Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet

  • December 29, 2015
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Vor 25 Jahren wurde Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet Hachenburg gedenkt an den kurdischen Jugendlichen, der von einem fremdenfeindlichen Jugendlichen erstochen wurde. 250 Menschen zogen – wie damals – erneut durch die Stadt um an den rassistisch motivierten Mord zu erinnern. Am Parkhaus weist nun eine Gedenktafel auf das Geschehen vor 25 Jahren hin. Am Rande der Gedenkfeier kam es zu einem Überfall auf einen Teilnehmer, er wurde mit einem Messer bedroht und geschlagen. Vor 25 Jahren wurde Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet Hachenburg. Mit Entsetzen mussten die Bürger der Stadt Hachenburg vor 25 Jahren feststellen, dass aus niedrigen Beweggründen ein Jugendlicher aus dem…

Traking Enforcement Rates in New York City 2003-2014

  • December 29, 2015
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A Report of the Misdemeanor Justice Project of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Presented to the Citzen’s Crime Commision December 11, 2015 1 Tracking Enforcement Rates in New York City, 2003-2014 Introduction by President Jeremy Travis Preeti Chauhan, Ph.D. Todd C. Warner, Ph.D. Adam G. Fera, M.A. Ervin Balazon, M.P.A. Olive Lu, M.S. Megan Welsh, Ph.D. December 11, 2015 GOALS OF THE REPORT This report seeks to better understand longitudinal trends in the different types ofenforcement actions that bring the public into contact with law enforcement officials.Our primary analyses focus on four types of enforcement activity: the issuance…

New York City Policing, by the Numbers

  • December 29, 2015
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The warnings began even before Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City’s mayor in January 2014. A safe New York depended on the aggressive policing tactics that began in the 1990s and flourished under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly. Without those tactics, the doomsayers said, the city would be swamped by a 1970s-style crime wave. After a federal judge ruled in 2013 that the Police Department’s “stop and frisk” policy was so sweeping that it violated the Constitution, Mr. Kelly was furious. “Violent crime will go up,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the…

Memorial Blockade: A Love Letter to Communities Resisting Police Violence

  • December 25, 2015
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Toting a number of large gift-wrapped packages, a group of 16 Chicagoans walked into a crosswalk in the city’s financial district on December 15. After strolling into a formation that stretched from one side of Congress Parkway to the other, at the mouth of the Eisenhower Expressway, they unwrapped the packages, revealing a set of lockboxes – blockade devices that attach protesters to one another as they attempt to hold space – and locked themselves together. The lockboxes were unusually ornate, with white lights and paper and cloth flowers woven throughout their surface area. Once a box connected each person…

Drones and Lethal Robotics: The Future of the Police War on Black Lives

  • December 25, 2015
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“We are not in a police state now, not yet. I’m talking about what may come. I realize I shouldn’t put it that way … White, middle-class, educated people like myself are not living in a police state … Black, poor people are living in a police state.” – Daniel Ellsberg speaking with Arundhati Roy Mass movement against police brutality is not a new phenomenon, but the last few years have seen a rise in calls for accountability. The idea that police officers should face at least some repercussions for their actions seems to have struck a chord within public…

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