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The NYPD is on track to once again blow through its already gargantuan overtime budget this fiscal year.
A new report from the NYC Comptroller's Office says the police department can and must do better at managing OT.
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Read our statement on the proposed increase to the NYPD headcount.
To get involved, join the Racial Justice Working Group at an upcoming meeting: actionnetwork.org/events/dep…
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Jun 12
If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today.
Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.
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Jun 12
NYC-DSA released a public statement criticizing Mayor Mamdani's proposal to increase NYPD headcount.
NYC-DSA leadership has been extremely reluctant to publicly criticize Mamdani since he took office, so this is a very big deal. instagram.com/nycdsa/p/DZf0Z…
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Jun 11
The police are not our allies in ending violence against women they are perpetrators
Jun 11
"A former officer with the New York Police Department pleaded guilty in Manhattan on Wednesday to sending sexual and inappropriate messages to women who were victims of a crime and for having sex with another woman shortly after he arrested her."
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"A former officer with the New York Police Department pleaded guilty in Manhattan on Wednesday to sending sexual and inappropriate messages to women who were victims of a crime and for having sex with another woman shortly after he arrested her."
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Jun 8
Very irritated about this. I hope @nycDSA leadership will speak out about this.
Jun 8
Zohran's proposed expansion of the NYPD is a violation of his campaign promise and the latest incident in a pattern of capitulation to police power.
Read the full statement: dsaemerge.org/2026/06/08/soc…
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Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.
We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.
The Trump administration has drawn up a plan to surge US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel to New York City, a move that threatens to escalate tensions with New York Governor Kathy Hochul over the president’s migrant crackdown. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Jun 8
FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.
Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…
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This is one of the most heavily policed places in the country. The rapid response of Amtrack Police came too late. Providing real services to high needs populations make us all safer in a way that policing doesn't.
A suspect is in custody after five people were stabbed Sunday evening at New York City's Penn Station, sources told ABC News. abcnews.link/dTNzwh0
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60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally.
Kids need care, not cages.
ALT Graph showing the prevalence of diagnoses among youth in confinement: 4% autism spectrum, 27% learning disabilities, 60% ADD or ADHD
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Jun 6
❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall.
Some have received phone calls or door knocks.
National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:
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Jun 5
Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele (@CatholicClod ) finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle. cosmonautmag.com/2026/06/abo…
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Graham Platner: “Susan Collins hasn’t met a war she doesn’t like, and it’s no surprise because she’s married to a lobbyist who represents the defense industry. You don’t see as many articles about that.”
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Jun 5
Very clear double standard at play with Platner reporting because he is anti-zionist and anti-oligarch. For example, Newsom dated a 19 year old when he was 39 and slept with his best friend’s wife but for some reason this isn’t the subject of breathless exposes. Reporters aren’t banging down the door of all Newsom’s ex’s to dig for more dirt. It’s not considered potentially disqualifying or really considered at all.
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A reminder that from 2017-2025, funding for immigration policing and detention swelled by 171%.
That's a ton of taxpayer money that could be invested in community safety, but instead is given to ICE to tear families apart.
Jun 5
BREAKING: The Senate passes a $70B immigration enforcement bill without limits on President Trump's settlement fund. apnews.com/article/trump-set…
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ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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