Some 30,000 people were arrested last year for the offense listed in New York’s penal code at section 165.15, or “theft of services,” the vague official designation for turnstile-jumping.
‘New York State spending on criminalization and incarceration of our communities has mushroomed over the past 30 years, while other critical social services and education and infrastructure investments have gone…
BRIC-TV interviews Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito about her decision to let the NYPD police itself, a councilmember who might force a different course of action and a mother whose loss…
A former NYPD sergeant, a civil liberties lawyer and a social-justice advocate break down the discussion of stop-and-frisk during the presidential debate and discuss the state of reform efforts close…
Hoping to make gun charges result in convictions earlier and more often, New York City is pursuing another experiment with specialized gun courts. But making illegal weapons charges stick is…