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Address chronic shortages in special education, as well as for multilingual students, English Language Learners, and students in the foster care system or otherwise temporary housed Increase student access to social workers and other mental health professionals to reduce suspensions and provide direct, integrated, trauma-sensitive support to students experiencing emotional or behavioral crises.

Guarantee that every child has access to free, high-speed internet service at home and establish a true device policy. Make sure every child receives high-quality arts, physical, and health education, a requirement of State law that goes unmet by the City — as well as access to athletics.

Provide universal free, high-quality afterschool programming in every K-8 school. Expand the ranks of social workers and other mental health professionals to provide direct, integrated, trauma-sensitive support to students experiencing emotional or behavioral crises.

Ensure every school is staffed with full-time social workers with caseloads of no more than students, by tripling the number of school-based social workers. Remove armed NYPD officers from schools, bar school safety staff from responding to social-emotional student behavioral issues, and train all school staff in culturally responsive and sustaining education CR-SE. Establish a Mental Health Continuum to connect students in crisis directly with mental health clinicians and supports — a particularly critical investment as students heal from the trauma of the COVID public health and economic crises.

Invest in prevention and identification of adolescent depression and responses to early warning signs of self-harm and suicide. Make CUNY community colleges free for all and revamp workforce development programs to build back a more equitable and inclusive economy. Organize paid internships for all CUNY graduating seniors to help them bridge the gap between college and career.

Strengthen partnerships with private industry to upskill New Yorkers, improve career pathways, and expand apprenticeship opportunities. Expand bridge programs that help connect language education to job training and opportunities.

Pilot universal paid internships for high school students, and increase career exploration and youth employment opportunities including by offering universal school-connected summer jobs SYEP. Scott Stringer has spent his career fighting for a more sustainable future, working in the trenches with climate activists, creating detailed blueprints on how to achieve a cleaner, greener city, and harnessing every lever of his office to advance the causes of climate action on the local, national and international stages.

The climate crisis is here, and New Yorkers need a mayor with solutions to put into action right now. Scott is proposing the most bold, comprehensive, and actionable climate plan New York City has ever seen — to truly deliver a Green New Deal to New Yorkers.

Ban all new fossil fuel infrastructure, including new pipelines or the redevelopment of power plants. Permanently retire all existing pipelines, gas storage, and the remaining eighteen peaker plants operating across the city. Unlock the potential of energy storage by installing both large and small battery systems to allow New Yorkers to reliably access renewable energy.

Transform Rikers Island into a hub of energy storage, renewable energy generation, and wastewater treatment. Fight for the federal and state funding to implement a Green New Deal. Create workforce development programs and apprenticeships to put more New Yorkers to work at tens of thousands of good-paying, 21st century green union jobs. Drastically improve air quality in areas with high rates of asthma, by tasking agencies to measure and improve indoor air quality, pinpoint pollution hotspots, and take cars off the road.

Retire half of all New York City based peaker plants by and the rest by Scale back our urban highway network and repurpose road space into green space. Fight for the Green New Deal for public housing, outlined by Rep.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, to entirely overhaul decrepit NYCHA buildings and take developments off of fossil fuels, generating 32, good-paying jobs along the way.

Eliminate childhood lead exposure by targeting buildings already linked to cases of lead exposure. Ban natural gas and oil use in new construction or major renovations to allow for the scaling back of fossil fuels.

Halt the use of polluting number four heating oil by Implement fast-track green permitting to accelerate green construction. Retrofit schools into hubs of sustainability by undertaking deep retrofits, electrifying buildings, topping roofs with solar or vegetation, and installing batteries. Develop a plan of district-scale clean energy projects that can take swaths of buildings off of fossil fuels all at once.

Make Open Streets permanent to provide more space for midblock playgrounds, greenery, and bike paths. Install fully protected bus lanes for all high-ridership bus lines. Extend Citi Bike across the five boroughs, massively expand bike lanes, and subsidize the purchase of e-bikes. Invest in parks and enhance urban forests by putting more resources into maintenance, supporting volunteers, planting trees, and building new playgrounds over the next five years.

