In many ways, Bay Street is like corridors in other de Blasio administration neighborhood plans. One difference is the tensions over race, policing and ‘quality of life’ that have played…
Ted Cruz’s Islamophobia is easy to reject. But New Yorkers should also be concerned about their city’s demand for more counter-terrorism funding from the federal government.
Prosecutor Ken Thompson says the cop who killed a man in a NYCHA stairwell shouldn’t do a day behind bars because he didn’t intend to hurt anyone. More than 200…
New Yorkers who are murdered are more likely than murder victims elsewhere to be stabbed. And women are more likely to die from a knife attack than a gun assault.…
Art has been part of the response to the killing of Eric Garner and other incidents. But artists with a political message can face challenges finding space to show their…
A report by the Civilian Complaint Review Board finds that the NYPD on several occasions has failed to follow proper procedure when entering private homes, often doing so without a…
Since at least 1966, police unions and city officials have been engaged in an often charged debate over who should decide whether a cop has abused his or her power.
An activist argues that reforms—those recently passed or currently considered—will never really end the harm that Broken Windows policing does to communities of color. What would work is to make…
The program would handle gun cases to serve one basic underlying purpose: to speed up gun convictions. Many, however, might not equate “fast tracking” with justice or due process.