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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Delivering New York’s Cannabis Promise as Licensing Begins

Justine Olderman, Desmon Lewis and Toni Smith-Thompson | August 23, 2022

“For these licenses to serve their purpose, individuals who were targeted for arrest and prosecution must be first in line and have access to non-predatory resources and legal support to help them build the generational wealth long denied by the War on Drugs.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

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

Alice L. Fontier | April 1, 2022

“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.”

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Opinion: DA Bragg’s Well-Intentioned Reforms Have Little Impact While Racist Policing Persists

Robert Gangi | February 7, 2022

‘Of the 33 cases we at PROP have seen this year, none entailing a serious charge, 30 involved New Yorkers of color—unsurprising since 90 percent of the more than 7,000 cases we have observed since beginning the Court Monitoring Project in 2014 also involved New Yorkers of color.’

Criminal Justice

Opinion: Beyond Wrongful Convictions, The Burden of Accusation Still Weighs

Emily Galvin-Almanza | October 27, 2021

‘When it comes to unpacking the harm of police misconduct, the people who were convicted are just the part of the puzzle we see most easily. For the people who were not convicted, the harm remains, with no recourse.’

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Opinion: Close the Loophole that Lets Police Handcuff Women in Labor

Adrienne Adams | May 19, 2021

‘The NYPD updated their patrol guide to prohibit restraining arrestees in labor. But the policy will not be worth the paper it is printed on unless the NYPD educates officers. And if the department needs help, I will volunteer myself to visit each precinct with a bullhorn to hammer it home.’

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Youth Arrests Decrease in NYC but Racial Disparities Persist

Fernando Martínez for El Diario | October 14, 2020

A study finds that the Raise the Age policy shift has had an impact, but the pool of kids being arrested has grown even more Black and Latino, El Diario reports.

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New York Courts Accepting Requests to Destroy Marijuana Arrest Records

Jarrett Murphy | September 21, 2020

Arrests for two lower-level weed charges have been expunged and the records sealed, but if you want those records destroyed altogether, there’s a form to fill out.

Opinion: NYC Must Act Now to Safeguard Children When Their Parent is Arrested

Elizabeth Gaynes and Daniel Dromm | August 14, 2019

The national uproar to the recent ICE raids in Mississippi cast a bright light on an issue that stretches well beyond immigration: the practice of arresting parents without adequate regard for the well-being of their children.

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Crime and Punishment Have Both Plummeted in Bushwick

Jarrett Murphy | August 7, 2019

In the 83rd precinct that covers Bushwick, there were 77 murders in 1990, 44 in 1993 and 20 as recently as 2004. Last year, there were eight. This year the 83rd is on pace for six homicides.

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Does Less Policing = More Fare Beating on New York City Subways?

Jeanmarie Evelly | January 30, 2019

The MTA says turnstile jumping exploded when the NYPD pulled back on subway arrests. But critics doubt the numbers.

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