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The News Leaders Association announced this week that the ProPublica series “The NYPD Files” won its First Amendment Award. The award recognizes the best journalism advancing Freedom of Information principles or overcoming significant resistance to the application of the First Amendment. The series, which investigated abuse and impunity inside the New York City Police Department, started with one question: How does accountability for NYPD officers really work? It became an unprecedented examination of how a veneer of civilian oversight belies the reality that America’s largest police force largely polices itself. ProPublica’s Eric Umansky, Joaquin Sapien, Topher Sanders, Derek Willis, Moiz Syed, Mollie Simon, Lena Groeger, Joshua Kaplan and Lucas Waldron contributed to the project. ....
This column was originally published in Not Shutting Up, a newsletter about the issues facing journalism and democracy. Sign up for it here. In recent months, the city and state of New York have moved to decriminalize prostitution. State lawmakers repealed a law that made “loitering” to sell sex a crime. District attorneys in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens announced that while they would continue to prosecute pimps, sex traffickers and “johns” who pay for sex, they would be referring men and women involved in prostitution to social service agencies. The DAs dropped thousands of cases of unlicensed massage, prostitution and loitering dating back to the 1980s. ....
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