Sentences with phrase «police reform groups»

But the decision drew immediate heat from police reform groups, many of whom worked to get de Blasio elected when he ran on a campaign of reforming the relationship between police and communities of color.

A source says BerlinRosen told the police reform group that the firm could no longer advise the mayor and keep them as a client because it was a conflict.

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But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

The police organisation has typically been decidedly hostile towards the home secretary, after her police reform fell foul of officers» lobby groups.

Earlier today, Bratton's opposition to Cuomo's plan was criticized by Russell Simmons, the hip - hop mogul and social activist who is a longtime friend and supporter of Cuomo, and by the Justice League NYC, a coalition group that led some of the protests following the Eric Garner decision, and met with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss police reform issues.

WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday met with a group of political heavyweights who back immigration reform — including Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — to assure them he...

A group of police reform advocates were escorted out of Chambers for repeatedly interrupting Bratton, shouting their distain for the commissioner and telling Council members the city doesn't want or need new officers.

Take the group, Communities United for Police Reform.

The governor said he appointed the group because lawmakers failed to enact reforms last year and is dismantling it because the Legislature has now passed new laws to toughen bribery prosecutions and to establish a new campaign finance policing office.

A group that NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito set up concluded she should put two controversial police reform bills to a vote, but she passed on both.

The group hosted a town hall in Sunset Park on Friday night in which activists and residents grilled Public Advocate Letitia James and acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on their positions on broken windows, affordable housing, public housing and other police reform - oriented issues.

The coalition includes anti-police brutality group Why Accountability, Queens Neighborhoods United, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Grito de Sunset Park, the Police Reform Organizing Project, New Yorkers Against Bratton, Mothers Cry for Justice and Families for Freedom.

Groups such as Communities United for Police Reform and the Coalition to End Broken Windows say that minority neighborhoods are already over-policed as evidenced by the deaths of people such as Eric Garner and Akai Gurley during interactions with the pPolice Reform and the Coalition to End Broken Windows say that minority neighborhoods are already over-policed as evidenced by the deaths of people such as Eric Garner and Akai Gurley during interactions with the policepolice.

It should be celebrated,» said Jose Lopez, of the immigrant advocacy groups Make the Road New York and Communities United for Police Reform.

Torres was one of several elected officials and police - reform groups — which included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council members Brad Lander, Carlos Menchaca, and Andy King, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, Communities United for Police Reform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the informpolice - reform groups — which included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council members Brad Lander, Carlos Menchaca, and Andy King, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, Communities United for Police Reform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the informreform groups — which included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council members Brad Lander, Carlos Menchaca, and Andy King, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, Communities United for Police Reform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the informPolice Reform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the informReform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the information.

«By any measurement, «Broken Windows» is racially biased policing, and we are devoted to tarnishing [Bratton's] legacy,» said Robert Gangi, director of the Police Reform Organizing Project advocacy group.

The legislation is being supported by some of the same groups that helped to push de Blasio into office, such as Communities United for Police Reform.

«Today's reforms allow our hardworking police officers to concentrate their efforts on the narrow group of individuals driving violent crime in New York City.

He has been endorsed by the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform parties, as well as police and blue collar unions and the Good Government Club, a group of «Italian - American businesses and professionals acting in a nonpartisan capacity to advance good government.»

Police moved in, and 21 people were arrested, including several leaders of the reform group Citizen Action, and the president of the New York state chapter of the National Organization for Women, Zenaida Mendez.

The NYPD inspector general proposal is part of a group of policing reforms called the Community Safety Act, which includes measures requiring officers to identify themselves and laws designed to curb racial profiling and unlawful searches.

The groups lauded reforms to standards, assessments, funding equity and access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, but lashed into the Harkin - Enzi draft for rolling back the federal government's role in policing states» education goals:

And she has written five books, including «Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform» (2001) and «The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn» (2003), an influential examination of the censorship of school books by left - and right - wing pressure gGroups Restrict What Students Learn» (2003), an influential examination of the censorship of school books by left - and right - wing pressure groupsgroups.

offers an artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization — a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing.

Meanwhile, Queen's Park has been consulting with police, concerned community groups, civil libertarians, the Ontario Human Right Commission and the general public with the aim of introducing a reform of carding later this fall.