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Marijuana Reform Efforts Move Forward This Week in NY and RI
NEW YORK: A new report will be released on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday, documenting the astronomical financial costs of the over 50,300 arrests for marijuana possession in New York City in 2010,...
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Formerly Incarcerated Issue Statement Regarding NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy
Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People’s Movement June 17th 2012 Silent March against Racial Profiling Letter in Solidarity There comes a time when the American people must recognize that we lead...
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Power of the Silent Marchers?
Today’s march down Fifth Avenue was more than just a Sunday stroll of pissed off activists. Fathers and sons joined with thousands of others from all five boroughs of New York, to send a unified...
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Crashing the System with Stop and Frisk
The Floyd v. New York class action suit, to hold the city accountable for hundreds of thousands of baseless harassments by the NYPD, is the affordable option for NYC taxpayers and the court system. If...
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What They Don’t Tell You About NYC Crime Data
Any study on “safety” would always be subjective. What is “safe?” It is a feeling, not a fact. It is relative, and highly impacted by the media’s reporting of crimes- both near and far. Looking at...
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In the Floyd case, the NYPD faces tough scrutiny of Stop-and-Frisk tactics
This article was originally written for The Guardian, here. The New York Police Department is on trial in Floyd v City of New York, and the public is watching. It is ironic that the policy of recording...
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Part Three: Comparing the Precincts- Is Crime Reduced by Stop-and-Frisk?
As the Floyd v. New York trial continues in federal court, we hear various rationales about why the policy’s effectiveness trumps the widespread erosion (if not clear violation) of civil rights. The...
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Part Four: Is Campaign Finance Driven By Cops, Courts, and Corrections?
Mayor Bloomberg is term-limited, thus the city will lose its primary supporter of the Stop & Frisk policy in 2013. Whereas many Democrats participated in the Silent March of over 10,000 people...
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Stop and Frisk: Dispelling the Myth of NYPD Victory
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently put the brakes on the victory won by civil rights and social justice groups in Floyd v. City of New York. Many New Yorkers had been condemning the NYPD’s...
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