Melissa Mark-Viverito
NYC to Eliminate Bail for Many Non-Violent Offenders
The plan, which offers 3,000 low-level offenders supervised release in lieu of bail, will help “reduce both the financial and human costs of needless incarceration.”
New York City Is Creating a Bail Fund to Help People Get Out of Jail
Tucked away into New York's new budget is a bail fund of $1.4 million, but will it help reduce the population at notoriously brutal city jails like Rikers Island?
A Former Rikers Island Inmate Is Trying to Fix New York's Dysfunctional Jails
Stanley Richards just got appointed to the NYC Board of Correction, which oversees all the city's jails, including the one he used to call home.
NYC City Council Speaker Wants Cops to Stop Arresting People for Petty BS
Melissa Mark-Viverito plans to decriminalize seven minor offenses, meaning you'd get a ticket instead of a court summons for drinking in public or pissing in an alley.
Does New York City Really Need 1,000 More Cops?
Police reformers aren't exactly thrilled about the idea after a year defined by brutality and protests.
Do We Have a Right to Know Why We're Being Searched by Police?
New York City is mulling a "right to know" law after a summer defined by police brutality across America.
New York City Wants US Immigration Officials to Get Lost
Sick of harsh federal policies and gridlock in Washington, NYC officials are set to box out the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency from messing with city prisoners suspected of being in the country illegally.
Seattle Just Started a Nationwide Push for a $15 Minimum Wage
A policy that was once a left-wing pipe dream is set to become reality in the Emerald City, and a handful of liberal metropolises across the country are scrambling to keep pace.