Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Department of Labor's allegations that it underpaid 86 female employees at its New York City headquarters, the agency announced. Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 15, 2023

A cellphone video capturing an arrest in Brooklyn, New York, has sparked questions regarding the New York City Police Department’s use of force when a child is present and the city’s child welfare agency’s involvement in custody cases during a parent’s arrest, Bahar Ostadan reports for the Gothamist.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2023

Operations at several New York City nightclubs during Spring 2023 have raised questions about the return of the NYPD-led Multi Agency Response to Community Hotspots (MARCH) raids or a similar taskforce, Adlan Jackson reports for Hell Gate.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A New York City investment advisory firm and its CEO will pay a total of $300,000 to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they violated rules governing the safekeeping of client assets, just three years after being fined for the same issue, the agency said Friday.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2022

Critics of police reform keep claiming that the movement has failed, that it has no new ideas and no momentum. Police reform is vigorous and moving forward with new ideas and new institutions, involving the work of state attorneys general, state legislatures and city councils across the country. They are wrong.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2022

In an effort to tackle staffing shortages, the Chicago Police Department is lowering hiring standards for new recruits by dropping the college credit requirement for some candidates who have two years of military or peace officer experience, or three years in corrections, social services, health care, trades, or education, reports CNN.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

New York City police officials, confronting a lagging vaccination rate among officers even as coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in the city, warned officers that they would discipline unvaccinated personnel who do not wear masks while on duty, reports the New York Times.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Nearly 40 percent of law enforcement agencies nationwide, including the New York City Police Department and Los Angeles Police Department, failed to report their 2021 crime data to the FBI, hamstringing a data set that is the country’s foremost way to understand how crime across the U.S. is changing, reports Axios.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

New York State’s criminal justice data infrastructure fails to meet basic levels of transparency that are critical for evidence-based decision making and general accountability. We must do better—in New York State and beyond—and here’s how: First, let’s rethink the purpose of data collection.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

However, national crime estimates for 2021 are based on unusually low participation by local law-enforcement agencies, with only roughly 65 percent of law-enforcement agencies submitting at least partial data to the new National Incident-Based Reporting System in 2021, compared with 95 percent in recent years.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

New York City’s commitment can also be seen in the major passage of bail reform bills from 2020 that aimed to reduce the use of pretrial detention. New York City’s commitment can also be seen in the major passage of bail reform bills from 2020 that aimed to reduce the use of pretrial detention.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 16, 2022

A new resource produced by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School explores the land­scape of prison and jail over­sight reform since 2018. Few visit­ors gain access to the nation’s correctional facilities, even though they house people for months, years, decades, and, some­times, entire life­times.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Since then, numerous New York City sources have beefed up city security to address calls for protest made by the former president and his supporters. There has been no official news on the determination of the grand jury in the Manhattan DA’s investigation yet.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Participation in the data collection is voluntary, and several large cities provided no data or reported zero hate crimes. For example, New York, Los Angeles and Miami did not give data to the bureau. About two-thirds of law enforcement agencies reported hate crime data in 2021, down from 93 percent participation in 2020.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, to determine if the situation on Rikers met Constitutional minima, and if not, what needed to be done. Roadblocks were everywhere, many erected by the city. The city signed, but has been unable to comply with that agreement. Medieval Conditions. That had me flummoxed.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) is launching a new national Crime Trends Working Group to review and make recommendations for improving crime trend data across the country. CCJ announced the new initiative on Thursday alongside a new study analyzing crime trends in 35 cities. Many have not cooperated.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The New York Police Department has pledged to end its practice of not sharing videos in ongoing investigations with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Eric Umansky reports for ProPublica. The new agreement between the NYPD and CCRB, which was signed Dec. The deal is essentially a good faith agreement between the two agencies.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

New York City’s new police-chief designate Keechant Sewell has been given an early warning of the task she faces as head of the nation’s largest police force. Tackling some of our city’s most pressing public safety issues, especially gun violence, requires full funding for proven, community-based approaches.”

