A federally funded program in East New York will use extensive research to try to predict which domestic violence incidents augur a fatal end, and then employ coordinated efforts to…
Reports indicate the NYPD is under pressure to withdraw a 2007 report on radicalization. Defenders believe recent tragedies prove the report was prescient. But critics have long taken issue with…
An artist who is postering American cities with images of raised hands says conflicting evidence about the killing of Michael Brown hasn’t changed the power of his visual protest.
“In our faith communities there has been an unspoken expectation that our religious leaders would also be community leaders, though sadly this is changing.”
Despite pledges of greater transparency, the de Blasio administration has yet to make accessible several key streams of data on crime and policing.
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any…
On a per capita basis, state inmates are less likely than city prisoners to be perpetrators or victims of violence. But the numbers point to a persistent suicide problem and…
