NYCHA is bringing back the “Not Wanted” list, more cops are being assigned to address street homelessness and—in the wake of a cop’s death—the mayor is faulting criminal courts…
There have been 26,000 fewer misdemeanor arrests in 2015 compared to the same period last year, with drug crimes and turnstile jumping among the crimes that have seen the biggest…
The controversy involving a pioneering pedestrian plaza in a neighborhood famously transformed by quality-of-life policing is a clash between two dominant ideas in modern New York: One, that sanitized spaces…
An advocacy group has collected 117 anecdotes about the NYPD’s enforcement of low-level criminal offenses. The tales come in varying flavors of injustice, inconvenience and inefficiency.
There’s fierce debate over a City Council proposal to decriminalize certain offenses. But this op-ed contends that neither side in the argument is talking about fundamental change to the way…
The NYPD contends that its quality-of-life crackdowns respond to residents’ complaints. But there’s little evidence of a consistent link between 311 reports and police activity.
