New York Justice Delayed Is New York Justice Denied
Leave your thoughtsIt has been nearly three years since Kalief Browder tragically ended his own life after being caged, abused, and tortured…
Category: Policing and Criminal Justice
Cuomo Signs Executive Order Barring State Police From Asking People About Immigration Status
Leave your thoughtsALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Friday, barring New York State Police and other agencies from asking…
Police Brutality and Deportation Won’t Stop the Deadly MS-13 Gang
Leave your thoughtsWalter Barrientos, 32, is Long Island organizing director for Make the Road New York, an immigrants rights group based in…
Instan se elimine la presencia policial en escuelas de NYC
Leave your thoughtsDecenas de estudiantes se manifiestan frente a las escalinatas de la alcaldía. Organizaciones de estudiantes y grupos comunitarios instan este…
Youth Leaders and Pols Urge New York City to Yank the NYPD Out of Public Schools
Leave your thoughtsMembers of the Urban Youth Collaborative are calling on the city to end the school-to-prison pipeline. Madina Toure/Observer Youth leaders…
The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization, and How Justice Reinvestment Can Build a Better Future for All
Leave your thoughtsEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Imagine if, back in 1982, our federal, state, and local policymakers had assembled the U.S. public and offered…
Nearly a thousand protesters march through Astoria calling for close of Rikers Island
Leave your thoughtsNearly 1,000 protesters demanded the closing of Rikers Island during a march through Astoria on their way to a rally…
Immigrant advocacy group files amicus brief in NYPD discrimination lawsuit
Leave your thoughtsThe city’s largest grassroots immigrant advocacy group will announce on Thursday that it is filing a friend of the court…
Darian Agostini: What Brattons legacy looks like from Flatbush
Leave your thoughtsGrowing up in Flatbush in the 2000s, I fell in love with the vibrancy of my community. I loved the…
NYPD Needs To Do More in Transgender Beating Investigation, Activists Say
Leave your thoughtsTanya Walker said she doesn’t agree with the NYPD’s decision to no longer investigate the beating of a trans woman…