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No Backspace: The Surprising Support for Trump Among New Chinese Immigrants

Gage SkidmoreRecent Chinese immigrants, whose roots are in a more homogeneous country with a civic culture that shows little patience for political correctness, might be misreading the signals Donald...

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No BackSpace: Clinton and Trump vs. the Truth—Stop & Frisk Isn’t Over

Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeMayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill hold a press conference at One Police Plaza in Manhattan to discuss the latest crime statistics on...

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Op-Ed: Rejecting the East Harlem ‘Community’ Plan

EHNPA photo from the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan showing one of the community outreach sessions conducted during the plan's preparation. The author believes that process operated quietly and...

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No BackSpace: IDNYC Fiasco Shows Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Trust the City

William AlatristeAn official City Council photo from early 2015 shows a young applicant for IDNYC. Her face, name and address are visible in the original. The city is sweetening the pot to its IDNYC...

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No BackSpace: Amid Racist Sentiment, Year of the Rooster Dawns on a Stronger...

Sergio Fabara MuñozCelebrating the Year of the Rooster A few days after Donald Trump became president, the Asians in this country and around the world celebrated the start of the Year of Rooster. I...

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No BackSpace: It’s the Incessant Fundraising, Stupid (Why Big Money Dooms...

DoDHillary Clinton and the PACs that supported her raised and spent nearly three quarters of a billion dollars – more than double what Trump and his supporters spent – and Trump still won the Electoral...

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NoBackspace: Vision Zero Works When Victim-Blaming Stops and Accountability...

Adi TalwarA Ghost Bike at the north west corner of Lexington Avenue and 104th Street memorializes a fatal crash on April 17, 2014. At 78 years old, Michael Schenkman rode his bicycle every day. The...

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No Backspace: NY’s Rules for Policing Political Activity Still Need Tightening

Andrew SNYPD officers observe Occupy Wall Street. The Handschu rules govern the other, covert side of how the police monitor political activity. Five months ago, Judge Charles Haight ordered lawyers...

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No BackSpace: Shackling Inmates Will Only Make Rikers Violence Worse

BOCImage from a presentation to the city's Board of Correction about the use of restraint desks on Rikers. Multiple studies have arrived at the same conclusion: Heavy control results in more rather...

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CityViews: Police, Politics and the Puerto Rican Day Parade

Salvador EspinozaA scene from last year's Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade, an event launched in 2014 as a response to police-community tension and an alternative to a Manhattan parade that some felt...

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