My organization, the Police Reform Organizing Project, just released “Where’s the Outrage,” the 13th annual report of our Court Monitoring Project. Over the last eight years, PROP volunteers and representatives, numbering over 100 people through the years, have observed more than 7,000 cases in the arraignment parts of New York City’s criminal courts. About 90% of the cases have involved NYPD arrests of New Yorkers of color.
For more than 25 years, beginning in the early 1990s, the murder rate in the United States declined. Remarkable progress in curbing violence, it seemed, was made. By 2019, the