Tag: misdemeanors
Five days after Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD slowdown has ended, the city’s courthouses have indeed seen a “striking increase” in activity, reports the New York Daily News. The paper reports: “Low-level offenses are coming back through the system,” said Catherine Griffin, arraignments supervisor for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. “Two […]
The NYPD’s slowdown, which has resulted in a more than 90% drop in summonses for low-level offenses and parking tickets from this time last year, is costing the city $10 million dollars in revenue a week. Though NYPD union heads deny that the slowdown is related to the NYPD’s ongoing clash with Mayor Bill de […]
Crime in New York has gone down, but misdemeanor arrests are on the rise, concludes a comprehensive report [PDF] that culls through New York state and city arrest data from the past three decades. The New York Times reported on the 114-page study, put out by John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Tuesday, describing […]
