broken windows Archives

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“We had gone from being a very functional city, even with de Blasio and all his inabilities, to just crashing and burning,” the Republican candidate told City Limits during a…

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

15

Feb 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Don’t Pin NYPD Pot Arrests on Community Complaints

The de Blasio administration sometimes argues that its enforcement of low-level crimes like marijuana possession is driven by calls to 311. But there’s little indication that arrest numbers and call…

ByTheodore Hamm 0Comments

17

Oct 2017

In Depth Justice

Data Drop: Misdemeanor Arrests in New York City, 2013-2017

How have patterns in low-level busts changed since Bill de Blasio became mayor?

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

16

Oct 2017

Justice

Bill de Blasio’s Police Reform Agenda has Achieved Much and Disappointed Many

Through human tragedy and political crisis, the mayor has delivered on specific reform promises and kept crime low. But he has fallen short of the sweeping change advocates hoped he…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

21

Jul 2017

Opinion

CampaignViews: Let’s Talk More About the Mayor’s Cruel Take on Panhandling

When Donald Trump villainizes immigrants as criminals, most of us recognize the President’s sweeping generalizations as not only racist, but dangerous. Will there be “resistance” protests against the mayor’s musings?

ByJosmar Trujillo 5Comments

14

Jun 2017

Government

Next 100 Days: NY Pols Pressed to Go Beyond Rhetoric in Resisting Trump

There are ways to oppose the administration’s policies besides speeches and symbols. But are city and state leaders willing to pull those levers of local power?

ByAdam Wisnieski 0Comments

01

Nov 2016

Uncategorized

Advocates Offer Free Subway Swipes to Protest NYPD Busts

Some 30,000 people were arrested last year for the offense listed in New York’s penal code at section 165.15, or “theft of services,” the vague official designation for turnstile-jumping.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

04

Oct 2016

Opinion

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

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

ByJosmar Trujillo 0Comments

15

Jun 2016

Opinion

Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

ByJosmar Trujillo 2Comments

05

Jan 2016

Opinion