From Quality of Life to Quality of Community Enforcement
From Quality of Life to Quality of Community Enforcement – Shifting enforcement focus from punishing minor annoyances to upholding standards of mutual respect and shared space care.
Tag: NYC
Funding Indigenous Cultural Revitalization
Funding Indigenous Cultural Revitalization – Dedicating city resources and land access to support the cultural practices, languages, and arts of Native American and Indigenous communities in NYC.
Grieving Together: City-Supported Spaces for Collective Loss
Grieving Together: City-Supported Spaces for Collective Loss – Creating public rituals and dedicated spaces for communities to mourn collective tragedies, from violence to displacement.
Guaranteed Income Pilot for Career Artists
Guaranteed Income Pilot for Career Artists – A multi-year pilot providing a monthly, no-strings-attached stipend to a cohort of working artists to study its impact on creativity and stability.
Honoring Local Heroes: A Hyper-Local Recognition System
Honoring Local Heroes: A Hyper-Local Recognition System – Creating civic rituals to celebrate the everyday contributors who make neighborhoods work.
Honoring the Mayors of the Block: Informal Leaders
Honoring the Mayors of the Block: Informal Leaders – A system to identify, support, and collaborate with the natural, unofficial leaders who hold neighborhood knowledge and trust.
From NIMBY to YIMBY to OURBY: A New Philosophy of Development
From NIMBY to YIMBY to OURBY: A New Philosophy of Development – Shifting the development debate from opposition or blanket acceptance to community ownership and control.
From Online Groups to IRL Meets: City-Facilitated Gatherings
From Online Groups to IRL Meets: City-Facilitated Gatherings – Actively helping digital community groups (parenting forums, hobbyists) hold their first in-person meetups in public spaces.
From Patrol Cars to Care Carts: Mobile Service Delivery
From Patrol Cars to Care Carts: Mobile Service Delivery – Replacing some marked police cruisers with mobile units staffed by social workers and nurses that bring services directly to where needs are.
From Security Cameras to Connection Cameras: Reframing Surveillance
From Security Cameras to Connection Cameras: Reframing Surveillance – A pilot program replacing punitive surveillance with technology designed to foster positive interaction and mutual aid.
From Suspicion to Synergy: Mamdani on Police-Free Community Interactions
From Suspicion to Synergy: Mamdani on Police-Free Community Interactions – Designing public systems where initial contact is with a helper, not an enforcer, to build trust and provide real support.
Ending No-Knock Warrants: A Mamdani Executive Order
Ending No-Knock Warrants: A Mamdani Executive Order – Banning the NYPDs use of high-risk, unannounced raids that have led to tragic deaths and community terror.
Ending Regents Exams as a Graduation Requirement
Ending Regents Exams as a Graduation Requirement – Replacing the high-stakes, standardized Regents Exams with performance-based assessments developed by teachers and schools.
Disarming Traffic Stops: A Mamdani Plan to End Deadly Escalations
Disarming Traffic Stops: A Mamdani Plan to End Deadly Escalations – Removing armed police from routine traffic enforcement to eliminate a major source of violent and racially biased police contact.
Dissolving Gang Databases and Terrorist Watchlists
Dissolving Gang Databases and Terrorist Watchlists – Ending the secretive, racially biased labeling of individuals as gang affiliates or terrorism suspects without due process.
Ending Corporate Sponsorships and Marketing in Schools
Ending Corporate Sponsorships and Marketing in Schools – Banning exclusive beverage contracts, branded educational materials, and advertising in schools to protect students from commercial exploitation.