The death of Akai Gurley during a police patrol has raised questions about how NYC's public housing developments are policed and whether using NYPD to enforce NYCHA rules oversteps. Daryl Khan, New York bureau chief of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and Gregory "Fritz" Umbach, professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discuss policing in public housing.
Public housing residents: tell us about your relationship with police. Cops in pub housing: should NYPD be enforcing NYCHA rules? 2124339692
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"You don't get rewarded for innovation. You get rewarded for arrests. That's what you need to change." -Daryl Kahn of @JJIEnews
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"The police dept is asked to...handle this poverty problem that we don't have the political will to deal with." -Daryl Kahn on cops in NYCHA
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