Public Advocate hopeful JC Polanco also believes relatives of the severely mentally ill should be legally obligated to report when those patients appear dangerous.
Amid a struggle for Puerto Rican independence that has spanned three centuries, a police commissioner’s decision not to march in the annual parade is small potatoes.
A city councilmember and civil-liberties lawyer discuss a move to increase oversight of the growing array of eavesdropping technologies employed by local law enforcement.
City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming…
Public oversight might finally start to catch up with the NYPD’s unparalleled city-wide network of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors and environmental sensors.
Amidst the splash created by Mayor de Blasio’s pledge to close Rikers, it’s somewhat surprising that there hasn’t been more attention to the future of broken-windows policing.
Imagine a world where a federal judge has to tell civil liberties lawyers that they’ve conceded too much to the NYPD. Don’t imagine it. You’re living in it.
Bill de Blasio has added significantly to New York’s decades-old effort to protect the undocumented. But when it comes to fully resisting Trump’s aggro enforcement policy, the city’s political will…
Last year’s huge takedown of 120 alleged members made headlines. But as some cases head to trial, there are questions about the basis for charges of mass conspiracy–and the prosecution’s…