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Manhattan DA Launches Application Process to Root Out Wrongful Convictions

By Jeanmarie Evelly | April 20, 2022

Those convicted of a crime prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney can apply to have their closed case reviewed by the new Post-Conviction Justice Unit (PCJU), what reform-minded DA Alvin Bragg called a “significant priority” for his office. “If you’ve committed the wrong person, there’s someone else out there who’s still doing harm.”

Opinion

Opinion: Gov. Hochul’s Bail Plan Will Upend Years of Reform While Failing to Address Safety

By Carl Hamad-Lipscombe | March 28, 2022

‘The likely consequences of Hochul’s plan—job loss, family separation, lack of medical and mental health care and drug treatment, and more school absences—would destabilize families and communities and, ultimately, exacerbate the problems she aims to address.’

Opinion

Opinion: DA Bragg’s Well-Intentioned Reforms Have Little Impact While Racist Policing Persists

By Robert Gangi | February 7, 2022

‘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.’

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Opinion: NY’s Cannabis Legalization Plan Must Prioritize Communities Hurt Most by Criminalization

By Michelle Yanche | March 4, 2021

“While Cuomo’s plan acknowledges the social equity imperative of legalization, it allocates only $100 million in tax grants to communities most harmed. That’s a step – but it’s not enough.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: It Will Take a Village to Save Policing

By Leonardo Coello | August 11, 2020

‘The Village Act takes an outside-of-the-box approach, where healing the relationship between the public and law enforcement is at the root.’

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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Fear Prevailed in the Crusade to Undo New York’s Bail Reforms

By Zamir Ben-Dan, Rachel Wagner and Sarah Young | April 7, 2020

‘Under the new amendments to the law, Kalief Browder would have been eligible for bail, the prosecutor would have again asked for bail, and bail would have been set. Under the law that just passed, Kalief’s story ends no differently.’

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Max & Murphy: The Push to Roll Back New York’s Criminal Justice Reforms

By Jarrett Murphy | November 28, 2019

DAs and conservative pols are denouncing criminal justice reforms that, after years of advocacy, were finally adopted in Albany last spring. Bail reform and discovery reform are the focus of the ire.

Agenda 2019
A bail business in the Bronx.

Opinion: Our Shared Faith and the Fight for Bail Reform

By Stephanie Kolin and Winnie Varghese | March 27, 2019

A priest and a rabbi write, ‘Our traditions teach that when a person is held captive and the value of their freedom is assigned a price tag that they cannot afford,’ the basic teachings of both their faiths are violated.

Agenda 2019

Max & Murphy: What Are the Prospects for Bail Reform in 2019?

By Jarrett Murphy | November 15, 2018

The sponsor of an Assembly measure that would sharply constrain the use of financial bail says she is optimistic her proposal will become law now that Democrats control the State Senate.

Agenda 2019

CityViews: 2019 is the Year to Totally Change Policing in New York City

By Robert Gangi | November 15, 2018

‘Our recommended changes will aim to advance meaningful and substantive remedies that no mainstream politician will currently support. Not because they don’t make sense but because they are too politically charged.’

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