Criminal Justice
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Resource Guide
CUNY investigative team |
These organizations offer help and advice to people fighting a bad rap sheet:
Investigations
The Rap-Sheet Trap: A Q&A on Rap Sheets
CUNY investigative team |
Millions of New Yorkers have mistakes on their criminal “rap sheets” that are extraordinarily difficult to fix. But what is a RAP-sheet? Who gets to see it? How do you see yours?
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: Legislature Falls Down on Fixes
Rebecca Bratek and Terence Cullen |
In Albany, only a handful of legislators have tried to get government to fix its own mistakes.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: One Man Vs. a Multitude of Errors
Briana Duggan |
One of every two people at Rikers Island has mistakes on their record. Frank Murphy is working to correct them, one by one.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: The 7-Year Quest to Fix 1 Skewed Sheet
Laura Bult and Rosa Goldensohn |
Kevin Cleare marched from a police precinct to district attorneys’ offices to courthouses in an effort to clear up mistakes that had somehow burrowed deep into his criminal record history.
arrests
The Rap-Sheet Trap: Mistaken Arrest Records Haunt Millions
CUNY investigative team |
New York’s law enforcement system is great at arresting people, but lousy at keeping track of how the records of those encounters are handled.
UrbaNERD
UrbaNERD: Hate Crimes Up. Don’t Blame Video Games
Ryan Houssein |
Did you miss these fascinating reports about hate crimes, the effect of parental immigration woes on kids and the links (or not) between video games and violence? Of course you did! But UrbaNERD is always here for you.
Economy
City, State Tax Credits Boosted Health in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Jarrett Murphy |
A study finds that state and city increases in the Earned Income Tax Credit improved birth-weight in low-income neighborhoods.
climate change
UrbaNERD: Hooray, it’s Kale Day!
Jasmine Pierce |
A school goes veggie, New York gets hotter and Google becomes an even bigger part of our lives—all that and more in our weekly roundup of ICYMI reads.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: What You Missed While Kanye Was Talking
Jasmine Pierce |
What are the voices in your head telling you? Hopefully it’s to take a look at these articles on school discipline, millennials at home, tax reform, fashion week and the bard of the Harlem Renaissance.
