Government
For Justice System, 9/11 Aftershocks
Jarrett Murphy |
Secret evidence, new anti-terrorism laws, and special restrictions on lawyers who handle terrorism cases are among the ways today’s criminal justice system differs from pre-9/11 days.
Government
Immigrants Felt Brunt of U.S. Reaction
Jarrett Murphy |
The FBI generated a list of 7,600 people whose profiles shared similarities with the hijackers, and conducted some 3,200 interviews had taken place. Fewer than 20 people were arrested as a result of the interviews, none on terrorism charges.
Government
Subway Searches Raise Questions Of Efficacy, Legality
Jarrett Murphy |
There’s no way of knowing if the subway bag searches are working; it’s supposed to be a deterrent, and a deterrent’s value is only evident when it fails.
Government
Amid the Surge: Security On Display
Jarrett Murphy |
Police are strikingly visible in post 9-11 New York City—in long lines of police cars, in body armor with machine guns in hand. Does all that firepower deliver more safety, or just more fear?
Government
On Camera: Surveillance In Transit, Schools
Ali Winston |
A 1998 New York Civil Liberties Union survey identified 2,397 surveillance cameras at street level in Manhattan. In 2005, another NYCLU survey of Lower Manhattan, Greenwich Village, Chinatown and central Harlem found 4,468 cameras in those four districts alone.
Bronx
How Free? Liberties In Post-9/11 New York
Karen Loew |
Around the five boroughs, New Yorkers are divided over the freedom they have, what they are willing to give up and what they already may have lost.
ARTS and CULTURE
Near And Present Danger: Freedom In Today's City
Jarrett Murphy |
The new issue of City Limits Investigates surveys the state of liberties in post-September 11 New York.
