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Video of two NYPD officers dragging and handcuffing a man at the 8th Ave L train station Monday underscores concerns about Mayor Eric Adams’ new plan to send more cops…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Oct 2021

Justice Opinion

Opinion: Expanding NY’s Emergency Alert System to Better Protect ‘Forgotten Victims’

‘Institutional gaps within the emergency broadcast system, widely known as The Amber Alert, have critical flaws that have historically excluded victims who are 18 or older.’

ByDawn Rowe 0Comments

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Aug 2021

Justice Opinion

Opinion: To Improve Public Safety in NYC, Send Fewer People to Jail

‘Jail separates people from work and family, jeopardizes stable housing, and subjects them to violence, especially in inhumane environments like Rikers. Incarceration must be the option of last resort, used…

ByJonathan Lippman

ByCourtney Bryan 0Comments

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Apr 2021

Government Investigations Justice News

In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Adams Embraces a Term Police Critics Have Targeted

The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2021

Economy Government Justice Podcasts

Hear the Republicans Who Are Running for NYC Mayor

Curtis Sliwa and Fernando Mateo are vying to be the GOP alternative to whoever emerges victorious from the crowded Democratic primary.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2021

Government Justice Transportation

The Policy Shop: Subways Every Six Minutes, Green Infrastructure and Childcare for All

Candidates for NYC mayor and other posts continued to publish big ideas for the city’s problems, including hunger, transit, gun violence and a pitch for universal childcare for kids…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2021

Government Justice Video

Max & Murphy on the Issues: Policing

In the first in a series of video briefings about the top issues of Campaign 2021, the hosts of WBAI’s Max & Murphy Show break down the sprawling issues…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2020

Government Justice

On Crime and Justice, Biden and Trump Both Have Long Records

From the Central Park Five and the ’94 Crime Bill to Black Lives Matter, both candidates have a track record and a distinct policy vision.

ByKristen McNerney 0Comments

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Aug 2020

Investigations Justice

NYC’s Rise in Auto Thefts Puzzles Experts

Since the beginning of the year, rates of reported car thefts in New York City have climbed by 60 percent—the biggest increase of any of the seven major felonies tracked…

ByHolly DeMuth 3Comments

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Jul 2020

Podcasts

Public Advocate Says Cops & ‘Cure Violence’ are Both Part of the Solution to Shootings

Jumaane Williams blames the rise in bloodshed not on criminal-justice reform or a slowed court system but on the devastation wrought by COVID-19.

ByAnika Chowdhury

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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