The issue of law enforcement officers sexually assaulting inmates and detainees isn’t new. What’s also not new is the tendency of cities, municipalities, and governments to look the other way. Some studies show the problem is widespread.
READ MORENew York Crime Lessens Above Ground But The Subway Makes Up For It
While New York City’s streets are safer today, crime is spiking along the underground.
READ MOREJuvenile Justice Can Be Confusing
Two recent events in New York metro’s legal arena highlight the confusing world of juvenile justice. In one incident a 40-something year old man is tried as a youth while in the other juveniles will no longer be sent to adult prisons in The Big Apple.
READ MORENew York State Tightens Hate Crime Laws Following Charlottesville
“What are these illegal immigrants doing here? I hate immigrant people,” yelled David Caputo according to prosecutors. The diminutive man had a machete when he threatened to kill and man on a Sunset Park street in June. On December 6, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun refused prosecutors’ request to boost Caputo’s bail to $10,000. […]
READ MORESmile! You’re Being Surveilled By New York’s Finest
New Yorkers see them strapped to the back of patrol cars, mounted on toll booths and hanging on metal posts along the highway. “They” are automatic license plate readers and have become the spark of an ongoing debate in the balance between crime fighting and privacy invasion.
READ MOREMichael Brown Could Have Just Stopped Running
Ferguson, Missouri ripped apart in August 2014 when a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed a black teenager, Michael Brown. Protests echoed from America’s east coast to west coast, but maybe it took a New York City playwright to put the pieces together.
READ MOREA Fifty-Year Fight For Exoneration In New York City
Fifty-years is a long time to wage a legal battle. It’s way too long when you’re the one fighting and you’ve been innocent the entire time.
READ MOREFor Harvey Weinstein The Hits Keep Coming — But Not In A Good Way
Deposed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein gets caught in more accusations and allegations of sexual abuse, and the public learns more about the “forcible touching” law.
READ MOREF-Bombs Litter The Courtroom And Elsewhere
A word which used to be limited to locker rooms and schoolyard spats is now getting national coverage thanks to a trio of offenders — including a New York City judge who was instructed to begin his retirement a month early.
READ MOREStrange And Unusual New York Criminal Laws & Statutes
New York may have more laws per capita than any other American nation. Not all of them make sense. Written decades ago with a valid purpose, the intent has gotten lost in the mists of time. Yet the laws remain on the books. Here are a few:
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