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A new online poll of NJ voters suggests politics is bigger than race in explaining vaccine hesitancy, with nearly half of GOP refusing

Hispanic voters, who may account for a fifth of turnout, are considered to be up for grabs.

Hispanic voters, who may account for a fifth of turnout, are considered to be up for grabs.

Black arrest rate in Capital Region remains high; progress sought, no easy solution seen | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Share1 CAPITAL REGION — Any sense of progress in increasing racial equity in the criminal justice system is tempered by the fact that there’s a very long way to go to reach this goal. Across New York state as a whole and in the Capital Region, Black people are arrested at a far greater rate than white people relative to their percentage of the population, Hispanic people at a somewhat greater rate and Asians at a much lower rate. Black adults are arrested in New York si...

NYPD's Enforcement Of Marijuana Laws Still Plagued By Extreme Racial Disparities arrow Protesters calling for marijuana legalization in Albany in 2019 Hans Pennink/AP/Shutterstock On March 4th of last year, Fitzroy Gayle was stopped by a plainclothes police officer in his neighborhood of Canarsie, Brooklyn. Video shows the 20-year-old, who is Black, begging to know why he was being detained. Moments later, close to a dozen NYPD officers sprinted toward the young man, tackling him to the ground as he cried out that he did nothing wrong. An NYPD spokesperson later claime...