In the Media

Why Manhattan isn't going to arrest people for littering, public drinking

The NYPD’s overhaul of how to treat minor offenses such as public drinking and taking two seats on the subway represents a tap on the brakes for the nation’s largest and most influential police force.
03/04/2016
Christian Science Monitor

NEW YORK — When New York City officials announced this week that Manhattan police would stop arresting most of the scofflaws who littered, drank in public, or took up two seats on the subway, and give them summonses instead, they were in many ways addressing a lot more than such penny-ante violations of the law.

Need for police accountability, transparency and right to know - OpEd by CPR Leader Monifa Bandele

02/18/2016
New York Amsterdam News

Last week’s conviction of NYPD officer Peter Liang, the first conviction of a NYPD officer for killing a civilian in more than a decade, is an important step forward for justice for Akai Gurley’s family and police accountability. However, it hardly represents equal justice for our communities with respect to policing, or an end to the preferential double standard that most officers have experienced when they brutalize or kill.

Bill would compile data on policing practices

02/16/2016
Legislative Gazette

Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and Senator Daniel Squadron are calling for New York to overhaul the system for collecting and reporting data on policing activity throughout the state.

Their Police-STAT Act (A.7698/S.6001) would allow the state to capture and publicly report statistics about policing across the state.

More than 50 people attended a press conference in the Capitol recently to call for more transparency among law enforcement data reporting.

New Report from Federal Monitor Overseeing stop-and-frisk reforms

Evening News
02/16/2016
WBAI

— A new report was issued today by Peter Zimroth, the federal monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program. It says many officers and higher ups don't understand what's expected of them. Darius Charney with The Center For Constitutional Rights says we need a buy-in throughout the chain of command for real reform.

Click here for audio of the segment.

The Police Statistics and Transparency Act

Senator Daniel Squadron & CPR's Mark Winston-Griffith Talk #PoliceSTAT Act
02/16/2016
Capital Tonight - Time Warner Cable News

Criminal justice reform has been on the table in Albany for the past year, but a big obstacle for lawmakers is disagreement over what should be done to ease tensions between police and the communities they serve. Part of the problem is information. We currently do not have an organized collection of data about policing in the state, but my next guest has a bill that would change that. The Police Statistics and Transparency Act would require the collection of data about interactions between police and the public.

NYPD detectives union head blasts Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance

02/14/2016
New York Daily News

The head of a city police union thinks Beyoncé should turn her attention to black-on-black crime.

“She should direct her message where it’s needed most, and that’s in the ’hood, because that’s where it all takes place,” Michael Palladino (photo r.), president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, said Sunday on John Catsimatidis’ radio show, “The Cats Roundtable.”

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