“More than half of Rikers inmates are affected by mental illness and almost 17 percent have a serious mental health diagnosis. Yet throughout New York State, there are 30 mental health courts, which can only serve 140 participants under the current system.”
April 8, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/04/08/opinion-people-living-with-mental-illness-need-treatment-not-jail/“Our elected officials are threatening hard-fought reforms designed to counteract the historic – and present – racism in law enforcement that targets my neighbors and eventually will target my son. Meanwhile, they fail to invest in our communities.”
April 1, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/04/01/opinion-displacing-and-jailing-my-neighbors-does-not-make-me-safer/‘The likely consequences of Hochul’s plan—job loss, family separation, lack of medical and mental health care and drug treatment, and more school absences—would destabilize families and communities and, ultimately, exacerbate the problems she aims to address.’
March 28, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/03/28/opinion-gov-hochuls-bail-plan-will-upend-years-of-reform-while-failing-to-address-safety/A possible COVID outbreak and a hunger strike at the Orange County Correctional Facility (OCCF) were two of the main topics Monday during the first meeting of the City Council’s immigration committee in 2022.
February 28, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/02/28/city-council-hearing-probes-conditions-for-ice-detainees-in-new-york/‘Of the 33 cases we at PROP have seen this year, none entailing a serious charge, 30 involved New Yorkers of color—unsurprising since 90 percent of the more than 7,000 cases we have observed since beginning the Court Monitoring Project in 2014 also involved New Yorkers of color.’
February 7, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/02/07/opinion-da-braggs-well-intentioned-reforms-have-little-impact-while-racist-policing-persists/‘Our new mayor should know solitary confinement does not curtail violence in jails, decarceration does. The people of New York deserve so much better than a limited imagination of this former cop who knows people will die from this policy.’
January 10, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/01/10/opinion-nyc-deserves-better-than-a-mayor-who-supports-solitary-confinement/It’s official: Eric Adams is now the mayor of New York City. Already, our new mayor has been off to an almost dizzying start, part of a pledge to “Get Stuff Done” in his first 100 days. City Limits has been covering City Hall’s new leader for nearly two decades. Here are some highlights.
January 3, 2022 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2022/01/03/new-year-new-mayor-the-eric-adams-file/“From the vantage point of future decades, his many flaws and huge mistakes—all so apparent to us who have watched his day-to-day mayoralty—are unlikely to be as visible as the major decisions he made which, in many cases, were pretty sound and made the city a better place.”
December 31, 2021 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2021/12/31/opinion-at-midnight-a-new-year-begins-and-history-gets-its-hands-on-bill-de-blasio/The 7-day positivity rate for those in the jail system who’ve been tested for the virus was more than 29 percent on Thursday, compared to 23 percent of city residents overall. But those in custody are much less likely to be vaccinated: just 38.4 percent have received both shots, compared to 72.3 percent of all New Yorkers.
December 31, 2021 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2021/12/31/renewed-calls-for-city-to-reduce-jail-population-as-omicron-cases-skyrocket/The nearly 300-page report is the first waterfront plan since Superstorm Sandy, and comes at the end of a year in which the city was rocked by multiple severe weather events.
December 23, 2021 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2021/12/23/nycs-waterfront-plan-maps-out-next-decade-for-citys-coastlines/
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