WNYC Reporter Cindy Rodriguez ran a story about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans to reform police responses to mental health crises, today, based on audio gathered from bodycam footage of the shooting, secured by NYLPI under freedom of information laws. Po …

NYLPI’s director of Disability Justice, Ruth Lowenkron, was quoted in a New York Post story today about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mental health crisis response plan, which was  issued on Tuesday. Post reporter Julia Marsh discovered that the mayor’s moote …

NYLPI’s Director of Disability Justice, Ruth Lowenkron, was quoted in an article in The City this morning, responding to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new plans to reform the way that New York copes with people who are suffering with mental health crises: “It …

Gotham Gazette reports today on the New York Police Department’s plans to finally publish a formal policy regarding the release of body-worn camera footage, following NYLPI’s recent achievement of landmark legal rulings forcing the NYPD to turn over bo …

NYLPI and a host of disability rights organizations have written to mayor Bill de Blasio asking him to institute robust reform measures to the way the city handles police crisis response. You can read the letter here. We understand the mayor will short …

New York’s Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams released a comprehensive report this morning, reenvisioning the city’s response to mental health crises to involve a peer response model. Following a shocking series of 911 calls about “emotionally distres …