All news by author: Charles Fain Lehman

The City Council's decision to decriminalize jaywalking isn't likely to significantly impact the lives of many New Yorkers—few were ticketed for jaywalking even prior to this change. However, it does remove another option from the NYPD's toolbox for addressing issues

Anti-police radicals will call Tisch’s quality-of-life unit racist, abusive and illegal — the same arguments, and the policies they created, that caused New York’s rampant disorder in the first place.

Two years ago, New York State passed legislation allowing the use of cannabis. Despite this, there are currently only a handful of authorized dispensaries compared to a large number of illegal ones. The cause of this discrepancy lies in the intense emphasis on race and "equity" during the licensing procedure