New York Dems Want To Roll Back Bail Reforms. Not So Fast, Says NYC Comptroller.
Bail reforms did not lead to higher crime, and in fact should be applied more uniformly, report finds.
Bail reforms did not lead to higher crime, and in fact should be applied more uniformly, report finds.
Eric Adams says you may have to upgrade your phone if you want to record the police, because you'll need to do so from a distance.
The city's private employer vaccine mandate is not just an overreaching policy; it's now a completely nonsensical and ineffective one.
Ed Mullins, known for combatively defending bad police behavior and the drug war, charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice.
Firearm seizures are ineffective, and gun possession arrests are frequently unjust.
Facial recognition software can secretly surveil and is subject to error.
Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing.
Despite shifting enforcement away from cops, NYC is still ticketing the dickens out of New York's street-food sellers.
Where omicron plummets, COVID-19 restrictions on our pandemic-damaged children need to end. Let's throw 'em a big party!
The traditional case for rent control isn't made any more convincing by a Democratic Socialists of America dance number.
Phony outrage is used to deflect from bad policy decisions.
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams quashes a micro-rebellion among some teachers union members, but school closures Monday hit a record for 2021-22.
The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
The best thing you could say about Bill de Blasio was that he was good for a laugh.
A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate.
This Brooklyn-bred New York Post columnist and her family are fleeing to Florida due to bad education policy and COVID mismanagement.
The president rightly points out that the federal government has sloshed billions of dollars to make K-12 schools even safer than they already were. Yet many are about to close.
When government does things, most everything costs more and is lower quality.
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
Plus: A reminder to Bill de Blasio of what "incentive" really means
The mayor also said that children aged 5–11 will have to be vaccinated in order to go to restaurants or engage in "high-risk" extracurricular activities.
As the U.S. reaches new terrible milestones in overdose deaths, a harm reduction system that has proven itself elsewhere finally launches where it’s needed most.
Eric Adams thinks he can give the police more power to hunt for guns without making innocent minority men the inevitable target.
A Manhattan public middle school is asking students to segregate themselves next week as part of a "two day celebration" against segregation.
The Open Restaurants Program spared much of New York's restaurant industry from the ravages of COVID-19 shutdowns.
Higher cigarette taxes will fuel greater black-market activity and more confrontations with the police.
A new bill introduced by Council Member Ben Kallos would require landlords to provide broadband internet. It would also forbid them from passing on the costs of internet service to tenants.
De Blasio should honor expectations of medical privacy, not threaten government retribution for those who make choices he dislikes.
Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.
How big is the defection from government schools in the country's largest district? That's for politicians to know, and you to find out.
Ed Mullins is innocent until proven guilty—a distinction he often didn’t extend to others.
Those much-maligned single-use plastics had a brief reprieve during the pandemic. Now they're back in politicians' sights.
One at Rikers, one at a nearby jail barge, marking 12 deaths this year
The lawsuit argues the mandate leads to discrimination based on content of speech and type of speaker.
"If you would have told me when I was 12 years old, I would run this organization, I would have said you were crazy."
Media persists in pediatric scare stories even while the country's largest dataset shows tiny yet still-declining rates, including among the needlessly quarantined.
Formal sentences cover for informal penalties including crowding, poor sanitation, beatings, and rape.
Everybody has to wear masks except the rich and famous, apparently.
The movie tells the story of an immigrant community coming together to forge its own future through commerce.
Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.
Brooklyn elementary loses one-third of its student population and eight teachers, as the first 2021–22 enrollment numbers straggle in.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
Complying with the layers of COVID-19 restrictions on travel and human interaction is exhausting even for the vaccinated.