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Roundtable on Ending Broken Windows Policing
Jesse Hamilton
May 18, 2017
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Grateful to all who were able to attend our End Broken Windows Policing Roundtable this afternoon. Thanks to Senator Marisol Alcantara for co-hosting the event with me. Thanks to the NYC Council Members who took time out from ongoing budget meetings and attended, we appreciated NYC Council Members Carlos Menchaca, Antonio Reynoso, Ritchie Torres, and Jumaane Williams joining us. Thanks also to the representatives from other elected officials' offices who could attend. Thanks as well to all the advocates, academics, and community members who shared their expertise with us.
We benefited from the participation of:
- Alex Vitale, Associate Professor Sociology, Brooklyn College
- Ashon Jegroo, Activist and Citizen Journalist
- Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Charles Nunez, Community Advocate, Youth Represent
- Christian Covington, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge NYU
- Dennis Flores, Co-Founder of El Grito Sunset Park
- Deshonay Dozier, Coalition to End Broken Windows
- Dyme-A-Duzin, Recording Artist
- Erin George, Advocacy Director, Just Leadership USA
- Franny Silverman, Director of Learning and Action, Kolot Chayeinu
- Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s Mother, Mothers Of The Movement
- Josmar Trujillo, Coordinator, Activist, and Journalist, Coalition to End Broken Windows
- Kenneth Shelton, Activist and member of Black Lives Matter Greater New York
- Mike Tucker, Founder Lay The Guns Down Foundation
- Nicholas Heyward Sr., Founder of Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Memorial Foundation
- Nick Malinowski, Civil Rights Campaign Director, Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders New York (VOCAL-NY)
- Norman Siegel, Civil Rights Attorney
- Payton Berry, Police Reform Organizing Project
- Reverend Kevin McCall, National Crisis Director, National Action Network
- Tania Mattos, Queens Neighborhoods United
We had an opportunity to hear about the severe toll broken windows policing takes on our communities and think through further measures we can take across government to advance real change.
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