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Your morning café - Sept. 2

Jueves, Septiembre 2nd, 2010

El Diario’s endorsements for NY State Senate.

Roberto Perez wonders why Congressman Rangel doesn’t acknowledge his Puerto Rican heritage and
whether his challenger Adam Clayton Powell IV has a shot.

Video: The high pressure, fast-paced jobs of NYC livery cab dispatchers and drivers.

Miss Universe visited El Diario.

Funeral services for Briana Ojeda, the little girl who died in an asthma attack. Her mother says a police officer resisted helping her as she tried to get her daughter to a hospital.

Tags: El Diario, Hispanics, Latinos
Publicado en Bronx, New York/Nueva York, Opinión, Policía/Police, Política/Politics | No Comments »

Your morning café - August 26

Jueves, Agosto 26th, 2010

Editorial: The anti-immigrant agenda of opponents to the mosque in Lower Manhattan.

Sept. Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows showed their support for the mosque in Lower Manhattan.

Next American City reports that NYC officials are skipping a conference in the Big Apple to discuss racial profiling. The participants include 27 police chiefs from around the country.

Four of the teenagers who attacked Marcelo Lucero in Long Island were sentenced to six to 7 years in prison.
The attackers admitted to targeting “beaners.”

Twitterverse: John Leguizamo can’t get enough café.

HUD regional director Adolfo Carrión speaks on foreclosure crisis for Latinos.

Israel Ortega says Hispanics come to the United States for something different. “We know what failed
economic policies look like.”

Tags: El Diario, Hispanics, Latinos, Your morning cafe
Publicado en New York/Nueva York, Policía/Police | No Comments »

Are Latinos really wanted by either Democrats or Republicans? Latina Lista poses the question while Janet Murgia says the GOP is flirting with disaster. Ruben Estrada fires that Republicans should use Harry Reid’s recent comments as a call to action.

Summit, NJ residents say police are ignoring violent attacks on Latinos.

Eleven suspected members of the Latin Kings face 25 to life sentences.

Latino and Chinese residents challenge rezoning process in Lower Manhattan.

No California dreamin’ for Latino homeowners.

Twitterverse…NJImmigration: nearly half of United States considering Arizona-style immigration legislation.

Darker skin is no protection against skin cancer, as Ivis Febus-Sampayo learned.

Tags: El Diario, Hispanics, Latinos, Your morning cafe
Publicado en Crime, Inmigration, New York/Nueva York, Opinión, Policía/Police, Política/Politics | No Comments »

Your morning café - August 2

Lunes, Agosto 2nd, 2010

Editorial: There are more cases of excessive police force and abuse that do not make front pages, if they receive attention at all. And they must be met with independent accountability.

Hispanic students were one of the groups most negatively affected with New York State changing standardized test results.

Puerto Ricans mourn the death of nationalist Lolita Lebron.

Another Mexican is attacked in Staten Island.

The superintendent of Los Angeles’ school system Ramon Cortines suggests he knows better on educational issues than Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. (During his tenure as NYC schools chancellor, Cortines also butted heads with Mayor Rudy Giuliani.)

When did Senator Lindsey Graham change his mind on immigration?

In case you missed: The Latino hiring deficit on Capitol Hill.

Tags: El Diario/La Prensa, Hispanics, Latinos, Your morning cafe
Publicado en Around the country, Educación/Education, Inmigration, New York/Nueva York, Opinión, Policía/Police, Política/Politics | 2 Comments »

Op-ed: Lessons from Puerto Rico clash

Jueves, Julio 22nd, 2010

by Eugene O’Donnell

Policing demonstrations is one of the hardest tasks that police departments anywhere face, and nowhere is it done perfectly. Even the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the most practiced agency on the face of the earth at handling all stripes of public assemblies, has not escaped criticism. Some alleged they were heavy-handed during the 2004 Republican Convention. More recently, Puerto Rico’s police department has been sharply criticized for alleged excessive force during a protest last month.

Five points should be made:

There’s no substitute for good planning
The more time the police have to plan, the better. The best police departments devote many hours to reviewing and preparing for contingencies. They look at protest sites, carefully examine deployment, and try to build in flexibility to everything they do. Open, respectful communication with protest organizers and leaders is encouraged. Good planning also means good hands-on training where officers role play confrontations and crowd control before they actually have to handle them.

Learning Lessons from Puerto Rico and off the island is vital
Every protest or large crowd the police handle should provide a wealth of ideas about how to improve handling the next event. The learning should never stop. And lessons can be learned from everywhere in the world, not just Puerto Rico. All police work is learning by doing and nowhere is this more true than in handling large gatherings and protests.

It’s Not Brutality Just Because it’s Caught on Camera
With cameras being everywhere today, police actions seem to be captured all the time. In some situations, the police have no choice but to use force on people. It never looks good, and it should be kept to a minimum, but just because there’s a picture of the police hitting someone, doesn’t mean it’s unnecessary brutality.

The Cops and the Citizens Need to be Mindful of Each Other’s Human Dignity
The police and the people on the other side of the barricades are friends and neighbors and fellow countrymen. They need to be reminded of this again and again. Some officers forget this, and engage in brutality. Some protestors use protest to break the law, incite the police and they rally support to their cause by seeking out confrontation with the police. On the mainland, some groups use hate speech when referring to police officers. This goes way beyond holding a rally to make a political statement or oppose a government policy.

