Josmar Trujillo, Author at City Limits

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Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

ByJosmar Trujillo 16 minRead time

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May 2016

Opinion

No Backspace: NYPD Raids Won’t Solve NYCHA’s Violence Problem

The huge gang raid last week made big headlines. But when the dust settles, it’ll do little to make residents safer while raising questions about how fair it is to…

ByJosmar Trujillo 10 minRead time

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Mar 2016

Opinion

No Backspace: The Public Relations of Counterterrorism

Ted Cruz’s Islamophobia is easy to reject. But New Yorkers should also be concerned about their city’s demand for more counter-terrorism funding from the federal government.

ByJosmar Trujillo 8 minRead time

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Feb 2016

Opinion

No Backspace:
Want Real NYPD Reform? Cut its $4.9 Billion Budget

An activist argues that reforms—those recently passed or currently considered—will never really end the harm that Broken Windows policing does to communities of color. What would work is to make…

ByJosmar Trujillo 8 minRead time

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Jan 2016

Opinion

No Backspace:
Doubts on De Blasio’s Gun Courts

The program would handle gun cases to serve one basic underlying purpose: to speed up gun convictions. Many, however, might not equate “fast tracking” with justice or due process.

ByJosmar Trujillo 5 minRead time

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Jan 2016

Opinion

Commissioner Clash: Bratton, Kelly and Reality in Over-Policed NYC

Op-ed: The rivalry between the current and former heads of the NYPD is well documented, but ultimately trivial to the real issues with policing.

ByJosmar Trujillo 7 minRead time

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Dec 2015

Opinion

Op-Ed: Beaten Back By Conservative Critics, is De Blasio now Joining Them?

NYCHA is bringing back the “Not Wanted” list, more cops are being assigned to address street homelessness and—in the wake of a cop’s death—the mayor is faulting criminal courts…

ByJosmar Trujillo 7 minRead time

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Nov 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Millions for Programs Sit in Bank Amid Youth Tensions in Harlem

Advocates contend that a high-profile killing and police raid at the Grant and Manhattanville Houses reflect a need for programming for kids, and wonder why a multimillion-dollar fund has not…

ByJosmar Trujillo 12 minRead time

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Aug 2015

Opinion

Op-ed: Broken Windows, Topless Ladies and the New Times Square

The controversy involving a pioneering pedestrian plaza in a neighborhood famously transformed by quality-of-life policing is a clash between two dominant ideas in modern New York: One, that sanitized spaces…

ByJosmar Trujillo 4 minRead time

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Jun 2015

Opinion

Op-Ed: Fight Over NYC School Sports is About More Than Playing Time

Students who have protested against the lack of sports at small high schools have raised two important issues. One is about sports, the author argues. The other is about whether…

ByJosmar Trujillo 15 minRead time

Josmar Trujillo

Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

No Backspace: NYPD Raids Won’t Solve NYCHA’s Violence Problem

No Backspace: The Public Relations of Counterterrorism

No Backspace:
Want Real NYPD Reform? Cut its $4.9 Billion Budget

No Backspace:
Doubts on De Blasio’s Gun Courts

Commissioner Clash: Bratton, Kelly and Reality in Over-Policed NYC

Op-Ed: Beaten Back By Conservative Critics, is De Blasio now Joining Them?

Millions for Programs Sit in Bank Amid Youth Tensions in Harlem

Op-ed: Broken Windows, Topless Ladies and the New Times Square

Op-Ed: Fight Over NYC School Sports is About More Than Playing Time

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