EDITORIAL: Information opens doors to reform | The Daily Gazette
SECTIONS
Shares0
This is the kind of information that, when released to the public, can lead to real change.
By the same token, it’s the kind of information, when kept from the public, leads to a continuation of the status quo.
For victims, particularly those targeted more by race than others, it could finally lead to fairness and eventually, justice.
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Monday updated its database of misconduct reports for the New York City police department (NYPD).
The report contains more than 279,600 misconduct complaints from prior to 1985 right up through last month.
Created: May 02, 2021 11:39 PM
TROY - Social justice activists are fighting back in the Collar City. Later this week, the Troy City Council is expected to vote to spend a quarter of a million dollars to increase the size of the city police department by six officers.
On Sunday night, activists held a Zoom town hall meeting at which they sent a message to city officials, their believe the money would be better spent some place else.
The city s plan to increase the size of the police force by six officers is part of the response to Governor Cuomo s Executive Order 23, issued last June, requiring municipalities to examine the policies and procedures of their police department and make recommendations for future changes to address police violence, biased policing, and systemic racism.
As Broadway producers start making plans to reopen their shows following the COVID-19 pandemic, several leading doctors recommend requiring all theatergoers to provide proof of being vaccinated.
SHARE:
At a recent New York City mayoral forum on policing and community safety, candidates were asked for two things they would do as mayor to ensure that police who kill, brutalize or harass people are fired. Maya Wiley, the first to answer, began as if reading off her own resume. “As someone who has been a civil rights lawyer my whole career, and racial justice advocate, and has worked on a criminal justice initiative in post-apartheid South Africa and chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board – including getting the Daniel Pantaleo case over to the police department with charges, and fighting to hold on to civilian prosecution of that case – we have to do a couple of things,” Wiley said, in not quite one breath but certainly one run-on sentence.