Chatter on law-enforcement message boards suggests that what was applied to Eric Garner was not a chokehold but a “carotid restraint,” a police tactic gaining new acceptance nationwide despite past controversy.
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.
Reducing income inequality depends on a sound, fair social safety net—something the city has not had in 20 years.
A movement in Brownsville to recruit volunteer crime-spotters would be one of several citizen patrols and blockwatch efforts active in New York, despite low crime and a massive police force.
Some welfare foes fear the progressive mayor will reverse years of declining rolls. Critics of welfare reform hope he does just that.
The experience of California, Germany and Japan is clear, the author argues: Close nuclear plants and CO2 emissions soar as other power sources fill the gap.
Online tools let you see which companies release which toxic substances in your neighborhood and borough. There’s good news and bad news in the numbers.
Documents obtained by City Limits outline a litany of obstacles that the city’s pilot project has so far been unable to surmount.
Residents are divided over whether tweaks to the high-intensity policing program are cause for concern or celebration.
Five of the seven electric cars in the city’s taxi and for-hire fleet are idle, but Luis Castro is still making battery-powered stops in the Bronx.
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