The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long?
At public hearings, New York State seeks to end licenses for nuclear plant supplying much of the city’s electricity
In which we navigate the multiple databases used by New York City courts and update our summonses map to include data from community courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan
What’s the right punishment for drinking a beer in the park? Or staying there past 1 a.m.? For Brooklyn Judge Alex Calabrese, it’s whatever helps the offender and the community get to a better place.
As a record number of lawsuits against the city’s police move into litigation, the price tag is $150 million a year and growing. Where will it stop?
The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed.
This week we launched a map showing where the NYPD is giving out pink slips for minor legal infractions, such as public drinking and riding a bike on a sidewalk. Now we would like to hear your opinion. Does the NYPD issue too many summonses or are pink slips necessary to keep order in the city?
Are the police violating New Yorkers’ civil rights one summons at a time? What the geography of 350,000 pink slips in New York City reveals.
Supporters of three imprisoned Russian members of the punk-rock performance group Pussy Riot were arrested today in New York City. Many wore masks in solidarity with the artists, who were sentenced on Friday morning to two years in prison for performing a “punk prayer” protesting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s central church. The members of […]
The limited options for targets of demands for private information