Expand green infrastructure to avoid the development of expensive wastewater treatment facilities. Protect all miles of coastline from climate change and rising seas by implementing a five-borough resiliency plan that targets help to communities most at risk. New strategies to elevate homes and businesses, protect wetlands, and build back better.

Address the danger heatwaves pose to vulnerable populations by distributing air conditioners, planting trees, and building green roofs. Increase access to low cost resiliency loans that can help elevate and safeguard homes and businesses. Fix the ongoing City response to Covid with a comprehensive, well-managed citywide vaccination program in every neighborhood that ensures racial equity. Make sure we are better prepared for the next public health crisis by strengthening disease tracking systems, expanding emergency stockpiles, and enhancing trust of healthcare providers in marginalized communities.

Catch up on routine and preventative care that people may have put off during the pandemic but is essential to staving off serious disease. Ensure no New Yorker has to travel more than 20 minutes to access high-quality, primary health care by prioritizing the construction, refurbishment, or renovation of primary care facilities in all underserved neighborhoods, increasing insurance enrollment, and continuing telehealth innovation.

Close health disparities and improve the social determinants of health by addressing neighborhood-level inequities and working across the agencies that influence social needs and social determinants of health, from housing and education to transportation and criminal justice. Improve quality of care for vulnerable populations including homeless or housing insecure New Yorkers, the currently and formerly incarcerated, and marginalized populations across the city.

End our maternal mortality crisis by expanding prenatal outreach for at-risk mothers and investing in a workforce of doulas, community midwives, and maternal health workers. Combat obesity and metabolic diseases with specific, sustained health investments to close gaps in care in communities with disproportionate rates of disease and low life expectancy.

Slash air pollution and cut rates of asthma in environmental justice communities by retiring polluting power plants, reducing car traffic, and phasing out the use of noxious heating oil. Advocate for single-payer health care at the state and Federal level. Expand access to mental health care and build a new mental health network in the place of ThriveNYC — one that coordinates across agencies, refocuses on people living with serious mental illness, and imposes strict accountability measures.

Invest in identification, prevention, and intervention by expanding mental health services in our schools — tripling the number of social workers in our schools — as well as our public university and public hospital systems, and investing in Mental Health First Aid and Trauma-Informed Counseling.

Transfer our mental health crisis response system from the NYPD to trained health-first crisis response teams and make New York City a leader on suicide prevention. Expand behavioral health supportive housing and create single points of access for individuals who need supportive housing, and build out a world-class telemental health service.

Fight the opioid epidemic by investing in evidence-based prevention and harm reduction programs, linguistically- and culturally-competent education campaigns, and expanding HealingNYC, NYC Relay, and naloxone distribution. Scott Stringer has dedicated himself to fighting for housing for working families. He believes that safe, affordable housing is a right, not a privilege, and has a bold plan to fight the housing crisis, end homelessness, and extend the right to housing to all New Yorkers.

Expand the right to counsel by increasing funding for legal services and ensuring a universal right to counsel. Convert vacant hotels and commercial spaces into shelters, supportive housing, and affordable housing. Assist small landlords and non-profit organizations with a new program to provide financial assistance in exchange for restrictive declarations preventing tenant eviction.

Reverse the damage of the Trump Administration and fight for real federal relief for tenants and homeowners. Build a new generation of social housing on the more than 2, vacant lots already owned by the City currently unused and undeveloped. Preserve existing affordable housing, create a transparent list of existing rent restricted buildings, end the Lien Sale, get tough with bad landlords, and preserve existing limited equity coops.

Establish good permanent jobs and wage and benefit floor standards for construction and building service workers in affordable housing. End wasteful tax giveaways to private developers and establish and tailor a new subsidy program to fund deep, permanent affordability on a discretionary basis.

Create a new operating subsidy program to finance deep affordability. Establish a Tenant Bill of Rights in every lease packet and translated into numerous languages.

Mandate Universal Affordable Housing UAH to require every developer to set aside 25 percent of its units for permanent, low-income housing. Replace developer-driven rezonings with comprehensive planning.