The Policing Should Reflect the Values of Puerto Rico
In some places, the police plan on making mass arrests to head off serious violence. Even minor law violations result in demonstrators being placed in custody. Some police departments also deploy truly massive numbers of cops in riot gear at even small protests. This can intimidate free speech and expression. While ideas can be gathered from other places, the police-in all they do- will receive the most respect and support if they are seen as representing the values and ideals of Puerto Ricans.

Eugene O’Donnell, professor of police studies at John Jay College, is a former NYPD Officer. He taught at John Jay’s campus at the Academia de la Policia de Puerto Rico in 1994.

This op-ed was originally published in Spanish in El Diario-La Prensa’s July 15, 2010 edition.

Tags: police, protest, Puerto Rico
Publicado en On the street, Policía/Police | 3 Comments »

Guest column: NYPD Must Do Right Thing By Mentally Ill

Jueves, Marzo 4th, 2010

In 2008, Iman Morales, a 35-year old man with mental illness, fell to his death after being tasered by a police officer while standing on a ledge in Brooklyn. Later that week, the police lieutenant who gave the order and feared jail took his own life.

It became clear then that for New Yorkers with psychiatric disabilities— and the police officers given no appropriate tools to help them— New York’s criminal justice system is broken and behind the times.

Eighty cities and counties around the country have taken on new policing models to make interactions between police and people with mental illness safer for all involved and reduce arrests. But the NYPD refuses to adopt these new models despite their proven effectiveness in deescalating crises.

Instead of taking the lead, the NYPD continues to fill prisons with people with psychiatric disabilities actually in need of treatment. Even as the New York State prison population dropped by 8% in 2008, the prison population with psychiatric disabilities rose by 19%.

Last week, experts from a program in Westchester which focuses on intervention travelled to New York City to share the success of their model with the NYPD and advocates at an event organized by Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD). On Westchester’s Crisis Intervention Team, police officers work with social workers to provide support for residents with mental illness, helping them recover and keeping them, their community, and police officers safer in the process.

By making intervention their mantra, this program has prevented people with psychiatric disabilities from ending up in the criminal justice system. As Mark Guiliano, Coordinator of Westchester’s CIT and Mental Health Outreach Westchester’s CIT, puts it: “Just showing that someone cares makes a big difference.”

Unfortunately, no members of the NYPD came to talk with the police from Westchester, despite the fact that staff from the 79th Precinct in Bedford Stuyvesant— where Iman Morales was killed— had indicated they would attend. RIPPD has reached out personally to numerous police precincts in New York City to no avail. In the past, the NYPD has claimed that New York is too big to implement this more effective model of intervention. But big cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston have successfully created programs that retrain officers and reprioritize connecting people with social services, instead of sending them to jail.

How can the NYPD not implement this program? Too much is at stake— including the unnecessary harm of both people with psychiatric disabilities and the police who interact with them on a daily basis.

Olga Negron, the mother of Iman Morales, knows the stakes too intimately. “I miss him so much. My heart hurts everyday,” she has said of her son. She is not alone. The list of New Yorkers with mental illness harmed by police unprepared to help them is too long, and includes Earl Black, Rodney Mason, Alan Zelencic, Stephanie Lindboe, Khiel Coppin, Gilberto Blanco, and David Kostovski.

The NYPD must do the right thing by New Yorkers with mental illness, their family and friends— and by their own officers. Until the NYPD modernizes their tactics, each of those calls will continue to be a chance for avoidable tragedy.

Read the Spanish-language version of this column.

By Alexandra Smith, a member of RIPPD and a criminal justice advocate at the Mental Health Project at the Urban Justice Center. Mary Clare Dougherty, Co Coordinator of Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities, contributed material for this piece. RIPPD is a grassroots organization of formerly incarcerated people with psychiatric disabilities, advocates and family members.

Tags: mental illness, NYPD
Publicado en Brooklyn, New York/Nueva York, Policía/Police | 1 Comment »

LAS `MAZMORRAS` DE LA CONVENCION

Jueves, Agosto 28th, 2008

Centro de Detenciones de la Convención Nacional Demócrata en Denver

Unas bodegas ‘invisibles’ para los visitantes albergaron a los arrestados

Carmen Alarcon/Enviada especial

Denver, CO/EDLP — Decenas de personas fueron arrestadas durante la Convención Nacional Demócrata de Denver. De ellas poco o nada se supo. ¿A dónde las llevaron? EL DIARIO-LA PRENSA visitó el Centro de Detenciones, convenientemente ubicado fuera del radar del evento.

A las 11:00 a.m. el taxista no puede encontrar la dirección del Centro de Detención transitorio, localizado en el 3833 de la calle Steel, al este de Denver.

“La dirección debe estar mal”, asegura el taxista. Sin embargo, la dirección me la han dado en el Centro de Información de Seguridad y Tránsito de la ciudad de Denver. En esa dirección debe haber un centro de detención, donde hasta hoy han llevado a una tercera parte de las 143 personas arrestadas desde cuando la Convención Nacional Demócrata empezó el lunes pasado.

Pero lo único que hay visible en esa dirección es un lote vacío. Vuelvo a llamar al Centro de Información para confirmar la dirección y me dicen que es la correcta. Aquí, en medio de un barrio latino y afroamericano debe estar el centro de detención que la ciudad ha creado especialmente para la convención demócrata.- (more…)

Publicado en Around the country, Policía/Police, Política/Politics, White House | No Comments »

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