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Adi Talwar

READ PART I: The Growing Calls to Close Rikers Island

Josmar Trujillo

Agenda 2019

CityViews: For Dems Promising Criminal-Justice Reform, Opposing Trump or the IDC Won’t Be Enough

Josmar Trujillo | November 16, 2018

‘Opening new jails is a down payment ensuring we stay stuck in our old ways. That’s not a price we should be willing to pay.’

broken windows

CampaignViews: Let’s Talk More About the Mayor’s Cruel Take on Panhandling

Josmar Trujillo | July 21, 2017

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?

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CityViews: Police, Politics and the Puerto Rican Day Parade

Josmar Trujillo | May 24, 2017

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.

civil liberties

No Backspace: NY’s Rules for Policing Political Activity Still Need Tightening

Josmar Trujillo | March 17, 2017

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.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

No BackSpace: IDNYC Fiasco Shows Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Trust the City

Josmar Trujillo | January 12, 2017

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 a true sanctuary.’

In Depth

This Man, Busted by the NYPD for Gun Trafficking, Says He’s no Smuggler

Josmar Trujillo | November 30, 2016

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 them, suggest that, sometimes, the city’s anti-gun enforcement effort might sweep up people who aren’t smugglers.

Homepage Featured

Op-Ed: Rejecting the East Harlem ‘Community’ Plan

Josmar Trujillo | November 21, 2016

Not everyone in the East Harlem neighborhood feels they were part of crafting the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, which welcomes development that many distrust.

No Backspace

No BackSpace: Clinton and Trump vs. the Truth—Stop & Frisk Isn’t Over

Josmar Trujillo | October 4, 2016

Stop and frisk in the city isn’t over. But you might not know it if you watched national headlines last week.

Opinion

No BackSpace: The Case for Abolishing the Police

Josmar Trujillo | August 16, 2016

Most New York City activists want to mend the NYPD. But the author and others want to end it instead.

No Backspace

No BackSpace: Civilian Complaint Review Board Staggers On

Josmar Trujillo | July 15, 2016

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 author says.

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