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Eleven months into his mayoralty, Mayor de Blasio described New York City’s jails as broken, “dehumanizing” and in unrelenting crisis, and swore he had a “moral obligation” to fundamentally improve them. Eight years later, de Blasio’s proposed fixes are far from complete, and the jail system is a harsher place for detainees to live and for officers and staff to work.
The Vision Zero Program promised zero deaths by 2024, but trends have been going in the opposite direction.
Hired as someone who had worked as a tireless advocate for homeless New Yorkers, Banks wound up overseeing a historic rise in New York City's homeless shelter population.
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Exclusive video shows a gang of detainees at Rikers beating a woman as an officer tries to break it up, but doesn’t get any backup for two minutes — an...