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[CBS] NYPD Supervisor Of Pantaleo Won’t Stand Trial, Loses 20 Vacation Days As Punishment
Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, called for further justice for her son following the firing of Pantaleo on Monday.
JC Team
Aug 21, 20191 min read
[Gothamist] NYPD Lieutenant Texted 'Not A Big Deal' On The Day Eric Garner Died
Loyda Colon, Co-Director of the Justice Committee, reflected the emotion inside the trial room. “It's a big deal to his family..."
JC Team
May 17, 20191 min read
[Gothamist] Admin Trial Begins For NYPD Officer Accused Of Using Illegal Chokehold To Kill Garner
Pantaleo and other officers who engaged in misconduct related to Eric Garner should have been fired years ago,” said Loyda Colon
JC Team
May 13, 20191 min read
[Patch] NYPD Blowing Off 'Right To Know' Laws, Advocates Say
"The NYPD is still conducting illegal searches, is still coercing community members into agreeing searches, is still intimidating our...
JC Team
Apr 29, 20191 min read
[NewNowNext] A Queer Black Man Was Killed by the NYPD—and His Community Wants Answers
More than a week after police shot and killed a queer black man in the Bronx, a grieving community has been left searching for answers....
JC Team
Apr 24, 20191 min read
[Times Union] Activists, lawmakers push to repeal 50-a at Capitol
Lawmakers, activists and families impacted by violent encounters with the police gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to push for a repeal...
JC Team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
[NY Law Journal] State Lawmakers Press for Reforms Aimed at Police Accountability, Transparency
Lawmakers and advocates rally in Albany for a set of reforms related to information on law enforcement. Read More
JC Team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
[El Diario] Piden pasar ley ‘Safer NY’ como parte de la reforma judicial
En la demostración también participaron familiares de víctimas de brutalidad policial como Valerie Bell, madre de Sean Bell, muerto a...
JC Team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
[Daily News] Advocates and lawmakers rally to repeal law that lets cops hide misbehavior
A group of lawmakers and activists, including the mother of Sean Bell, rallied Tuesday for the full repeal of section 50-a of the state’s...
JC Team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
[Spectrum News] Community Members Rally for Police Reform at State Capitol
At the state Capitol, more than two dozen community members and legislators gathered outside the Senate chambers Tuesday to rally in...
JC Team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
[Gothamist] "Our eyes do not lie. The autopsy did not lie. This was a chokehold, plain and simple."
In a statement, Loyda Colon, co-director of the Justice Committee, said: "Our eyes do not lie. The autopsy did not lie. This was a...
JC Team
Apr 4, 20191 min read
[AP] NYC settles with mother of man killed by police
New York City has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to the mother of a mentally ill man who was fatally shot by police in 2012. Mohamed...
JC Team
Mar 21, 20191 min read
[reason.com] New York Police Killed Her Son, Then Refused to Answer Her Questions.
NYPD officer Richard Haste had followed Malcolm's son, 18-year-old Ramarley Graham into Graham's apartment, believing he had a gun, and...
JC Team
Feb 8, 20191 min read
[The New York Times] Police Union Criticized for Comparing Arrested N.F.L. Player to ‘Wild Animal’
Loyda Colon, a co-director of the Justice Committee, a police-reform group, said in a statement that the rhetoric of the union leaders...
JC Team
Jan 27, 20191 min read
[Metro] NYPD organized 'large scale' Black Lives Matter surveillance and kept activist photos years
Loyda Colon, co-director of Justice Committee and Communities United for Police Reform, said in a statement that the committee condemns...
JC Team
Jan 17, 20191 min read


Mayor’s Police Reforms Will Not Address NYPD’s Culture of Violence and Impunity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 12, 2026 Justice Committee: Mayor’s Police Reforms Will Not Address NYPD’s Culture of Violence and Impunity New York, NY — Earlier today, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a slate of police reforms in response to last week’s revelation that the NYPD allowed Officer Salvatore Alongi, who killed 19-year-old Win Rozario in March 2024, to retire with a disability pension while awaiting a departmental trial, without proper notification to the CCR
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Parents of Win Rozario & Justice Committee Respond to Commissioner Tisch’s “Human Error” Statement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 9, 2026 Parents of Win Rozario & Justice Committee Respond to Commissioner Tisch’s “Human Error” Statement New York, NY — Following yesterday’s reveal that NYPD Officer Salvatore Alongi was allowed to retire in May while awaiting a departmental trial for the 2024 killing of Bangladeshi teen Win Rozario and that the NYPD still hasn’t submitted Alongi for state decertification in spite of state law requiring it, Police Commissioner Jessica
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NYPD Let Killer Cop Retire Amidst Pending Discipline Proceedings in Killing of Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 8, 2026 NYPD Let Killer Cop Retire Amidst Pending Discipline Proceedings in Killing of Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario Family calls NYPD “corrupt,” says they feel “betrayed” by Mayor Mamdani and issues list of demands, including firing of second officer responsible for teen’s death New York, NY — Today, the family of Win Rozario held a press conference exposing that the NYPD let former Officer Salvatore Alongi, one of the two officers who
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NYPD Still Severely Underreports Stop-and-Frisks, Despite Court Oversight
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 29, 2026 NYPD Still Severely Underreports Stop-and-Frisks, Despite Court Oversight 13 years after landmark Floyd decision, NYPD continues illegal racial profiling with impunity New York, NY – In response to the newest court-appointed monitor’s report showing that NYPD is still severely underreporting stops, Justice Committee Executive Director Loyda Colón (they/them) released the following statement: “It’s been thirteen years since N
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Rest in Power, Iris Baez 🕊️
Iris was THE OG—the matriarch to families whose loved ones were murdered by police, not just in NYC but across the country and around the world. For over 3 decades, she never gave up the fight against police violence and brutality. While this is devastating news, we know she's being welcomed by the ancestors. Iris’s son #AnthonyBaez was killed by NYPD Officer Francis Livot in 1994 with an already-banned chokehold – 20 years before #EricGarner was killed in the same way. Antho
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The Moment We’re In - and How We Got Here
Part of the Meeting the Moment compilation, curated by Building Beyond Policing and Democratizing Justice Initiative. Read the entire issue: As the United States careens toward authoritarianism, the role of law enforcement as an enforcer of a specific political agenda — backed by ever-expanding powers, funding, militarization, and surveillance infrastructure — has never been clearer. But this ominous trend is not limited to federal law enforcement under the Trump regime; it m
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[Gothamist] Advocates say Mayor Mamdani's NYPD isn't curbing broken-windows policing
By Ben Feuerherd in Gothamist Aug 13, 2026 Elected officials and police reform advocates on Thursday called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to rein in what they call a continuation of broken windows policing under his administration, after they watched criminal court arraignments across the city over several days this week. City Councilmember Sandy Nurse joined the advocates in front of Manhattan Supreme Court on Centre Street, and said she would keep the pressure on City Hall to ena
Aug 173 min read
Community Groups Decry Escalating Low-Level Arrests Targeting People of Color Under Mayor Mamdani
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 13, 2026 Community Groups Decry Escalating Low-Level Arrests Targeting People of Color Under Mayor Mamdani Advocates call for an end to harmful Broken Windows Policing, which has continued to intensify in 2026 New York – On Thursday, community groups, among them Court Watch NYC, Drug Policy Alliance, Freedom Agenda, Justice Committee, The Legal Aid Society, SURJ NYC, VOCAL-NY and others, released data from a week of observing arraignmen
Aug 134 min read
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