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Mamdani’s new Office of Community Safety tackles hate violence (opens the original)
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to integrate community safety into city government remains underway. Last week, the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC), which he reshuffled under his new Mayor’s Office of Community Safety (OCS), awarded $120,000 in grant money to 13 local organizations to combat “hate, bias, and discrimination across all five boroughs.” “This grant is a way for us to ensure that we are engaging those who are affected and most vulnerable to hate bias discrimin
NYPD misconduct payouts approach $1 billion since they became publicly disclosed in 2018 (opens the original)
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Last month, the Legal Aid Society, the country’s oldest public defense organization, found that the city paid out more than $53.5 million for NYPD misconduct claims in the first half of this year. The total payouts since 2018, when the city started disclosing the data, now approach $1 billion in taxpayer money. Amanda Jack, the director of policy for the Legal Society’s Criminal Law Reform Unit, says investing in public services and resources will prevent these lawsuits and save taxpayer money l
Did the NYPD fail to disclose Flock camera database access? (opens the original)
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Public anxiety has recently intensified over technology that reads license plates, but now the NYPD could find itself as part of that controversy. New data has surfaced showing the department may have utilized the controversial Flock Safety database, despite lacking an official public agreement with the vendor. Civil rights advocacy organizations LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) now want answers from the NYPD on why a credible third-party website
City’s Racial Equity Plan set to shape criminal justice policy, but some are not satisfied with it (opens the original)
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It’s been a long time coming for the city’s Racial Equity Plan, but will change actually come? The perpetually delayed blueprint was supposed to dictate this year’s city budget talks towards improving diversity and combating systemic racism rooted in local government, but only came out earlier this month and long after this fiscal year’s appropriations were finalized. An upcoming November Financial Plan Update will allow the city to visit the adopted budget mid-fiscal year and provide an opportu
Harlem electeds join calls to reopen Columbia University’s campus to public (opens the original)
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More than just a 4% undergraduate admission rate is keeping people out of Columbia University. As another new semester kicks off behind closed gates, uptown locals want the campus reopened to the public for the first time since 2023. Last week, Morningside Heights Community Coalition (MHCC) organizers staged the fifth protest in the past two years calling for restored open access to the school grounds. And they say momentum is on their side. “This was far and away the largest of the protests,” s
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