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Race-Based Selective Outrage and the Criminalization of Workplace Rules
Executive Summary After more than two decades representing employees across New York’s public sector, I have seen a quiet evolution in how discrimination operates. It rarely announces itself through open hostility anymore. Instead, it hides...
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The NYPD’s Psychological Exam Is a Legal and Scientific Fiction —...
When The New York Times published its November 11, 2025 article, “How Do You Judge Whether a Police Officer Is Mentally Fit for the Job?”, it presented what it described as a serious policy dilemma: how to evaluate police officers who “fail...
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The NYPD Is Not a Political Party: Why Policing Must Remain...
I. The Manufactured Drama of Political Policing Today, The New York Times published a feature that perfectly captured the city’s moral confusion about law enforcement. Under the headline “The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in...
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A Transition Moment for New York: Why Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Must...
I. Introduction: A New Mayor, an Old Architecture Every incoming mayor inherits two things from their predecessors: a budget and an architecture. The budget is debated, amended, and voted on in public. The architecture is not. It consists of...
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Selective Ethics and Structural Retaliation: How New York City Weaponizes Chapter...
I. Introduction: When Ethics Become a Political Weapon Ethics laws are most dangerous not when they are absent, but when they are present and selectively enforced. New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Law—Chapter 68—is intended to uphold the...
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Transparency and the Rule of Law: The Department’s Misapplication of Legal...
In the interest of transparency and public accountability, The Sanders Firm, P.C. is releasing the complete record of the Department Trial in NYPD v. Detective Specialist Jaenice Smith — including both closing submissions and the official trial...
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