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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CityViews: Police, Politics and the Puerto Rican Day Parade

Josmar Trujillo | May 24, 2017

Amid a struggle for Puerto Rican independence that has spanned three centuries, a police commissioner’s decision not to march in the annual parade is small potatoes.

No BackSpace: Shackling Inmates Will Only Make Rikers Violence Worse

David A. Fullard | March 22, 2017

A veteran DOC officer writes: ‘We simply must develop the will to expend the money for services and staff, rather than on restraint chairs and solitary cells.’

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No Backspace: NY’s Rules for Policing Political Activity Still Need Tightening

Josmar Trujillo | March 17, 2017

Imagine a world where a federal judge has to tell civil liberties lawyers that they’ve conceded too much to the NYPD. Don’t imagine it. You’re living in it.

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NoBackspace: Vision Zero Works When Victim-Blaming Stops and Accountability Starts

Lisa Brown | February 21, 2017

When we hear about traffic crashes, there’s a tendency to question the intentions of the victim first and immediately put fault on them, instead of a reckless driver. That has to change.

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No BackSpace: It’s the Incessant Fundraising, Stupid (Why Big Money Dooms Democrats)

Joel Berg | February 1, 2017

‘Campaigning and governing is now indistinguishable from fundraising. The vast majority of e-mails and letters that I now receive from elected officials are either thinly veiled fundraising pitches or overt ones. The last e-mail I received from Obama as President was a fundraising pitch.’

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No BackSpace: Amid Racist Sentiment, Year of the Rooster Dawns on a Stronger Chinese NYC

Rong Xiaoqing | January 31, 2017

A Trump presidency and persistent incidents of anti-Asian sentiment are disturbing. But this author is appeased by the footsteps of the Year of Rooster and its prophetic messages.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

No BackSpace: IDNYC Fiasco Shows Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Trust the City

Josmar Trujillo | January 12, 2017

This op-ed argues: ‘With Trumpmageddon looming, undocumented immigrants may have very learned the hard way that government, whether local or federal, liberal or conservative, may never be able provide them a true sanctuary.’

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Op-Ed: Rejecting the East Harlem ‘Community’ Plan

Josmar Trujillo | November 21, 2016

Not everyone in the East Harlem neighborhood feels they were part of crafting the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, which welcomes development that many distrust.

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No BackSpace: Clinton and Trump vs. the Truth—Stop & Frisk Isn’t Over

Josmar Trujillo | October 4, 2016

Stop and frisk in the city isn’t over. But you might not know it if you watched national headlines last week.

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No Backspace: The Surprising Support for Trump Among New Chinese Immigrants

Rong Xiaoqing | September 13, 2016

Newcomers in Chinatown have convinced themselves that the xenophobia stoked by the Republican nominee will distinguish between documented and undocumented immigrants. They are, the author writes, tragically mistaken.

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