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2021/02/26 03:38 NEW YORK (AP) A New York City police commander who kneeled with protesters outraged by the death of George Floyd, but was also an architect of the department s forceful response to the demonstrations, said Thursday that he is retiring after nearly four decades on the force. Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed leader, will become a senior adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio, aiding in the city’s coronavirus recovery, the mayor said at a news conference announcing the move. Between the pandemic and the protests, Monahan said, “this was the toughest year that I ve ever spent in law enforcement.”
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Parole reform ‘prioritizes fairness over fear’ (Your Letters)
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
It’s no surprise that we continue to see the same tired arguments, cherry-picked stories and fear-mongering tactics used every time a criminal legal reform emerges. We cannot give in to fear above facts, especially when tackling the racial injustice of mass incarceration.
Here’s the truth: New York’s Parole Board regularly denies release based solely on the one thing that a person can never change, namely their crime of conviction, which does nothing to indicate how much a person has transformed. Worse is that these decisions are defined by stark racial bias. This injustice, coupled with brutal sentencing laws, have created a crisis of aging and death in prison.
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