If the city wants cops who are more interested in solving problems than chasing bad guys, maybe it ought to start recruiting people with a few more years under their…
History shows that community policing funding is often rerouted to more repressive tactics, the authors write. Even when implemented, the approach asks police to do work for which they are…
An advocacy group has collected 117 anecdotes about the NYPD’s enforcement of low-level criminal offenses. The tales come in varying flavors of injustice, inconvenience and inefficiency.
Last year, more than 13,000 people were reported missing in New York City. While the majority of these missing people were found within the first few hours, others disappeared, leaving…
There’s fierce debate over a City Council proposal to decriminalize certain offenses. But this op-ed contends that neither side in the argument is talking about fundamental change to the way…
Nearly $165,000 in residual class-action settlement funds to support four nonprofits in providing critical service to the homeless and other marginalized New Yorkers
Everything you ever wanted to know about the state of marijuana laws in New York, but were afraid to ask, with Nushin Rashidian of Cannabis Wire and Danny Danko of…
The New York City Council is expected Tuesday in its response to the mayor’s preliminary fiscal year 2016 budget to call for increasing the New York City Police Department’s headcount…