WBAI News: Copwatch and the Mayor
“…the mayor says he’s putting an end to the public videotaping police.” CPRAF’s spokesperson Monifa Bandele speaks with WBAI’s Paul DeRienzo to respond. Listen at the 17:49 minute mark… […]
Category: In The Media
NY Times: Can Adams Rebuild, and Rein In, a Notorious N.Y.P.D. Unit?
“It really doesn’t translate even to the short-term safety of my community, even if it may feel that way to communities outside of mine,” said Monifa Bandele […]
City & State: NYC pols want to change NYPD’s role at polling sites
New York City lawmakers told City & State they are exploring legislation that would rethink the NYPD’s role at poll sites during elections. […]
City & State: Is Maya Wiley the woman for NYC?
Leaders of the police reform movement are withholding judgment, eager to hear more from Wiley. “I think she has an impressive social justice record,” said Joo-Hyun Kang […]
City Limits: Opinion – NYPD Presence at the Polls Undermines Democracy
By Ronnette A. Cox | November 13, 2020 Election workers can never be fully prepared for what issues might arise on Election Day. But one question to always expect is how to fill out the ballot itself. For many people, presidential elections are the only times they vote, and over the four years in between, they […]
Daily News: On Election Day, the NYPD must stand back
By Monifa Bandele and Jose Lopez | NOVEMBER 03, 2020 This summer, tens of thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets to demand justice. Those same New Yorkers are now heading to the polls in droves to turn those calls for justice into tangible reform. But this election season, this diverse wave of New Yorkers […]
NBC News: Bloomberg says he nearly eliminated stop-and-frisk as mayor. But he fought for it to the end.
By Jon Schuppe | FEBRUARY 27, 2020 In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting policy, known as stop-and-frisk. One challenge was in the courts, where a mostly black […]