One lawmaker and local health experts are calling for the city to automatically schedule vaccination appointments for New Yorkers who’ve been fully inoculated against COVID-19, but have yet to get…
‘Contrary to Mayor Eric Adams’ recent rhetoric, there is no technology that will de-bias and constitutionalize stop and frisk. Tech-washing harmful political strategies will not transform those strategies beyond their…
Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism and Intelligence John Miller says the threat to New York has evolved from spectacular plots directed by large ‘terrorist bureaucracies’ to lone-wolf attacks across a broad…
On a tricky case involving Freedom of Information Law requests and terrorism investigations, the state’s top court made a tough call, based in part on an interesting claim by the…
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.
Reports indicate the NYPD is under pressure to withdraw a 2007 report on radicalization. Defenders believe recent tragedies prove the report was prescient. But critics have long taken issue with…