Interview: Leaving Violence Behind
|
Since getting out of prison Xavier McElrath-Bey has been helping Chicago youth leave their violent lives behind.
Watch NYC Channel 11’s Interview with Daryl Khan
|
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.
Discord Among Parents in Wake of Harlem Raid
|
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.
Law Enforcement Discusses Plans for Harlem Houses After Raid
|
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 Stands by Police Commissioner on Harlem Raids, Promises More
|
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.
Specialized Education for Los Angeles Pregnant, Parenting Teens
|
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 Daryl Khan Talks Harlem Gang Raids with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer
|
JJIE's New York Metro Bureau chief, Daryl Khan, spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer Tuesday about a recent gang raid in Harlem.
Author Documents ‘Voices of Youth Violence’ in Chicago
|
Professor Miles Harvey worked with his students to interview Chicagoans impacted by violence.
At Conference, Experts Examine Incarceration as a Public Health Issue
|
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.
Harlem Residents: We Asked City for Help, We Got a Raid Instead
|
Taylonn Murphy and Derrick Haynes know all about the pain of early graves. Both have lost family in a blood feud between the Manhattanville and Grant Houses in West Harlem where NYPD conducted a massive gang raid yesterday morning. “The terror that the many thousands of people who live there must have felt over these last several years,” NYPD Police Chief William J. Bratton said explaining his presence at the early-morning raid during a press conference. “They’re not fighting over drug turf, it’s just mindless, senseless violence.” However, According Murphy and Haynes, the violence isn’t so mindless and senseless as the commissioner described when you look at it from their point of view.