arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: Mistaken Arrest Records Haunt Millions
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New York’s law enforcement system is great at arresting people, but lousy at keeping track of how the records of those encounters are handled.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: The 7-Year Quest to Fix 1 Skewed Sheet
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Kevin Cleare marched from a police precinct to district attorneys’ offices to courthouses in an effort to clear up mistakes that had somehow burrowed deep into his criminal record history.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: One Man Vs. a Multitude of Errors
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One of every two people at Rikers Island has mistakes on their record. Frank Murphy is working to correct them, one by one.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: Legislature Falls Down on Fixes
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In Albany, only a handful of legislators have tried to get government to fix its own mistakes.
Investigations
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Q&A on Rap Sheets
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Millions of New Yorkers have mistakes on their criminal “rap sheets” that are extraordinarily difficult to fix. But what is a RAP-sheet? Who gets to see it? How do you see yours?
Criminal Justice
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Resource Guide
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These organizations offer help and advice to people fighting a bad rap sheet: