Selective Outrage Has a Second Name: Retaliation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The New York City Police Department’s current fixation on so-called “overtime abuse” is not a belated discovery of misconduct. It is...
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Insights on Complex Legal Challenges
Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
Dignity at Exit Is Not Optional: When Courts Finally Call Administrative Retaliation What It Is
In December 2025, I published Administrative Retaliation: How the NYPD Weaponizes Separation and Certification, a thought-piece grounded in years of representing officers whose service...
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Compelled Silence or Compelled Speech?
NYPD Interviews, Criminal Exposure, and the Fifth Amendment Line ...
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When Courts Become the Only Check Left
Crime Narratives, Racialized Enforcement, and the Long Arc of Constitutional Harm in New York City From Daniels, Floyd, Davis, and Ligon — and why...
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Who Gets Harmed When the Story Is Wrong
The Civil-Rights Costs of Narrative Policing in New York City Executive Summary Crime narratives do not merely describe public safety; they justify...
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Manufacturing Safety: Crime Data, Media Narratives, and Civil Rights in New York City
Executive Summary Crime has declined across the United States and in New York City in the post-pandemic period. That empirical fact is not...
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Who the Media Decides Is a Victim
Kristin Cabot. Paige Shiver. Lieutenant Quathisha Epps. And How Power, Race, and Institutional Self-Preservation Decide Credibility Executive Summary Sexual-harassment law does not collapse...
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Judge Sharpe Denies Motion to Disqualify Eric Sanders; Orders Hearing Into Plaintiff’s Submissions
Supreme Court Lifts All Restraining Orders, Finds No Conflict of Interest, and Sets January 14, 2026 Hearing to Address “Troubling” Discrepancies in...
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Public Statement on NYPD Probationary Officers, Proposed Waivers, and Pending Litigation
This Public Statement is issued in response to reports that a group of probationary New York City police officers have been advised that they...
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