Criminal Justice
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Resource Guide
CUNY investigative team |
These organizations offer help and advice to people fighting a bad rap sheet:
Investigations
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Q&A on Rap Sheets
CUNY investigative team |
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?
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: Legislature Falls Down on Fixes
Rebecca Bratek and Terence Cullen |
In Albany, only a handful of legislators have tried to get government to fix its own mistakes.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: One Man Vs. a Multitude of Errors
Briana Duggan |
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: The 7-Year Quest to Fix 1 Skewed Sheet
Laura Bult and Rosa Goldensohn |
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: Mistaken Arrest Records Haunt Millions
CUNY investigative team |
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.
