Miller also noted that only 69 of the 976 complaints made against individual officers last June and July named SRG officers, which he suggested “may be due to the advanced training SRG officers receive in team tactics for arrests that are specifically geared to reduce injuries to those being arrested and to the police officers arresting them.” Yet the SRG was heavily involved in some of the most brutal repression of protests in the wake of Floyd’s killing last summer, including the violent arrests of at least 263 people police had trapped in the streets at a June 4 protest in the Bronx. Last month, The Intercept published a series of SRG training documents that reflect the unit’s heavy-handed approach to the policing of protest: coaching cops on tactical maneuvers and mass arrest scenarios, as well as providing additional training for SRG’s distinctive armor-clad bike squads.
Report: Students lacked access to devices for learning PUBLISHED 2:44 PM ET May. 05, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:44 PM EDT May. 05, 2021
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More than 200,000 students over the last school year lacked access to devices needed to learn remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released Wednesday by the New York Civil Liberties Union found.
The report compiled survey data from school districts across the state, comprising 2.6 million students. The findings show hundreds of thousands of students, nearly one in 10, lacked access to devices to access learning and remote classroom instruction.
The survey data gleaned from the State Education Department also found students of color were more likely to be impacted by remote learning issues.
Survey: Many NY students began year without device, internet
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
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FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Anna Louisa, 18, holds her school-issued laptop at the Lower East Side Preparatory School in New York. About 8% of New York s public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the school year, and about 6% lacked adequate internet access, survey results released Wednesday, May 5, 2021, show.John Minchillo/AP
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) About 8% of New York’s public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the school year, and about 6% lacked adequate internet access, survey results released Wednesday show.
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Amnesty International has launched an innovative crowdsourcing project to help uncover the magnitude of the use of facial recognition technology in New York City.
Decode Surveillance NYC will see thousands of digital volunteers from all over the world virtually descend on New York to map CCTV and other public cameras that can be used with facial recognition software to track people across the city. The ambitious project is the latest for the ground-breaking Amnesty Decoders, which sees a global community of digital activists participate in research through crowdsourcing data-driven projects. By harnessing the power of volunteers across the world, Decode Surveillance NYC will attempt to show that it is virtually impossible for New Yorkers to go about their daily lives, without risking being tracked by facial recognition.
The revelation of the sharp disparity along racial and ethnic lines white officers were accused in 61% of the cases, Blacks in 14% and Latinos in 23% comes at a time when the NYPD is touting its increasing diversity and white cops are now in the minority.