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Opinion: How New York Can Get Decarceration Right This Time

“Economically it is not feasible, and the practice flies in the face of the social justice that we value as Americans. Failure to implement a smart, strategic, well-informed, and well-constructed…

Government Justice Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Hyper-Policing is the Wrong Response to Brooklyn Subway Attack

“The tragedy occurred despite the massive resources poured into NYPD and the continued expansion of its law enforcement powers.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: To Protect Chinatown and the LES, Pass the Two Bridges Community Plan

“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…

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: NY Should Approve Champlain Hudson Project, Because Frontline Communities Need Clean Air

“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…

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Defendants Living with Mental Illness Need Treatment, Not Jail

“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…

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: We Need More Housing–Not More Cops–to Make Our Subways Safer

“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…

Economy Government Opinion

Opinion: Make New York City a National Leader in Employment for People With Disabilities

“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…

Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: We Cannot Afford to Play Politics With Young People’s Lives

“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…

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Displacing and Jailing My Neighbors Does Not Make Me Safer

“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.…

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: Coercion and Institutionalization Won’t Fix NY’s Mental Health Crisis

“We must reject policies that single out, scapegoat, and sweep away the rights of our neighbors with mental illness.”

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