For the city’s borough-based jail plan, this is a temporary halt, not a permanent rest. And for the community members fighting the plan, there’s still a long way to go.
Across the country, the sudden growth of demands to defund and even abolish the police has taken by surprise not only conservatives and centrists but many progressives as well. Perhaps nowhere have these intra-left debates broken out more publicly than in Western Queens.
Activists representing immigrant rights groups joined Black Lives Matters protestors at City Hall, calling for the city to protect funding for immigration nonprofits.
“I was filled with sadness. I didn’t know what to do,” the street artist told NY Japion. “I looked for a space to create art.”
Two things can be said about the fiscal 2021 budget. One is that it made almost no one happy.
The other is that it did not meaningfully reduce the operational size of the nation’s largest police force.
‘To understand this, we have to think about the history of this relationship between African Americans and Latinos. Both communities have faced the same economic problems and have lived in the same neighborhoods.’
While about 20 percent of New York’s population have been tested for the coronavirus, just about 3.6 percent of people incarcerated in the state’s prisons have received tests.
New Yorkers with disabilities had mixed reactions to the accessible absentee ballot option that the state Board of Elections (BOE) implemented for the June 23 primary.
What began as a gang in the area of Oldtown near the north side of Chicago in 1959 then became a Puerto Rican nationalist party that expanded to New York City with offices in the Bronx, East Harlem, and the Lower East Side.
La policía de Nueva York tiene el doble de latinos que negros. Pero los latinos que se han unido a las protestas dicen que el problema es mucho más que porcentajes.
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