Allow tenants to build credit by delivering the option to have rent payments reflected on credit for willing tenants. Address the intersection of domestic violence and homelessness by increasing the capacity of shelters that specialize in domestic violence, reforming lease termination laws, and providing a new statewide rent supplement to assist all survivors.

Increase the availability of stabilization beds and safe-haven beds and improve the conditions of existing shelters. Prioritize a housing first model with supportive housing, create new standards to ensure that the system has the array of services necessary to serve homeless New Yorkers, and work with the State to expand our supportive housing network by 30, beds. End agency silos regarding social services and homelessness and hold all social service agencies and organizations accountable for proactively intervening prior to entering the shelter system.

Set aside 15 percent of all city-funded units to house the formerly homeless, in order to reduce the shelter population. Expand loans to help homeowners with purchases and repairs and ensure that low- and moderate-income homeowners do not lose their homes because they are unable to pay for repairs.

Fight speculation by giving tenants an opportunity to purchase TOPA and target affordable housing dollars to help tenants who purchase their buildings create new, social housing. Allow homeowners to build accessory dwelling units on their properties. As Mayor, Scott will ensure that our city continues to be a global magnet for talent and creativity, get small businesses back on their feet, execute on detailed plans to create jobs, uplift minority and women-owned enterprises, and train New Yorkers for the jobs of the future.

Shore up city services, such as sanitation, that are key to neighborhood quality-of-life, and establish new initiatives, such as NYC Under 3, that make it possible for families to live and work here.

Invest in our world-class parks and cultural institutions to bring back our tourist economy and enhance the experience of living in the city.

Keep communities safe from serious crime by strengthening detective work, improving clearance rates, stopping the flow of guns into our city, and investing in effective violence interruption more on this in Public Safety and Justice. Expand open streets and outdoor dining. Establish a day cure period for businesses to resolve violations between getting fined.

Create a storefront incentive program to draw retail and restaurants to hollowed-out neighborhood corridors. Establish a public-facing database of vacant storefronts to facilitate reopening and match businesses with the space they need. Launch an NYC Tech Corps to help small businesses expand their digital presence and move to online platforms. Redesign local streets to build stronger neighborhoods and better serve bus riders, pedestrians, cyclists, and small businesses.

Reconfigure and realign transit service to meet the needs of a hour, five-borough economy to jumpstart recovery and better serve working New Yorkers. Tackle the digital divide and invest in the citywide buildout of 5G and universal high-speed, affordable broadband. Create a world-class workforce development program at CUNY and make community colleges free to create a true K public education system.

Establish a universal, paid internship program for CUNY students. Expand career and technical education, early college, and College Now in public schools. Develop training programs in partnership with the private sector that are aligned with ever-changing workforce needs. Bring out-of-school, out-of-work youth back into the education system with a SYEP summer jobs guarantee for high schoolers, expanded paid internships, and hands-on afterschool programs to prepare our kids for 21st century industries.

Jump-start solar installations throughout the city by increasing the solar property tax abatement and slashing red tape, and build out and maintain City-owned solar systems. Overhaul City buildings to make our schools, libraries, and public spaces hubs of sustainability.

Ensure MWBE utilization in all climate-oriented public works projects. Create a Minority Business Accelerator program pairing local MWBEs with locally headquartered corporations to diversity private sector supply chains. We are challenging the status quo, rethinking government and breaking free of traditional constraints. Joycelyn Taylor is working to realign government and private investment in an effort to create a larger, more inclusive democratic process that fixes affordable housing, supports small business, eliminates homelessness and reforms criminal justice.

Taylor for is focused on connecting with everyday New Yorkers to help them understand how they can take back their power in a positive way by holding government responsible for creating thorough common sense solutions to issues that affect them.

Imagine earning a wage that is fair and received on-time with a contract that protects your job and rights. The next generation deserves educators and resources that set them up for success. Outdated policies hurt those it was intended to protect. Change begins with partners who serve and support. Children wearing masks while doing schoolwork inside a classroom.

We have been debating for decades how to create public schools that are excellent, equitable, and serve all of our kids in innovative, diverse learning environments. This pandemic has laid bare some of the inadequacies of our system.

