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State Commission Examines Lack of Diversity on Jury Panels
Manhattan public defender Eric Burse remembers the moment a panel of roughly 70 potential jurors filed into a criminal courtroom at 100 Centre St. in Lower Manhattan. He scanned the group quickly seconds before they’d be sworn in. What he saw stopped him cold. “There didn’t appear to be a single Black juror in the […]
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Has Youth Crime in New York Risen After Raise the Age?
This is part of Vital City’s ongoing series dissecting the data on matters of public controversy, especially in the realm of public safety. For more from Vital City, sign up for their newsletter. In April 2017, New York passed “Raise the Age,” a law designed to stop automatically prosecuting 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, making […]
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As U.S. Transit Takes a Dive, MTA Enjoys a Rarity: More Service and Stable Cash Flow
In the San Francisco Bay area, commuters face a series of grim possibilities in 2026: Bay Area Rapid Transit trains that run once an hour, shutdowns of entire lines, no service on weekends. The prospects for riders in and around Philadelphia are also bleak. While a judge’s September order overturned massive service cuts to dozens […]
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Construction CEO Linked to Banks Brothers Probe Indicted in Manhattan
The CEO of a telecommunications construction firm entangled in a federal influence-peddling investigation targeting two of Mayor Eric Adams’ former top officials — David and Philip Banks — and their brother, Terence, was indicted Thursday on corporate fraud charges. Anthony Tepedino, CEO of Allstate Sales Group (ASG), was a client of Terence Banks’ consulting firm, […]
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Federal Judge Orders Deposition of New York ICE Deputy Field Office Director
A federal judge in Lower Manhattan has ordered the deposition of William Joyce, ICE’s New York Deputy Field Office Director, in an ongoing lawsuit regarding conditions inside holding cells on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. The deposition will be conducted during the second week of January, and will focus on whether ICE is […]
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