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A Nurturing Network Grows In Bushwick

Nekoro Gomes | July 13, 2009

Amid a citywide plan to support a new model for child welfare, a foster parent serves as a recruiter and role model in her neighborhood.

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

Sean Gardiner | July 5, 2009

Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city’s public discourse these days, nearly a quarter of a million people in New York City have been arrested for drugs over the past two years.

Criminal Justice

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

Sean Gardiner | July 5, 2009

On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of a witness who had been threatened by the dealers’ boys. After that, things were different.

Justice

Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1

Sean Gardiner | July 5, 2009

Sometime in 1975, Colombian drug dealers, who were already well established in the world’s marijuana market with their high-grade Colombian Gold, wrested control of the cocaine importation business from Cuban crime organizations operating in Florida and New York.

Criminal Justice

Heroin: From the Civil War to the 70s, and Beyond

Sean Gardiner | July 5, 2009

The heroin story of the 1990s was ignored, by and large, until it became so popular that some among the white celebrity set developed addictions that subsequently received a good deal of publicity.

Justice

Ecuadorians In NYC Mull A Migration Home

Andrew Silverstein | June 29, 2009

Ecuadorian immigrants living in New York weigh incentives to return home amid the city’s economic downturn.

Bronx

Second In Command: The Veteran's Case

Jarrett Murphy | June 8, 2009

In his comeback run for public advocate, Mark Green is trading on his earlier stint in the post while acknowledging the city has changed. The fourth in a five-part series on the race for the Number Two spot in city government.

Citywide

After 'Rock' Reform: System Still Needs Help

Demetria Irwin | May 11, 2009

The state’s drug laws are improved — but prisons still have ‘a huge feeder system called the criminal justice system in the state of New York,’ says John Jay Prof. Todd Clear in this Q&A.