But we have an opportunity to transform our schools. And to think big about how to serve the unique needs of each child. We must transform rather than tinker by and invest in innovation and equity that excites residents about public schools.

We must reimagine through big ideas like high schools without walls, that would untether students from particular assignments to specific buildings to open up new opportunities for learning. We must consider how kids can virtually join classrooms for courses that they are interested in and look at repurposing vacant storefronts and buildings to provide much needed space for learning—while simultaneously supporting business owners and communities.

A transformed school system must tackle the structural inequality in our schools—inequality that cheats our students of color, low income students, students with learning differences and those experiencing housing insecurity.

And we must provide universal broadband to allow all students and families to stay connected and thrive in this age of technology. Because of the pandemic, we now have the opportunity to rethink how our education system works—including how we allocate resources. We should consider our class sizes, especially ways to reduce them. And we should consider how to support our teachers in ways that better empower them to do the kind of meaningful teaching that first called them to the profession.

And we also must consider ways to expand our investments in nurturing the unique talents and gifts of low-income students and develop new models for how to run effective individualized education programs.

Across the country we see policing work as it was intended —to contain and control those that society fears. As a result, trust in police and the government that employs them has eroded. Woman holding a sign with George Floyd's picture on it. We have real concerns around public safety. Shootings are up and too many young people are losing their lives in neighborhoods like Brownsville and the South Bronx.

Some communities are fearful of homeless residents who may suffer from serious mental health or substance use issues. Too often we make poverty a crime or criminalize people when what they need is a mental health professional, a social worker, a mediator or a job. We have an opportunity to reengineer how we respond to the crisis and non-crisis needs of our residents.

We also need leadership that will demand law enforcement accountability and culture change. Leadership that believes we can demilitarize the force while still clearly responding to and investigating serious crime, illegal guns, and threats of terrorism.

Leadership that forges real partnership and community power through both precinct-level community participation in policy and priority-setting as well as a civilian commission tasked with formal and transparent stakeholder input.

One of the greatest expenses our residents face is housing. From homeless and extremely low-income New Yorkers to the middle class increasingly feeling squeezed out of the city, affordable housing that meets the needs of all our residents seems unattainable.

This is a crisis that drives gentrification— displacing Black, Latino and Asian New Yorkers and undermines our creative economy: the artists, musicians, actors and writers who make our lives richer and our economy more vibrant.

We need rent subsidies to address the immediate eviction crisis facing our families and we must fight in Albany for universal rent protections and to preserve affordable rentals. Community planning and ownership must include community land trusts, support for first-time home ownership, and protections for long-term homeowners who are also feeling the challenges of these economic times.. We need to look for opportunities to expand our affordable housing stock by converting tax liens, buying up properties left behind in the wake of COVID and stimulating more non-profit housing development.

And health insurance costs are one of the top three biggest expenses for residents. A visitor checking on a patient who is laying in a hospital bed. The City government has considerable power to bargain for health insurance. That power can be used to bargain for coverage that can include the half a million-plus residents who are undocumented, in cash-based jobs, like sex workers, or fall through the cracks of national health policy.

We also have to invest in our public hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities that provide critical care to the communities that have been decimated by COVID and are so necessary to the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Our revenue crisis reflects, in part, a jobs crisis.

Which, in turn, has created a housing crisis and extraordinary challenges for our small businesses. This moment requires coming together to make tough decisions. But bold governance means finding ways to create more revenue, figuring out where to focus our existing resources, and determining ways to tighten the belt.

But we cannot sacrifice the basic city services that make New York City a great place to live and work; we must protect the quality of life that allows us to attract economic development and supports our small businesses. Two people in hardhats discussing construction plans. We must always remember that, for all of our challenges, we are a city of extraordinary assets. New York has so much to offer. We need to engage the full range of stakeholders, including our business community, to determine how they can contribute to our recovery.

And we have to get serious about making investments in building new infrastructure that creates jobs, makes the city more resilient and contributes to climate justice.

Indeed, this moment requires bold investment, not austerity. Major capital projects in areas like transit will quickly create good jobs to put New Yorkers back to work while transforming the city for a new era. To safeguard our climate, we must create the infrastructure to reduce emissions—charting the path towards a sustainable future and, with it, thousands of good, green jobs.

And we must encourage community ownership in renewable energy creation—generating wealth for low-income communities and communities of color. We must also establish better career pathways for our young people, including partnerships with our higher education institutions and industry, to create workforce development programs that deliver fulfilling jobs while encouraging economic growth.

The budget should be a moral document that lays out the priorities of a government and its leaders. Thanks to the economic crisis that has stemmed from COVID, our city faces the most dire revenue forecasts in a generation. We must come together to ensure that all New Yorkers contribute what they can and that every revenue option is explored. A sidewalk with garbage bags piled high. Our spending has a big impact and can further important social and economic goals. We must maximize how we spend the money we do have to ensure all New Yorkers can live in this city with dignity.

Rethinking our revenue strategies calls us to come together and ask the wealthiest New Yorkers to step up and contribute what they can. We can generate new money by leveraging city assets that businesses want to access—from our rooftops for telecommunications to our world-class workforce for industry. And finally, we will deploy the money we already spend—from school construction to flood protection—to create jobs, stimulate our economy, and increase equity and access.

For too long, politicians have said they care about income inequality, gentrification, skyrocketing cost of living, and a lack of basic public transportation for so many.

Yet here we are. Every year, our communities face the same realities, and every year politicians say they are working on it, yet nothing changes.

When COVID hit NYC the hardest, it was working people, including those in our black and brown communities, who were disproportionately affected the most, losing loved ones, closing businesses, and somehow still holding the economy together.

Working people need an increased minimum wage, expanded unionization, salary and rent protections, access to public transportation, expanded affordable housing options, subsidies for local businesses, community-driven development, and the basic dignity and respect they deserve as the backbone of our amazing city. It is time that NYC finally has a mayor that stands with working people. It has failed to gather the necessary resources to repair and maintain some of the only truly affordable housing in NYC, and people are suffering as a direct result.

Ensuring the living conditions of every NYCHA resident is improved will be a top priority on day one of a Wright administration. On the public housing front, the current administration has failed in its plan to raise funds for capital repairs for new infill projects that create mixed-income housing.

This stalled process has hurt working class New Yorkers. The Wright Administration will prioritize the advancement of infill projects. These are basic decencies no New Yorker should be expected to be without. Decision-makers upstate are too far removed from the realities facing working-class people on a daily basis in our city. We have completely under-serviced train lines, buses that never come as scheduled, and entire communities cut off from public transportation.

This is a system that millions depend on every day. It is no longer acceptable to wait for Albany to decide how NYC public transportation should operate.

We need a joint revenue and cost-sharing partnership with NY state that leaves the day-to-day operation of all NYC public transportation to the people of NYC. New projects, maintenance priority, and prices should be controlled and set by the city to best serve NYC residents. This includes the creation of a comprehensive subsidized public transport program that ensures everyone has equal access to basic transportation.

This is a start, but there needs to be more action to secure housing for those that are in dire need. Housing is a human right. It is that simple. When you consider it through a lens of what is right and what is wrong, the solutions become clear. NYC absolutely needs a comprehensive system of housing for those who are currently unhoused.

We need to think out of the box, using re-zoning laws to expand usable land for the explicit purpose of creating new affordable housing. We can take thousands of empty lots and abandoned buildings scattered throughout the city and convert them into subsidized communities for rehabilitation and job placement as done with tiny homes in cities like Seattle. We need to expand public housing projects on the city-wide level and increase mandates for affordable housing integration in all new residential construction.

With that, we also must think beyond the city and work with our amazing Congressional delegation to fight for the repeal of the Faircloth Amendment that prevents the expansion of federal dollars flowing into new public housing projects. Housing is a human right and it is time we have leadership that fights to protect the people of NYC. The relationship with the Police and reforms on criminal justice is one of the issues where both previous and current administrations have not only disappointed, but embarrassed New York City residents.

Though past and present mayors have come to power indicating they would take a more sweeping approach to reform the NYPD, the speed of change has been more akin to baby-steps, with tragic brutality incidents forcing acceptance of increased accountability and oversight of the department. The year is at its end and no viable claims have been offered to date.

For the third time, the current administration has not even considered promoting a person of color to lead the NYPD, despite numerous individuals with the appropriate rank and experience to at least merit consideration.

Those tests include whether the city could reverse the increases in murders and hate crimes, as well as pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, all while implementing additional promised reforms to bring police and community closer together, hold NYPD officers accountable for breaches of public trust, overhauling the Special Victims Division, and more. As the year comes to an end, it is clear from news accounts, protests against police brutality and the everyday experiences of the average New Yorker that this administration has failed.

Time and time again, we have seen how the legacy of broken glass policing overwhelmingly targets our Black and Brown communities. These are the communities whose voices need to be elevated when discussing police reform, and need to be represented in every step of the process.

I will only appoint a commissioner who supports:. City-wide police retraining to focus on de-escalation Demilitarization of regularly uniformed officers The creation of a mental health response organization that is separate from the NYPD Reducing the overwhelming police presence in our schools A reallocation of the bloated budget to community resources, mental health services, and education The empowering of the CCRB in an effort to hold officers who breach the public trust accountable Police accountability is only one half of the equation.

My own experiences with the justice system has been well documented, and it has given me a deep understanding of the need for change. We must stop criminalizing poverty by ending the cash bail system, eliminating court processing fees, decriminalizing low-level non-violent drug offenses, and developing a broad community-driven coalition of ideas, strategies, and policies to end mass incarceration in our city.

We must focus on restorative solutions to build a truly just system. It is inexcusable that New York City schools remain the most segregated in the country. This horrific issue has flumuxed numerous administrations from both sides of the aisle. The current mayor and his two school chancellors have proposed a series of fairly tepid, incremental initial reforms likely to come up short. The current administration did impanel the School Diversity Advisory Group SDAG , which released two sets of recommendations, with the administration adopting most of the more-mild-set first.

To date, the current administration has yet to take any significant steps,, saying only that there would be an extensive public conversation to come in order to engage parents and other stakeholders in crafting reforms. But that requires action by the state, where the proposal has not been warmly received. In other words, this proposal was all-talk and no-action, which may be for the best, as many locally elected officials and parent groups have complained that his proposal pits minorities against each other and will not have the intended effect.

The Mayor later announced he was backing off of his proposal, which included a new system for more diversified admittance to the specialized schools where Black and Latino students are severely underrepresented. He said he would come up with something new this year. The new mayor will have to contend with numerous attempts by the Governor to shift costs to the city, as he has been allowed to do in the past. Another issue that will have a major impact on the city budget in is a potential push for property tax reform, which the current administration has promised for years.

Any changes to the antiquated and unequal property tax system will have to be revenue neutral for the city, which relies on property taxes for tens of billions of dollars annually to fund the city budget. For too long, party-line officials have failed to recognize the importance of building a budget that works for working people.

As Mayor, my priorities will be dedicated towards ensuring the economics of the city are working towards the people who make it run. New York City has to be the fastest city to come back safely. New Yorkers are some of the greatest people in the world. The economy is hurting but, more importantly, families and individuals are hurting. Unemployment is unacceptably high, and we need to figure out how to keep people in their homes. The pandemic has been most devastating to the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

This means we must tackle poverty and homelessness in a meaningful way, and prevent more families from losing their homes as we face the largest eviction crisis this City has seen. We need to find ways to make the City affordable so that our people can thrive and live sustainably. It requires a plan to help our small businesses through this trying time, expanding opportunity in the City and creating a more equitable economy.

It means reopening schools and helping our children catch up and deal with the mental health toll that the past year has taken on them.

New York City taxpayers now pay hundreds of millions of dollars a year in civil settlements — funds that can be far better spent on our schools, parks, mass transit, and affordable housing.

Given the size of this bureaucracy, real change will require years of sustained effort. At the same time, good police officers need to feel supported. Violent crime is rising, as are certain hate crimes, and we need officers to protect against any further increase. Officers are frequently put in traumatic situations and the City must ensure they feel supported after appropriately responding to dangerous incidents.

