Faster Justice, Closer to Home: The Power of Community Courts
Community courts across the country are fighting judicial backlog and lowering re-arrest rates.
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New York City
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Ironic Demographics: Brooklyn Is Dying
What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?
Breaking Down the Broken Windows Theory
As Rudy Giuliani’s old police commissioner William Bratton returns to New York City, new research still fuels a debate over their pet policy.
Hard Data to Back Up the Rhetoric on Recidivism
New York City has launched a public database to help study the problem of repeat offenders.
New York City’s Perpetual Gentrification
Why the loudest anti-gentrification protesters come from the wealthiest areas in the wealthiest countries in the entire world.
What Are the Chances I Die Today?
Noah Davis calculates the odds of his demise on an ordinary day in New York City.
New York’s ‘Shop and Frisk’ Scourge
Racial profiling in luxury stores is causing way more problems than it’s preventing.
Mobile or Stuck? Two Sides of New York City Gentrification
What are your options when increasing real estate costs price you out?
I Kind of, Sort of Might, But Not Really, Believe in Astrology
With little to no scientific evidence backing them, why do so many people still look at their horoscopes?
