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In N.Y.C. Jail System, Guards Often Lie About Excessive Force
More than half of the roughly 270 correction officers disciplined over a 20-month period lied to investigators or filed incomplete or inaccurate reports.
The city jail system, including the notorious Rikers Island complex, has long been a source of complaints of brutality by guards. Credit.Richard Perry/The New York Times
April 24, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
One New York City Correction officer struck a jailed person in the face for no legitimate reason. Another put a detainee in a banned chokehold several times. A third failed to stop subordinates from using unnecessary force, according to newly released discipline records.
Professor Karteron is the Director of the Rutgers Constitutional Rights Clinic. Prior to joining Rutgers in September 2016, Professor Karteron was a senior attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union.
At the NYCLU, she litigated complex constitutional cases involving police reform, the school-to-prison pipeline, the First Amendment, and voting rights. While at the NYCLU, Karteron served as lead counsel in one of three cases challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices. Prior to joining the NYCLU, Karteron served as White House Associate Staff Secretary from 2009 to 2010. From 2007 to 2009, she was an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, where she litigated voting rights cases in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
Virtual forum on statewide redistricting planned April 29
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The League of Women Voters presents a virtual hearing on New York state redistricting at 6:30 p.m. April 29 so those from around the state can present testimony on why redistricting matters to them and their communities of interest.
The event will be via Zoom.
Testifiers include:
• LatinoJustice PRLDEF
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Disability Rights New York Although the Census population counts have been delayed, many members of the public are eager to provide input into the new redistricting process. In addition to allowing New Yorkers to provide oral comments, the League will be collecting written comments from the public that will later be shared with the Legislature, the New York State Redistricting Commission, and the public, the league said.
Experts discuss housing discrimination, I-81 project in forum
Elizabeth Billman | Senior Staff Photographer
The I-81 viaduct is a deteriorating section of the highway that New York state plans to remove and replace with a “community grid” of surface level streets.
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Experts and activists discussed the history of housing discrimination and its effects within the city of Syracuse on Thursday in a public forum about the Interstate 81 removal project.
The forum, called Charting Renewal, was hosted by City Scripts, an organization that operates through Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the School of Architecture. City Scripts holds discussions and provides research on the intersection of architectural design and public policy in the U.S.