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The Legislature endangered the public by botching criminal-justice reform
As a progressive prosecutor, I had high expectations for the 2019 legislative session. My party controlled both chambers, and I had hoped...
Jun 18, 20191 min read
Progressives just won’t admit the truth about opioids and the homeless
By latest count, some 109,089 people are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon and Washington. The homelessness...
Jun 17, 20191 min read
What Big Pot doesn’t want you to know about costs of legalizing marijuana
Lobbyists and lawmakers everywhere like to make bold-but-reality-challenged claims to advance legislation. But in its push to legalize...
Jun 14, 20191 min read
Like it or not, broken windows works
By: William J. Bratton as seen in the NY Daily News One of the foundations of New York City’s public safety renaissance is falling out of...
Jun 2, 20196 min read
Broken Windows Works
Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory,...
Jun 1, 20191 min read
Joe Biden: Be Proud of Your Crime Bill
Joe Biden has been attacked by politicians on the left — and now, thanks to Donald Trump, on the right — for his role in shepherding the...
May 31, 20191 min read
One dangerous bail reform law
As part of this year’s budget bill, the Legislature has passed a measure that will greatly reduce the number of arrested persons for whom...
May 29, 20191 min read
Paging Bill Bratton – you’re needed in Boston
William J. Bratton is the former police commissioner of New York, Los Angeles — and Boston — who became famous for implementing the...
May 28, 20191 min read
MEMORIAL DAY: A MOMENT TO PRAISE, THINK AND REMEMBER
From Robert Dilenschneider: As we move toward the Memorial Day weekend, barbecues and the start of summer, let us take a moment to...
May 27, 20193 min read
May 19, 20190 min read
A Visionary of Public Order
Law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods keep proving George Kelling right and most of his colleagues wrong. Kelling, 83, died...
May 17, 20191 min read
George L. Kelling, a Father of ‘Broken Windows’ Policing, Is Dead at 83
George L. Kelling, a criminologist whose “broken windows” theory, conceived with James Q. Wilson, revolutionized policing in America by...
May 16, 20191 min read
May 6, 20190 min read
James O’Neill: Crime reforms would make NYC more dangerous
The city could get a taste of the bad old days if a series of looming legislative changes aren’t handled properly, NYPD Commissioner...
May 5, 20191 min read
Judge frees gang member, orders him to write report on gun violence
He’s getting to write his wrong. A Brooklyn gangbanger got busted with a loaded, stolen revolver in a caught-on-video incident — but a...
Apr 20, 20191 min read
If Cuomo’s parole board can free terrorist Judith Clark, it’ll free anyone
The decision Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Parole Board to set free onetime domestic terrorist Judith Clark decades ahead of schedule...
Apr 18, 20191 min read
Massachusetts legal pot sales sparking illicit marijuana market
Massachusetts police say they are seeing a thriving underground marijuana market, which is booming four months after the launch of legal...
Apr 13, 20191 min read
Drone buzzing Fenway Park a ‘wake-up call’ for Congress to act
The drone that buzzed Fenway Park is a “wake-up call” to Congress to regulate the unmanned aircraft before there’s a tragedy, two former...
Apr 13, 20191 min read
Apr 8, 20190 min read
Bail reform’s killer mistake
Michael Cammarata and his girlfriend were charged Friday with the murder of Cammarata’s estranged wife Jeanine after the schoolteacher’s...
Apr 6, 20191 min read
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