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Stop and frisk hasn’t disappeared
Bill de Blasio’s vocal criticism of the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped vault him to victory in 2013. In a city of a million issues, it became
the issue. Now Maya Wiley – de Blasio’s former counsel, who has many of his allies on her team – is hoping to make it an issue again, twice targeting Eric Adams for defending the tactic in the first official Democratic primary mayoral debate Thursday night. Adams, a retired cop, called stop and frisk “a great tool” in an interview with CBS New York last year and said that the police force under Bloomberg was simply using it wrong. Adams has been saying the same thing for a decade – while also loudly, proudly, criticizing the racist
Could the Barron political dynasty be overthrown?
Charles Barron is vying to win his wife Inez Barron’s New York City Council District 42 seat, which she is leaving this year due to term limits. The majority-Black district encompases East New York and its subsections such as Spring Creek and Starrett City. Charles Barron previously won the same seat in 2001. His wife won the Assembly seat in 2008 and they swapped seats when Charles was term-limited out of the City Council in 2013, with Inez running successfully to replace him and Charles then replacing her in the Assembly.
But some have grown tired of the Barrons’ seat swapping, particularly local politicos who say the district is in need of new leadership, pointing to the neighborhood’s high rates of poverty and unemployment, and a recent upward trend in shootings as some of the most pressing issues in the district. Others remember the iconoclastic, radical couple known for generating their share of controversy, for their
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A group of seven Democratic candidates running for the New York City Council District 20 seat in Flushing, Queens, have come together to form a coalition against Queens Democratic Party-backed candidate Sandra Ung.
The coalition includes Democrats across the ideological spectrum. There’s John Choe, a former chief of staff to state Sen. John Liu, who heads the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce and was backed by the Working Families Party; Anthony Miranda, a retired NYPD sergeant who chairs the National Latino Officers Association; and Neng Wang, the former head of the Chinese American Planning Council who has been endorsed by the New York City Police Benevolent Association.
Report: Bronx Judge Orders Alleged NYC Synagogue Vandal Released
3 May 2021
A Bronx judge reportedly ordered an alleged synagogue vandal released on supervised release Sunday, changing course regarding another jurist’s previous decision to hold him on $20,000 bail.
According to the
New York Post:
The suspect, 29-year-old Jordan Burnette, was granted supervised release by Judge Tara Collins in Bronx Criminal Court hours after he was ordered held on bail on 42 charges stemming from his alleged 11-day crime spree, said Patrice O’Shaughnessy, a spokeswoman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. Under New York state law, a suspect hit with Burnette’s charges cannot be held on bail.