
The Two Sides of Raise the Age in New York
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It was the tail-end of rush hour on a Thursday in March, and commuters were packed tightly onto a Brooklyn bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Not all of them got out alive.
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It was the tail-end of rush hour on a Thursday in March, and commuters were packed tightly onto a Brooklyn bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Not all of them got out alive.
Since getting out of prison Xavier McElrath-Bey has been helping Chicago youth leave their violent lives behind.
After Reporter Daryl Khan's reporting and subsequent radio interview about the largest raid in NYCPD's history, officials have come forward to formulate and discuss plans for law enforcement in the wake of the arrests.
NEW YORK — The residents of the Manhattanville and Grant Houses in West Harlem have a new touchstone, a specific moment to organize their collective memory, a way to divide their lives. Just a month after the New York Police Department conducted the largest raid in the city’s history, the residents who experienced it have a way to refer to their lives in clear “before and after” terms, like old historical abbreviations B.C. and A.D.
In the Manhattanville and Grant Houses there was life before The Raid and life after The Raid. Life has gone on, but it has changed, residents and activists say.
During a community meeting the NYPD revealed details about last month's raid and laid out its plan in the wake of the arrests.
Mayor Bill de Blasio promised more controversial raids in the city’s public housing projects like the one that swept through the Manhattanville and Ulysses S. Grant Houses.
Beginning when she was 13, Raquelle Miranda had several encounters with the juvenile justice system. She had her first child, Issac, when she was 17.
JJIE's New York Metro Bureau chief, Daryl Khan, spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer Tuesday about a recent gang raid in Harlem.
Professor Miles Harvey worked with his students to interview Chicagoans impacted by violence.
Public health and criminal justice experts from across the country gathered this week to discuss mass incarceration in the U.S. in the context of a public health issue.