The Real Scandal at 1 Police Plaza

The Huffington post mentioned and cited our Trends in Misdemeanor Arrests report.

“The real scandal is that the NYPD, under Broken Windows champ Bill Bratton, continues to dole out its racist brand of policing without being accountable to anyone. A recent report by CUNY’s John Jay College outlining the racial skew of policing practices for the last few decades has only reiterated what we and others (like Alex Vitale) have been shouting from the rooftops. The massive increase in low-level arrests target communities of color are directly attributable to Bratton’s low-level-crime-focused Broken Windows foolery. But now the substantive conversation about policies that are at the core of how blacks and Latinos are policed have given way to the style points the NYPD lost with Banks. Forget the Post, almost the entire New York City press corps have run to cover City Hall and 1 Police Plaza like a fifth grade lunchroom. ”