[Tyrese Haspil\Fahim Saleh]
Legal Aid Society: “The statements attributed to ‘unnamed’ NYPD sources are emblematic of a culture within the police department to rush to judgment and strip individual citizens of their fundamental right to a fair and impartial jury.”
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[NYPD\United States District Court]
Corey Stoughton: “This ruling is a missed opportunity to bring much-needed accountability for the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing rules disproportionately against Black and Latinx New Yorkers.”
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[Immigration\”Public Charge Rule”]
Make The Road Litigation team: “As long as the Public Charge Rule remains in effect, immigrants and their families, including those who are U.S. citizens, will be deterred from seeking testing or treatment for COVID-19.”
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[Homelessness\Affordable Housing]
Catherine Trapani, Executive Director, Homeless Services United, Inc: “Homelessness is a complex multifaceted problem that can only be solved with a comprehensive strategy. We need to break down silos and address the root cause of the issue.”
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[Transportation News\MTA Policing]
State Senator Alessandra Biaggi: “Instead of spending $249 million on a new police force, the MTA should increase bus and train service or make much-needed repairs to our ailing public transportation system. At a time when the MTA is already operating in the red, spending millions to hire more police officers is nonsensical and will just contribute to the over-policing of low-income New Yorkers and communities of color.”
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[Incarceration News\New York Bail Reform]
Marie Ndiaye, Supervising Attorney of the Decarceration Project at The Legal Aid Society: “An expansion of the Supervised Release program is key to ensuring that the most people are released pretrial and that those people have access to services and resources. These alternatives to incarceration programs are proven and central to finally closing Rikers Island and reducing the local jail population.”
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[New York News\Criminal Justice Reform]
Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson (Central Park Five) in a joint statement: “In the coming months, we will intensely lobby the state legislature and the governor to enact these common-sense reforms before the end of the coming legislative session. Our state can no longer live with the fact that these techniques can be used to coerce false confessions from people. We will fight to ensure a tragedy like ours will never happen in this state again.”
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