CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Hyper-Policing is the Wrong Response to Brooklyn Subway Attack
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“The tragedy occurred despite the massive resources poured into NYPD and the continued expansion of its law enforcement powers.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: To Protect Chinatown and the LES, Pass the Two Bridges Community Plan
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“It’s easy to cast all opposition to developments as NIMBY, but this ignores crucial racial and economic differences between neighborhoods and disparities in who has the power to decide the future of their communities.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NY Should Approve Champlain Hudson Project, Because Frontline Communities Need Clean Air
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“COVID-19 was a wake-up call. The phrase ‘underlying health condition’ was a trigger to all Queensbridge/Ravenswood residents, who knowingly live where air quality is poor, and suffer disproportionately from asthma due to the ‘Big Allis’ smoke stack.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Defendants Living with Mental Illness Need Treatment, Not Jail
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“More than half of Rikers inmates are affected by mental illness and almost 17 percent have a serious mental health diagnosis. Yet throughout New York State, there are 30 mental health courts, which can only serve 140 participants under the current system.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: We Need More Housing–Not More Cops–to Make Our Subways Safer
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“If we are truly invested in preventing and eventually ending this horrific blight of hatred and violence against people who are homeless, we must work to end homelessness itself. This can be accomplished in two phases: immediately offering stabilization beds to New Yorkers living on the street, and providing permanent affordable housing.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Make New York City a National Leader in Employment for People With Disabilities
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“In 2021, nearly 17 percent of all working-age New Yorkers with a disability were unemployed—more than double the pre-pandemic level. These disproportionately steep economic losses compound with structural inequities that led to pandemic-level unemployment for New Yorkers with disabilities long before COVID hit.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: We Cannot Afford to Play Politics With Young People’s Lives
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“I know firsthand the toll that adult prosecution takes on teenagers. When I was 17 years old, I was arrested, charged, and sentenced as an adult, and ultimately spent 10 years in adult prisons. When I was released, I was fortunate to have family support and a place to call home. So many young people lose that support if they had it in the first place.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Displacing and Jailing My Neighbors Does Not Make Me Safer
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“Our elected officials are threatening hard-fought reforms designed to counteract the historic – and present – racism in law enforcement that targets my neighbors and eventually will target my son. Meanwhile, they fail to invest in our communities.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Coercion and Institutionalization Won’t Fix NY’s Mental Health Crisis
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“We must reject policies that single out, scapegoat, and sweep away the rights of our neighbors with mental illness.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: To Increase Public Safety, New York Must Invest in Families
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“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities in the first place.”