“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.”
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
The MTA says turnstile jumping exploded when the NYPD pulled back on subway arrests. But critics doubt the numbers.
What’s the practical impact of all these troopers—and, for that matter, the other police forces that patrol the bridges, tunnels, airports and train lines—on the city’s criminal justice system?