Opinion: NYC must end racial disparities in maternal mortality
/Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer is a candidate for Queens borough president.
Read MoreCouncilmember Jimmy Van Bramer is a candidate for Queens borough president.
Read MoreThere will be one Black male judge in a courthouse where 38% of defendants are Black men.
Read MoreThe array of offenses include fights caused by jumping a line while waiting to enter a supermarket and a bank robbery.
Read MoreWhite people are overrepresented on every single Queens community board. Latinx residents are underrepresented on all but one.
Read MoreBlack and Latinx New Yorkers accounted for 94 percent of all low-level marijuana arrests in New York City during the first six months of the year.
Read MoreIn an opinion piece for the Eagle, Council Member Rory Lancman explains the lawsuit he filed against the city to release fare evasion arrest data. // Photo by Harrison Leong
There’s a new marijuana policy coming to town and the latest arrest data from the New York Police Department reveal the vast racial disparities that prompted the change.
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