Jumaane D. Williams

Jul 25, 2024 | nydailynews.com | Jumaane D. Williams

The How Many Stops Act — a bill to bring basic transparency to NYPD interactions with the public — began its implementation on July 1 after a long campaign by the mayor to mislead the public about the bill, veto it, and be overridden after months of spreading misinformation. But rather than give New Yorkers the confidence that City Hall will faithfully execute the laws, the mayor is trying to rewrite the rules.

Mar 29, 2024 | amny.com | Jumaane D. Williams

Pain and grief are overwhelming our city this week. On Monday night, Officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed during a traffic stop. Two days later, Win Rozario was shot and killed by officers responding to his own 911 call for help. In between, Jason Volz was killed when he was pushed onto the subway tracks. All of this comes barely a week after Samiya Spain was killed in a stabbing outside a Brooklyn deli.

Dec 20, 2023 | nydailynews.com | Jumaane D. Williams

If you ask the Adams administration, there is no solitary confinement in New York City's jails. Or there is, but it's called punitive segregation. Or wait, it's not punitive, it's for safety. Or hang on, we oppose solitary confinement morally, but we need it to keep Rikers safe. Or no, Rikers is unsafe and that's why we can't ban solitary confinement. Clearly? The United Nations has designated solitary confinement as torture.

Oct 6, 2023 | cityandstateny.com | Jumaane D. Williams

Is the Adams administration living under a rock? They seem to be the only ones in the city who haven’t acknowledged that when it comes to alerting New Yorkers about potential hazards, they’ve repeatedly done too little and too late. It’s time to sound the alarm. New Yorkers would be forgiven for not knowing about the hazardous conditions that led to flash flooding around the city last Friday until after they woke up, sent their kids to school and went to work.

Mar 21, 2023 | bxtimes.com | Sonia Lawrence |Jumaane D. Williams

The city is hemorrhaging nurses from hospitals run by NYC Health + Hospitals and the mayoral agencies. With low pay and chronic crisis-level understaffing, nurses are quitting in droves and either retiring early or going to the private sector where they can make a better living. To maintain quality care for our city’s most vulnerable patients, we must take action to retain trained, experienced nurses at the bedside.