‘The NYPD routinely shields police officers from accountability and oversight. One way they do so is by refusing to name officers involved in troubling incidents, even when captured on video.’
Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism and Intelligence John Miller says the threat to New York has evolved from spectacular plots directed by large ‘terrorist bureaucracies’ to lone-wolf attacks across a broad…
‘Until Albany finally repeals 50a and until we have an administration with a zero-tolerance approach to NYPD misconduct, local District Attorneys must themselves start to hold these officers accountable.’
Even if the most intense reverberations from Commissioner James O’Neill’s August 19 decision subside, the Garner case will continue to shape conversations about the mayor, the police department and the…
The national uproar to the recent ICE raids in Mississippi cast a bright light on an issue that stretches well beyond immigration: the practice of arresting parents without adequate regard…
An upcoming rezoning has some worried that more residents will clog up the roads in cars and bikes, contributing to more crashes and pedestrian deaths.
The chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety believes the mayor could play a more decisive role than he’s said, and could have played it much sooner, in deciding…
The weekly WBAI public affairs show gets an update on the recount in the Queens Democratic district attorney primary and checks in with a top advocacy group about where criminal-justice…