Author: newyork-news
Prison justice advocates demanded on Monday that the NYPD do away with its controversial gang database, alleging it contributes to discriminatory policing focusing on Black and Brown New Yorkers. Photograph by Dean Moses 2025 was a nasty yr for legal justice. Executions within the U.S. surged, almost doubling the 2024 numbers, and reaching 47 by year-end, largely pushed by a report 19 executions in Florida, the very best in over 15 years. 2025 noticed an aggressive crackdown on immigration. And it noticed essentially the most radical remake of the federal Division of Justice ever, which for its whole historical past…
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens to a reporter’s query throughout a press convention in Manhattan on Dec. 22, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced on Wednesday that Julia Kerson might be his new Deputy Mayor for Operations. Kerson is presently a deputy to the state director of operations, the place she manages housing, financial improvement, power, surroundings and transportation departments. Beforehand, she labored on the MTA the place she helped lead main tasks together with Section 2 of the Second Avenue Subway. She additionally served on town’s COVID-19 Response Workforce, serving to to ascertain a resort program for healthcare…