Eric Adams's Moral Panics
To defeat a politics of right-wing reaction organized around criminalization, the left needs to put real power behind the principle of abolition.
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To defeat a politics of right-wing reaction organized around criminalization, the left needs to put real power behind the principle of abolition.
Last week, Mayor Adams used one of his press conferences to grossly mischaracterize and criminalize New Yorkers who observe and document NYPD abuse (a
So far, 22.8% of calls for mental health crises in a handful of precincts have gone to these unarmed first responders.
Plainclothes unit and enthusiasm for facial recognition technology are worrying civil rights advocates
The Party for Socialism and Liberation convened a speakout in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after Eudes Pierre, a 26-year-old Black man, was shot 10 times and killed in the neighborhood by NYPD officers