The passage of the bills, known collectively
as the
Criminal Justice Reform Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade - old policing policy that treats public disorder as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding criminal court warrants for minor infr
Criminal Justice Reform
Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade - old policing policy that treats public disorder
as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding
criminal court warrants for minor infr
criminal court warrants for minor
infractions.