As a result, we lack a citywide strategy for violence prevention, violence interruption and responding to violence after it has occurred. A commissioner will need to be able to advance the culture and support a vision for how the NYPD can be fully integrated into a larger public safety strategy. That means refocusing the NYPD to protect against and solve violent crimes throughout the City while continuing to evolve.

Pursue a residency requirement for new officers in Albany. NYPD officers are exempted from residency requirements and are allowed to live in nearby suburban counties, such as Suffolk County, even though NYC municipal workers are required to live in the five boroughs, including civilian workers in the NYPD.

A Yang administration will seek state approval to repeal this carveout so that all new officers are required to live in New York City. If we are committed to the ideals of neighborhood policing, we should have our police live in our neighborhoods. They should be a part of the civic fabric and understand the communities they protect and serve. Prevent the rise in hate crimes. Hate crimes have become an epidemic in New York City. Whether the rise in anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-semitic crimes in recent years, or the rise in anti-Asian crimes since the pandemic, the NYPD must serve as true partners to the New York City Commission on Human Rights CCHR to prevent hate crimes, targeting prevention efforts where misinformation and disinformation is spreading, proactively protecting houses of worship and neighborhoods that police intelligence determines to be at risk of heightened violence, encouraging communities to report hate violence without the fear of retribution, and full police engagement in arresting those who commit or conspire to commit acts of violence.

Invest resources into neighborhoods stricken by gun violence and ensure crimes are being solved when they occur. Shootings and the overall rise in crime are overwhelmingly concentrated in communities of color, which have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

Criminal records and poverty pushed some participants to alternative survival strategies like drug dealing or robbery, which sometimes involved carrying a gun. When an incidence of gun violence occurs — be it between community members, at the hands of police, or in a domestic dispute — communities also need to be supported through the trauma that results. The Yang Administration will invest in coordinated responses by community based organizations, mental health providers and hospitals to violence and support restorative justice practitioners, following the innovative strategies of organizations like Common Justice.

Overhaul oversight of the NYPD. However, that increased responsibility will require greater resources from the outside board. These positions need to be full-time. Further, a Yang administration would push to do away with the requirement that individuals have to physically go to the CCRB officers in Lower Manhattan for in-person interviews. Instead, they should have teams meet individuals in locations throughout the five boroughs that are more convenient. As it is, only about one-half of civilian complaints are fully investigated.

Expanded mental health counseling for officers. Under a Yang administration, new officers will automatically receive regular counseling for the first two years of their service. As officers respond to dangerous and traumatic experiences for the first time, it is essential they are able to appropriately emotionally cope with the stresses of their profession.

In , New York City reported that there were , mental health emergency calls were received by the NYPD in — approximately one call every three minutes, were made by people needing help and where there was no indication of violence. In February , the NYPD is expanding co-response teams, sending social workers out with police officers, specifically to respond to calls of people who are in mental health distress.

This program is based on similar models in Eugene, OR and Denver, CO that have reduced police response to people in mental health distress overall, and should be expanded citywide.

The NYPD does not have the capacity nor skill set to respond to many people in emotional distress or who are experiencing mental health crises, particularly those in the disability community for whom interacting with law enforcement is difficult.

We are encouraged to see the recent announcement by the City that for the first time, mental health professionals and crisis workers will be dispatched through to respond to mental health emergencies.

A Yang administration would scale this pilot program up so that it expands beyond the current two high-need communities in which it is set to begin operating February Auditing the use of surveillance technologies. Investigative reporting revealed the broad use of facial recognition by the NYPD. To date, there are no real guidelines around the use of how new surveillance technologies should be used. A Yang administration will then look to develop policies around the findings that carefully balances their benefits in preventing and solving crimes with the need to protect our civil liberties.

Program Goals For far too long, New York City has left behind far too many of our residents who struggle every single day to make ends meet - working people, people on the brink of eviction or currently experiencing homelessness, immigrant communities, young people, parents and so many more. COVID has only exacerbated racial and economic disparities that were already ever-present in a city with marked inequality.

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