Public oversight might finally start to catch up with the NYPD’s unparalleled city-wide network of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors and environmental sensors.
A coalition of leading criminal justice groups is fiercely opposing a new crackdown on NYCHA residents after a scathing Department of Investigations report on how the authority handles alleged criminal…
A pilot program gives women alleging abuse the chance to obtain a temporary order of protection via videoconference, allowing them to avoid the dangers and difficulties inherent in a trip…
Research shows—and inmate families insist—that visitation is key to prisoners successfully rejoining society and to limiting the damage of incarceration to children.
Bill de Blasio has added significantly to New York’s decades-old effort to protect the undocumented. But when it comes to fully resisting Trump’s aggro enforcement policy, the city’s political will…
When New Yorkers gathered in Washington Square Park on Wednesday night, signs and speeches reflected the broad array of causes that define today’s movement for womens’ empowerment.
City statute and U.S. law mean federal authorities are unlikely to succeed if the try to get information on the immigration status of people who used homeless services or other…