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2021

After receiving 750 complaints “relating to the behavior of NYPD officers at the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer,” the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board has suggested discipline for 65 officers with the New York Police Department accused of misconduct, reports Insider.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2022

New York’s state legislature and Gov. “We need to continue to get feedback from agencies, courts and advocates.” Juvenile Detention. Photo by circulating, via Flickr. Heastie’s office said in a statement. ” Additional Reading: Teen Arrests Fall Sharply in NY: Is Raise the Age Responsible? 21, 2019.

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

It amounts to a “watershed moment” not only in the history of the agency but in the evolution of correctional practices, the Fortune Society said. The department is not aware of any other person in its long history who was previously in DOC custody and went on to serve in a senior leadership position. ”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communication, denying the public and press access to police dispatches for the first time in more than a century, Bahar Ostadan reports for Gothamist.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Homeless individuals who have taken refuge in New York’s subway system to escape chilling temperatures will be moved to shelters under a plan announced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Gov. They are dangerous to themselves and dangerous to New Yorkers.”. Kathy Hochul.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

This month’s horrific shooting in a New York subway train , which left 23 people injured when a man set off a smoke grenade and started firing, served as another tragic reminder of what’s wrong with policing in America. Weeks before the shooting, Adams unveiled his budget proposal to the New York City Council, where proposed $2.5

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

Police agencies can be corrupted from within by “a low work ethic and a curdled cynicism,” warns William Bratton, who served as chief of the Los Angeles and New York City police departments. Bratton says recent attempts in New York to reimpose bail don’t go far enough.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

A former New York prison that once held individuals incarcerated for drug convictions and other crimes will now be converted into a space for cannabis-related businesses to grow and process marijuana, the Wall Street Journal reports. Proponents of the venture say it will bring tax revenue and new jobs to the town.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 1, 2022

National Guard has been called upon for assistance, along with hundreds of police officers from New York City and Philadelphia, to support federal and local authorities, and the Secret Service, reports the Washington Post. 6 insurrection, the D.C. region on March 5.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In a paper published last week , we outline a viable path to a jail population of 2,200, but even a reduction to 3,300 as called for in the city’s current plan to close Rikers would be a meaningful near-term achievement. Luckily, the city has experience in following the data. Elizabeth Glazer. Who Should Be in Jail? Michael Jacobson.

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The Crime Report

MAY 7, 2021

The new ‘tap n’go’ OMNY system unveiled by New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. Though the new contactless systems provide few direct security improvements, riders find them convenient and hygiene-friendly. Still via NY1. Will riders ever feel safe returning to buses and trains?

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

While few departments seemed interested when the program launched in New Orleans in 2016, the number that have signed up since Mr. Floyd’s murder now totals 138, including in New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston. Agencies that want to sign up must train everyone from their chief to their newest recruits.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

The number of general-vending licenses is currently capped at 853 and the number of citywide food vendor permits at 2,900 — but unofficial estimates place the number of people selling merchandise or food on the city’s streets at more than 10,000, according to the Street Vendor Project, an advocacy group that is part of the Urban Justice Center.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

MARCH 5, 2023

When its tow-truck license wasn’t renewed by City of New York, Runway Towing Corp. filed a special proceeding [pursuant to CPLR Article 78] with the New York County State Supreme Court to have that determination reviewed and vacated. v New York City Dept. HEY, MOTHER TRUCKER!

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NewmanFerraraLLP

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Back in 2019, disability-rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transit Authority alleging that the agency had, for decades, renovated subway stations without ensuring that they were accessible to those with physical challenges. city, by far.” city, by far.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

In bigger news from Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up Dobbs v. A New York regulation requires that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. The New York state courts upheld the regulation. Merchant v. The challengers are a group of U.S. The challengers are a group of U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

Delays caused by COVID-19 are largely to blame for overwork and exhaustion among attorneys, say experts, who argue that more money for new public defenders will squander public resources. In New York City, for example, hundreds of lawyers who work for public defense agencies have quit in the past year.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The department recently launched new efforts that promise to enhance data-gathering and provide resources to stem the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis. The nonprofit Urban Indigenous Collective is continuously compiling a database of MMIP in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Insurers are forcing changes to police tactics and policies, mostly at small to medium-size departments throughout the nation, driving reforms that community activists, use-of-force victims and city officials have been unable to achieve, the Washington Post reports. . But smaller departments don’t have similar cushions.

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