Sometimes the fight’s over classroom setting, sometimes over a child eating their meals through a straw. Often it involves lawyers, frantic parents and a strained school system.
The state’s approval rate for parole applications has been sliced in half since 2005. Inmates convicted of high-profile crimes face almost insurmountable barriers—because of politics, not the penal code.
Sex trafficking is the target of increased awareness and enforcement. But other forms of the human trade—which might be more common—are proving hard to publicize or prosecute.
While some statistics are disputed, the high rates of teacher attrition at charter schools raise questions about whether even the most successful ones can maintain quality amid the churn.
Each year, nearly 200 deaths in New York City are categorized as “events of undetermined intent.” These are cases in which the city’s medical examiner cannot determine whether the person died of natural causes, accident, suicide or murder.
When the WIC program took steps to get more fresh produce into recipients’ diets, the results were promising. But the initiative is being held back by administrative flaws and, yes, a political battle over white potatoes.
“The article that was written against the Foundation for a Drug Free World is utterly biased, an attempt to undermine a positive non-profit and an attempt to gain publicity by creating false controversy.”
After the 2010 controversy, 25 firms signed a code of conduct for dealing with the state’s pension funds. Most appear not to have made the disclosures necessary to show they are playing by the rules.
A judge recently found one prosecutor’s conduct so bad he banned her from his courtroom forever. But she’ll face no internal discipline from her office, which lacks a formal system for punishing rule violations.
Elected on a platform of police reform, the de Blasio administration has cut arrests for some low-level drug crimes, but busted more people for the controversial charge of trespassing.
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