DA Candidates Stake Out Positions on Sex Work Decriminalization
Leave your thoughtsJennifer Orellana, a transgender woman and former sex worker from Jackson Heights, asked six of the seven announced candidates for…
Category: Policing and Criminal Justice
New York Sex Workers Are Working to Decriminalize Their Trade
Leave your thoughtsBianey García arrived in New York City from Mexico in January 2005, 14 years old, alone and without a warm…
New York Lawmakers Join Activists in Fight to Decriminalize Sex Work
Leave your thoughtsDecrim NY is a new coalition of sex workers, state lawmakers, and advocacy groups who want to make New York…
LI police reform advocates voice concerns over new consent decree guidelines
Leave your thoughtsPolice reform advocates and community activists are voicing concerns over new U.S. Department of Justice guidelines governing the use of…
CityViews: Black Women Call out the Mayor on Police Reform
Leave your thoughtsLast week’s incident caught on video of a Black woman at a city welfare center having her toddler viciously yanked…
There’s No Such Thing As a Low-Level Arrest When You’re Undocumented
Leave your thoughtsThis article is co-published with Documented, a New York City-based news organization that covers immigration issues in the City. Jessica,…
DOJ report: Suffolk makes policing improvements, work must continue
Leave your thoughtsThe Justice Department’s findings mark the first time in nearly five years of monitoring tied to the police department’s interactions…
Suffolk police: Department probing video of interview with immigrant family
Leave your thoughtsThe encounter was included in a ProPublica/Newsday story about how the department investigated a missing person case in Brentwood involving…
Immigrant group alleges NYPD fails to provide interpreters for limited-English speakers
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant rights organization Make the Road New York has filed a complaint against the NYPD, alleging that the department has…
Immigrant rights group files complaint against NYPD over language access
Leave your thoughtsWhen Mayor Bill de Blasio defends New York’s “sanctuary city” policies, he often cites a public safety rationale. Immigrants must…