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Dec 16, 20190 min read
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Rep. Rose joins members of NY delegation calling for review of criminal justice reform plan
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A bipartisan group of New York Congress members, including the borough’s representative, have joined calls for the...
Dec 5, 20191 min read
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Why New York needs to pause criminal-justice reform
Even as prosecutors and police across New York are struggling to avoid disaster as one major wave of “criminal-justice reform” kicks in...
Dec 4, 20191 min read
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Pols still ignoring warnings about New York’s botched criminal justice reforms
Law enforcement officials rallied Thursday across the Empire State in a fresh round of pleas to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature to...
Nov 23, 20191 min read
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Bailing on responsibility:
As previously detained serious offenders are granted pre-trial release, elected leaders must take another look at recent criminal justice...
Nov 19, 20191 min read
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Maryland man breaks Port Authority cop’s nose, damages his eye in bus terminal ‘ambush’
Two days after a Manhattan judge freed him without bail on a fugitive warrant, a Maryland man brutally pummeled a Port Authority cop...
Nov 7, 20191 min read
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Nov 6, 20190 min read
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Progressive AG Letitia James warns about New York’s coming criminal justice disaster
Cash shortages aside, the reforms — which require defendants to be set free with no bail for all but a handful of violent crimes — are...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
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Big cities are posing a major threat to the economy by ignoring minor crimes
Of all the brewing threats to America's continuing economic prosperity, one of the most serious comes straight out of the police blotter....
Oct 11, 20191 min read
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Fighting Gun Violence in Chicago, With Trees, Rakes, and Cleanup Crews
Last spring, a Chicago resident fired off an email to her alderman complaining about the litter covering a vacant parcel of city-owned...
Sep 21, 20191 min read
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Issues 2020: Mass Decarceration Will Increase Violent Crime
The size of America’s prison population is driven by the incarceration of violent felons. These felons are held mostly in state prisons,...
Sep 19, 20191 min read
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Sep 2, 20190 min read
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Aug 30, 20190 min read
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Peace on the streets requires long-term commitments, and soon
While we still see spikes in weekend violence, and headlines that decry the city not doing enough, it is apparent to me that continual...
Aug 29, 20191 min read
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Reducing Street Crime
Can simply adding more police officers to the streets, or changing how they operate, reduce the crime rate? A report from the Brennan...
Aug 28, 20191 min read
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We Can’t Imagine What Cops Go Through
Since June of this year, six members of the NYPD have committed suicide, bringing the 2019 total to eight. This represents a sharp rise...
Aug 14, 20192 min read
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Cops turn fare evasion bust into gun and heroin arrest of parolee
A minor subway crime led police to a major drug bust. When cops nabbed a serial turnstile jumper in the Bronx last month, they grilled...
Aug 12, 20191 min read
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Crime and Non-Punishment in NYC
New Yorkers who have arrived in the two decades since Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the streets take for granted that they can comfortably...
Aug 9, 20191 min read
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‘Soft targets’ site of almost all mass shootings in last two years
More than two hundred people have been killed in mass shootings in the last two years, and almost all of them at soft targets -- which...
Aug 5, 20191 min read
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2019 Mid-Year Preliminary Law Enforcement Officers Fatalities Report
Click the below report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund to view in entirety.
Aug 2, 20191 min read
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