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A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?
“Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime.
An arrest of a child shook tiny Brasher Falls, a hamlet near the Canadian border, and may have restarted a push in the Legislature to change New York’s law.Credit.Malik Rainey for The New York Times
June 3, 2021Updated 9:43 a.m. ET
At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, N.Y., population about 1,000. He was charged with rape.
How a Sweeping New Proposal Would Limit Police Use of Force in N.Y.
The state’s attorney general seeks to create a “last resort” rule for officers’ use of physical force, and to impose new criminal penalties for those who break it.
Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said the proposal was “an important step in addressing the shortfalls of our criminal justice system.”Credit.Libby March for The New York Times
May 21, 2021
Police officers in New York could only use physical force as a last resort, would have to meet a higher threshold for using deadly force and would face new criminal penalties for violating those guidelines under a sweeping legislative proposal unveiled on Friday.
Wall Street Journal, New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh, chair of the housing committee, is sponsoring a bill that would require residential co-op and condominium boards to provide a written explanation for why they turned down a given buyer. Boards would also need to have a clear and easily accessible application and acceptance policy and let applicants know of their status within 90 days.
While condos could also turn down a buyer for an unspecified reason, they are generally much more permissive to anyone with funds to buy. New York City co-ops, meanwhile, are particularly notorious for an exclusive approval system.