Mayor of New York City

the New York City Police Department. The Knapp Commission got its start when police officer Frank Serpico and a Sergeant David Durk, publicly talked about the corruption at the New York City Police Department. When the Knapp Commission got started there was five members on the panel that was first formed in April of 1970. The five members on the panel were Whitman Knapp, Arnold Bauman, Franklin Thomas, Cyrus Vance, and Joseph Monserrat. The Knapp Commission was started by the mayor of New York…

establish innocence in court. Despite being declared unconstitutional in 2013, there’s an ongoing discussion in the news to bring it back and not just in New York but in other major cities as well. Stop and frisk is a prejudiced program that should not be reinstituted in America. Stop and frisk was first introduced as legal through…

Smack in the center of New York City — in the confines of Central Park — there are ghostly vestiges of a 19th century neighborhood that once was vibrant and thriving but now is largely forgotten: Seneca Village. No one knows that this prestigious and fancy park that sits in the middle of Manhattan New York City, central park, has such a repugnant history, also one that needs to be told. Seneca village, whose name suggests a Native American influence, arose when free, emancipated and escaped…

Island, it is plausible that Mayor de Blasio should encourage the Department of Corrections to separate these young offenders from older inmates and encourage education to assist in rehabilitation rather than confinement and captivity. It should also be required that Correctional Officers be retrained on proper conduct and unbiased treatment of all inmates rather than frequently resorting to unwarranted excessive force. The stop and frisk law should be reevaluated the way Mayor de Blasio has…

have police watch their neighborhoods, or even having the tables turned for small offences. However, that is the only thing that helped our city prevail and become one of the safest cities in America. Our police needs to help our community understand that they are here with the purpose to make our community a better, safer, a more reliable and sustainable city. Police are now spending time with members in their community for example playing a simple game of basketball in neighborhoods that had…

EJ LeClair Teacher: Kelly Sherman 11/4/2014 The America of the post Independence War was a very different place, New York State had been a loyalist strong hold during the war and this had diminished its standing in the newly formed nation. In 1810 Dewitt Clinton, the current mayor of New York City, had the insane idea to connect New York to Lake Erie via the Mohawk Valley the only western pass in the Appalachian Mountains. This seemingly delusional idea would require…

People build a city, just as a city builds people. This proves that atmospheres impact a person's characteristics and the character one becomes. Judgements are build off of this impact, it builds a reputation for both the environment and the person. In the film “Gangs of New York”, there is an emphasis on the personality of multiple characters, and the sides those characters choose to present to the audience. Tyler Anbinder’s book “Five Points” discusses the history of New York, and the cultural…

industries and the growth of cities was noted by several sources in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but explanations relating to the nature of the link have thus far proven to be insufficient. The two dominant “scripts” were those of “creative clusters” and “creative/cities/creative class” theories, but both have significant limitations arising from how they privilege amenities-led, supply driven accounts of urban development and how they fail to adequately situate cities in wider…

Although Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City in the 1990s, is most frequently credited with starting that city’s application of the broken windows theory, his predecessor, David Dinkin, truly began its use. He hired 8,000 new officers, as well as a new police commissioner, and began the move towards broken windows and community policing (Business Insider). Additionally, while it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear.…

in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older settlers and change in landscape. Many urban cities like Chicago, Michigan and Boston have experienced gentrification, however, it is affecting the Harlem residents more profoundly, uprooting the people who have been living there for decades, thus destroying…