suggests otherwise, this…
