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A Special Unit to Prosecute Police Killings Has No Convictions
The case of Daniel Prude’s death is the latest example of the challenges prosecutors face when they try to hold police officers accountable.
A protest erupted in Rochester, N.Y., on Tuesday night after it was announced that the officers involved in Daniel Prude’s death would not face charges.Credit.Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021
More than five years ago, Andrew M. Cuomo, the governor of New York, signed an executive order to address a persistent concern: Police officers were rarely held accountable for killing unarmed people. Often, those who died were Black.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Revives Push For State Commission To Investigate Prosecutors
arrow Assemblyman N. Nick Perry at a criminal justice reform press conference in Brooklyn in 2020. Courtesy Assemblyman N. Nick Perry s Instagram
A new bill in Albany could resurrect hopes for an independent agency dedicated to investigating prosecutorial misconduct. The proposed commission would give New Yorkers a direct avenue for filing complaints against prosecutors and make its misconduct findings and investigative proceedings public. It would also send dismissal recommendations to the governor for prosecutors with substantiated misconduct.
Assemblyman N. Nick Perry, a Democrat representing East Flatbush and Canarsie, introduced the legislation earlier this month. “So many people have been wrongfully convicted and, alarmingly, so many of these wrongful convictions have been blamed on misconduct by the prosecutors,” Perry said. “It is extremely important that whe
Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout from COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself
Published: January 22, 2021
The very first executive order Joe Biden signed upon becoming the forty-sixth President of the United States was the national mask mandate he promised at the Democratic National Convention back in August. The order makes face coverings and social distancing mandatory on all federal property and a legal requisite for interstate commerce. The move signals a clear intent on the part of his administration to double down on the “authoritarian” emergency measures – as described in a recent paper from Oxford University – implemented in the wake of the pandemic crisis and sets the stage for what may be the greatest threat to human rights and civil liberties the world has ever known.
COVID 'detention camps?' State government proposal revealed | 09 Jan 2021 | A New York State-sponsored proposal that demands detention camp for anyone identified as a "case, contact or carrier" of a contagious disease. The New York State Assembly bill in question is called Bill A416 and is sponsored by a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, N. Nick Perry. As of