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‘The most diverse police department in the nation’ has lowered crime in Bedford Stuyvesant by 70 percent over the last 15 years, says the NYPD’s chief spokesman.

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Aug 2009

Uncategorized

Policing In Bed-Stuy: Racial Inequities Persist

A neighborhood resident says current crime-fighting strategies that largely rely on police rookies inflame racial tensions.

ByCoriel Gaffney 0Comments

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Aug 2009

Government

Segregated and 'Adequate' Or Equal and Excellent?

Four professors studied urban schools and interviewed students about their experiences. A new book presents what they learned.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

10

Aug 2009

Justice

AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate

With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.

ByCurtis Stephen 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Housing and Homelessness

An Embedded Reporter In The American Nightmare

Journalist Alyssa Katz traveled the country seeking the causes and outcomes of our nation’s housing collapse. She set down her findings in a new book — and explains further in…

ByBendix Anderson 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Housing and Homelessness

The Forty Years War

The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government

Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana

Excerpt from the latest issue of City Limits Investigates: Marijuana has gotten cheaper in New York in the past decade with an estimated 416,000 city residents smoking it.

BySean Gardiner 3Comments

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Jul 2009

Education Government Justice

A Nurturing Network Grows In Bushwick

Amid a citywide plan to support a new model for child welfare, a foster parent serves as a recruiter and role model in her neighborhood.

ByNekoro Gomes 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city’s public discourse these days, nearly a quarter of a million people in New York…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of…

BySean Gardiner 3Comments

Policing In Bed-Stuy: Crime Down, Diversity Up

Policing In Bed-Stuy: Racial Inequities Persist

Segregated and 'Adequate' Or Equal and Excellent?

AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate

An Embedded Reporter In The American Nightmare

The Forty Years War

Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana

A Nurturing Network Grows In Bushwick

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

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