CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Bloated Police Budgets Don’t Make Us Safe
Cheyenne Lee |
“The City Council must have the courage to use the budget to hold the NYPD accountable.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC’s Subways Need Services, Not Soldiers
Robert Mascali |
“We can create a better environment for both the homeless and riders by setting up drop-in centers within some of the larger subway stations.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City Council Must Act to Keep NYPD Radio Transmissions Public
Andy Ratto |
“An independent, informed press is an essential check against the police, and it is critical that police radios remain open for journalists to monitor police actions and breaking news events.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Closing the Loophole in NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Oversight
Terron Belle |
“The federal monitor overseeing the NYPD stop and frisk reforms has repeatedly warned that officers are under-reporting stops, leading to a likely massive undercount. In my case, this meant that I was not able to identify the officers who stopped me, since they never filled out the required stop report.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Geofence Warrants Violate NY’s Constitution. Let’s Ban Them.
Michaelle Solages |
“These searches enable government agencies to track the whereabouts of thousands of individuals without any specific suspicion of their involvement in criminal activities.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The NYPD’s Abuse of Sealed Arrest Records Jeopardizes All New Yorkers
Niji Jain and Natasha Duncan |
“Last month, a New York state judge issued a sweeping order mandating that the NYPD make major reforms to its practices and systems for using sealed arrest records—records the NYPD has been illegally using to spy on and target millions of people for the past 46 years.”
Citywide
Data Drop: NYPD Issued Majority of Street Vending Tickets in 2022
Daniel Parra |
The NYPD and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) together doled out 5,197 tickets to vendors last year, with the police department issuing significantly more tickets, despite a de Blasio-era pledge to shift them away from enforcement. After an eight-month delay, the DOHMH will also begin issuing applications for new supervisory licenses for vendors by the end of the month.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: If NYC Hosts the Democratic Convention, It Must Do Better Than ’04—At Protecting Free Speech
Jarrett Murphy |
“In 2004, the Republican National Convention came to New York City. Outside, the NYPD perpetrated some of the worst offenses against civil liberties in the city’s history. Cops rounded up 1,800 protesters in a single day, most of whom were demonstrating peacefully.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Do We Want to Solve Violence, or Crime?
Danielle Sered and Kira Shepherd |
“For decades politicians have focused on reducing crime while communities end up with nothing that actually solves violence—and often with strategies that make it worse.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Increased Police Presence in Schools Will Only Help Strengthen the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Amanda Fialk |
“Though society is scared and grieving, we cannot allow the knee jerk reaction to the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde to ignore the systemic, policy, and evidence-based realities and root causes of gun violence.”
