wayne isaacs | justicecommittee

[City & State] Opinion: A new low for the NYPD

The cop who killed Delrawn Small now claims he wasn’t acting as a cop to avoid discipline. By Jumaane Williams and Julia Salazar When is a cop not a cop? Whenever it’s convenient, it turns out. We both vividly remember the sweltering day in July 2016 when an NYPD officer killed Delrawn Small, unarmed Black father. One of us was interning at a community organization; the other was already years into fighting the effects of abusive police violence on the streets as an activis

JC Team

Jan 94 min read

[Capital B] Delrawn Small’s Family Still Seeks Accountability 9 Years After NYPD Killing

Officer Wayne Isaacs was acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges in 2016. by Christina Carrega BROOKLYN, New York — In a neighborhood just miles from where his father was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer nine years ago, Zaiden Small sat on a couch, kicking and dangling his feet as he listened to stories about a man he never knew. He was a protector, a provider, and a man who had turned his life around. “I wish he would be right here. He’d just teleport rig

JC Team

Jan 99 min read

Elected Officials Join Delrawn Small’s Family to Demand Commissioner Tisch Ensures Discipline Trial for Officer Wayne Isaacs Proceeds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 13, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS: Tess Weiner, tess@justicecommittee.org , 224.213.5495 Grace Goodwin, grace@spitfirestrategies.com , 207-248-1009 Elected Officials Join Delrawn Small’s Family to Demand Commissioner Tisch Ensures Discipline Trial for Officer Wayne Isaacs Proceeds 33 elected officials send a letter to Tisch, urging her to reject outrageous recommendation to dismiss charges New York, NY — Today, the family of Delrawn Small was

JC Team

Nov 13, 20255 min read

33 Elected Officials to Commissioner Tisch: Uphold the Charges Against Wayne Isaacs

November 13, 2025 NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch 1 Police Plaza New York, NY 10038 RE: DCT’s erroneous recommendation to dismiss charges against NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs Dear Commissioner Tisch, We, thirty three city and state elected officials, write with the utmost urgency to implore you to reject NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs’ motion and NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado’s recommendation to dismiss all charges against him for killing Delrawn Small and

JC Team

Nov 13, 20254 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

5 days ago3 min read

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

Oct 93 min read

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

Oct 86 min read

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

Sep 292 min read

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

Sep 112 min read

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

Sep 109 min read

[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