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Cops Want Crime Watchers on 34 Bushwick Blocks
The new block associations could address many issues but would emphasize crime prevention. Some neighbors question whether crime is truly a threat.
LGBTQ Group Reboots as Hate Worries Grow
After scandal scuttled the Bronx Pride Center, a new entity is taking shape amid persistent concerns about the hostile atmosphere that confronts for the borough's gays.
Bed-Stuy Eyes Block Watch to Stop Violence
Public Finally to Have Access to Hyper-Local Crime Stats
Newly signed legislation will correct a blind-spot in the NYPD's crime-report transparency, one we reported on last year.
Pushing Cops to Consider Kids When Arresting Parents
While some New York police agencies already avoid having kids witness a parent's bust and take steps to ensure care after Mom or Dad are detained, advocates say want more done to limit the effect of arrests and incarceration on children
Top Issue in Brownsville: Fear of the Teens, Fear for the Teens
Ask people on Blake Avenue what's their No. 1 campaign concern, and they'll say "crime." But their worry seems to be less about violence and more about whether young people are on the wrong track.
Advocates Pan City's Record on Disabilities
They claim policies from special ed to employment assistance to the Taxi of Tomorrow failed to increase opportunities for the disabled. City Hall says its reforms made a difference.
Disabled Say Non-Mayoral Agencies Also Fail
While advocates for the disabled have harsh criticism for Mayor Bloomberg, they also fault other government agencies not controlled by City Hall—especially the transit system.
Undocumented Immigrants Still In Post-Storm Limbo
Plans for how the city will spend federal aid are taking shape. The governor is discussing a massive buyout program in coastal areas. But some victims of the storm are still stuck without basic help.
Guns for Cash at Brooklyn Church
An operable handgun or assault rifle will net you $200 if you bring it—in a plastic bag—to a gun buyback event in Vinegar Hill this weekend.
Innocent of Crime, Tainted by Time: Exonorees Struggle
After years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, New York's exonerees are released into the free world—where a host of challenges confront them despite their innocence.
Growing Concern Over Broken Adoptions
For more than a decade national child welfare policy has encouraged timely adoptions as way to stabilize the lives of kids in foster care. But the system is challenged when a child's new home proves to be a bad fit.
Adoption Numbers in Question
Sixteen years ago the federal government put new pressure on states to facilitate adoptions. But it never bothered to track how many of those adoptions fail.
Adoption: From an Option to a Mandate
Adoption is a good outcome for many children in foster care. But not every adoptive parent-child combination is meant to be.
One Foster Child's Choice? Not To Be Adopted
S.D. held out hope that her parents would bring her home. That never happened. But avoiding adoption was her choice—and it was a wise one, her lawyer says.
Solutions to Broken Adoptions May Lie in Gray Areas
While there's disagreement among child welfare officials and advocates about all we can do to prevent broken adoptions, there is consensus on a few common-sense steps.
Behind Brooklyn's High Hate-Crime Numbers
A large population, demographic diversity and prosecutors' commitment to punishing bias are factors. Some believe too much crime—and others too little—falls into the category of “hate."
At the Corner Deli, a Yemeni Immigrant Saga
Every time you buy a beer or a lottery ticket at a bodega run by Mohamed Mohamed or one of his countrymen, you tap into a story of ethnic succession and a struggle to reconcile one culture with another.
Assault Weapon? Sporting Rifle? A Big Seller by Any Name
If it sometimes seems that advocates and opponents of gun control are speaking different languages, it's because they are—at least when it comes to guns like the one used in Newtown.
Protect Immigrant Work Rights—-By Making them Owners
Statistics show immigrant workers frequently suffer wage theft. One solution pioneered by a Brooklyn center is to launch cooperatives where the workers are also owners.
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Doubts on Hate-Crime Laws Amid Rash of Anti-Gay Crimes - Jarrett Murphy
Some suspect the current bias-crime statutes aren't strong enough to deter or punish violent bigots. Others wonder if extra jail time is the best way to change mindsets.
Stop and Frisk Coverage Nominated - Jarrett Murphy
We're up for an award from that National Association of Black Journalists.
Gun Violence in NYC: The Killer You Avoid Could Be Yourself - Jarrett Murphy
While New York's gun murder rate is lower than most big cities', it's our low firearm suicide rate that makes gun violence half as likely in the city than in the United States as a whole.
Bloomberg Invokes Terrorism in Case Against NYPD Reforms - Jarrett Murphy
The mayor suggested that Council proposals could lead to more murders, create deadly confusion among police officers and perhaps even make it easier for terrorists to strike the city.
