‘Never Designed To Help’: How New York's ‘Child Welfare’ System Preys On Families
This story was produced in partnership with the New York Civil Liberties Union.
May 15, 2023
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The NYPD is already too big, so cut its budget: What are New Yorkers getting from spending $29 million daily on cops?
Budgets are moral documents, and when it comes to New York City’s fiscal blueprint, the budget is also an opportunity to imagine the city we want to build. As Mayor Adams and the City Council negotiate a final budget next month, the mayor’s latest offer lacks imagination.
May 2, 2023 Police AccountabilityAn Early Look at US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
We are just six months into the inaugural and historic U.S. Supreme Court term of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s not too early to take a first look at her work.
April 6, 2023 Criminal Justice Reform Reproductive Rights and JusticeRolling back bail reform won't solve NY's problems with crime. Here's why
Since bail reform was passed in 2019, it has saved some of New York’s poorest families tens of millions of dollars, allowed thousands of people to contribute to their communities instead of risking their lives in deadly jails, and reduced our state’s addiction to the mass incarceration of people
March 24, 2023 Criminal Justice ReformAnother Voice: The BPS Board of Education has not done nearly enough to address suspensions
Buffalo Public Schools has a suspension crisis.
March 8, 2023 Education School-to-Prison PipelineMayor Adams: Don’t Mess with Separation of Church and State
Mayor Eric Adams’s outlandish comments during an interfaith breakfast Tuesday criticizing the nation’s constitutionally mandated separation of church and state were playing with fire. “Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state.
March 2, 2023 Freedom of Speech and Religion