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When Testimony Becomes Misinformation: NYPD’s Misstatement of New York’s Sealing Statutes...
Executive Summary The controversy arising from Michael Gerber’s November 19, 2025 testimony before the New York City Council is not a narrow dispute about the interpretation of sealing statutes. It is a case...
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When Federal Power Overreaches, Courts Must Draw the Line: What the...
In a period defined by aggressive assertions of federal authority and the steady expansion of executive power, a federal court in Albany has issued a decision that serves as both a constitutional recalibration and a warning. In United States v....
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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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