Outside the NYPD, Inspectors General Are Everywhere - Jarrett Murphy
Thirty-three city agencies currently have inspectors general. So do the CIA, Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency.
What Mayoral Candidates Say About the Disabled: Not Much - Jarrett Murphy
We asked people running for mayor how they'd make the city work better for disabled New Yorkers. So far, only one responded.
New York's Top Judge Echoes Our 2007 Bail Investigation - Jarrett Murphy
Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman called for reforms of the bail system, including limiting the use of financial bail to detain defendants in non-violent cases.
NYC Pensions Rethinking Guns; NRA Foresees Disaster - Jarrett Murphy
The city's largest retirement fund is looking at shedding gun stocks. The NRA, meanwhile, says the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy shows what a world without gun control.
Find the Gun Merchant Near You! - Jarrett Murphy
Use our database to learn more about the 1,875 federally licensed firearms dealers in New York State.
City Limits Magazines’ Archive Now All Digital, Accessible - City Limits
With a grant from the New York Community Trust, our 36-year archive is now digital (and fully accessible for free) online.
How the Gun Industry Got Rich Stoking Fear About Obama - Jarrett Murphy
This article is reported in collaboration with the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund, which has also supported City Limits’s coverage of policing in New York.
Prison Abuse Investigation Wins National Award - City Limits
Our magazine's May 2011 report on staff sexual abuse of women inmates in New York State prisons won a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the national Society of Professional Journalists.
City Limits Criminal Justice Reporting Honored - Jarrett Murphy
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency recognized our coverage of staff sexual misconduct in New York's prisons and the housing challenges facing former inmates.
Ruling Touches But One Part of Church-City Relationship - Jarrett Murphy
A policy news round-up: Churches still get city funding and tax breaks, housing vouchers show mixed results and the West Indian Day Parade episode turns attention to the rules cops live by—or are supposed to, anyway.
Is NYC Going Solo on Solitary Confinement? - Jarrett Murphy
A report questions whether increasing the number of solitary cells in the city's jails is a wise move. Our weekly round-up of policy reports also looks at new findings on climate change, living wages and community colleges.
Who Are the Victims of the Ticket-Fixing Scandal? - Jarrett Murphy
Missing from the debate about whether it was right to indict cops for fixing tickets: A look at just how many tickets New York City writes.
Report: Shift in Child Welfare Policy Undermined by Budget Moves - Helen Zelon
The IBO depicts a profound change at the Administration for Children's Services, with preventive offerings replacing foster care as the agency's go-to policy. But questionable budget decisions undercut the impact of the shift.
Seen Here First: The NYPD's Pot Play - Jarrett Murphy
New York police officials last week distanced themselves from an arrest tactic that nabbed small-time pot users who obeyed when cops asked them to empty their pockets. City Limits broke that story in 2009.
Police Conduct at Parade Unlikely to Get Board's Review - Kiera Feldman
A councilman and top Public Advocate aide's claim that they were harassed by police needs sorting out. Could be a job for the Civilian Complaint Review Board. But it probably won't be.
Mideast Politics Weigh On Park Slope Co-op - Leah Robinson
Amid a push to ban Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Co-op, opponents of the move are scrutinizing the organizations behind the boycott movement.
CONVERSATIONS/OPINONS
The Adoption Subsidy: Good Intentions Unfortunate Realities
Despite alarming cases of abuse, the child welfare system still lacks strict safeguards to make sure parents who earn fees to care for children actually provide a nurturing home.
School Gun Violence Solutions from Kids
Conservatives want armed guards in the schools. Some liberals want to call in the National Guard if school violence threatens. What do those at risk—kids in school—say we should do after Newtown?
Report Faults NYPD's Treatment of Some Groups
This writer says NYPD tactics and attitudes unjustly target blacks, Latinos, gays, transgender people, vendors and sex workers.
To Avoid Broken Adoptions, Avoid Breaking Families
No one's sure how often adopted children end up back in foster care. What is certain is that blood relationships are often too deep or complex for court action to sever them.
The Subway Ad that Calls Me a ‘Savage’
A Muslim New Yorker says the ads by an anti-Islam group are absolutely legal–and absolutely immoral.
MULTIMEDIA
Design Deficiencies and Lost Votes
In 2010, tens of thousands of votes in New York did not count due to overvotes — the invalid selection of more than one candidate. This report demonstrates how the lack of adequate overvote protections disproportionately affected the state's poorest communities, suggests commonsense reforms, and examines national implications.
For Their Own Good
Hundreds of teens are in jail for crimes for which adult offenders would walk. Can the Probation Dept. reform its ways?
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