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City Journal

Jan 22, 2003

In The News: For the best conservative, feel-good take on crime in New York, check out City Journal, published quarterly by the think-tank The Manhattan Institute. The Spring and Summer issues

 

Civilian Complaint Review Boards

Jan 12, 2003

THE LOWDOWN: It has been a winter of reckoning for the NYPD. Last December, Justin Volpe pleaded guilty to sodomizing Abner Louima. A second trial in the Louima case is drawing

Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 08:21 AM)

 

Two Heinous Crimes Unresolved

Oct 01, 2002

As former police officer Charles Schwarz heads back to prison to start his five-year sentence for perjury, New Yorkers have come to realize they may never know who besides imprisoned

Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 09:37 AM)

 

Police Pay: What's Fair?

Sep 01, 2002

The starting salary of police officers in the NYPD is $31,305 -- too low to support a family of four in most city neighborhoods. How did this happen to cops

Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 09:36 AM)

 

Capital Punishment, Parole, And More

Aug 01, 2002

  CARNEGIE DELI KILLERS SENTENCED The two men convicted in late June of killing three people and wounding two others in an execution-style murder and robbery above midtown's Carnegie Deli have been

 

Drug Law Reform Failed Again

Jul 01, 2002

 A year in which the governor and all 211 legislators are up for reelection is generally not the politically preferred time to introduce legislation perceived as soft on crime. Nonetheless, in

 

Operation Spotlight, etc.

Jun 01, 2002

Last fall's post-September 11 headline in the satirical newspaper the Onion read: "Rest of country temporarily feels deep affection for New York." But it is still holding on. Despite forbidding

Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 09:49 AM)

 

Back To The Bad Old Days?

May 01, 2002

Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days when the very name New York City was associated with crimes so brutal they entered the American lexicon. The Central

Last Updated (Friday, March 15, 2013 09:46 AM)

 

Alternative Juvenile Court

Apr 01, 2002

  It was Tuesday afternoon at the Red Hook Community Justice Center and a teenage girl accused of robbing a classmate at school stood before judge Alex Calabrese. She had one