Michael Sisitzky @msisitzky Twitter profile

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

In case anyone needs a refresher, the First Amendment and both New York City and New York State statutes protect the public's right to record police activities

Matthew Chayes

@chayesmatthew

2 years

“If your iPhone can’t catch that picture with you being at a safe distance, then you need to upgrade your iPhone. Stop being on top of my police officers while they’re carrying out their jobs. That is not acceptable & it won’t be tolerated”: @NYCMayor ⁩ re public recording cops

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

I never want to hear Mayor de Blasio pretend to criticize Rudy Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg’s racist policing policies or listen to him disingenuously invoke the names of Black people murdered by police in making hollow calls for accountability. This is a complete moral failure.

Emma Whitford

@emma_a_whitford

4 years

In a live press conference just now, de Blasio reprimanded protesters who were rammed by cops in patrol vehicles

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

1 month

Voted to #LeaveItBlankNY to stand in solidarity with Gaza and demand #CeasefireNOW

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

🧵I was on the call with @dr_yusefsalaam when he was stopped. I heard him ask why he’d been stopped and didn’t hear any answer from NYPD. I don’t care who you are or what type of stop it is, you should have the right to know basic info about why cops are stopping you 1/6

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

4 months

The New York City Police Department is releasing the following statement after an officer conducted a legal and professional stop of New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam’s vehicle in the 26th precinct yesterday:

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

7 months

As a Jew, I cannot emphasize enough that Israel-obsessed-non-Jew Ritchie Torres doesn’t get to decide whom among us is “fringe.”

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Every @NYCCouncil member who refused to vote to #DefundNYPD , this is what you deemed worthy of taxpayer spending. This is not some aberration, this is what the NYPD is.

michelle lh࿊࿊q

@MichelleLhooq

4 years

NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

7 months

Ritchie Torres happily stood with JFREJ and others in the NYC police reform movement until he decided his career would benefit from selling us - and the families he’d committed to advocate on behalf of - out (and then also tried to smear our largely queer coalition as homophobic)

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

@JFREJNYC

7 months

ICYMI here's @RitchieTorres with JFREJ in 2017, when he was in city council (before he betrayed families of NYers killed by police & struck up a backroom deal with the NYPD around the Right To Know Act...more on that from the families themselves here: )

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

The C in RCV stands for "Chaos"

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Basic counting error aside, it’s not a good look for white elected officials to reduce legislators of color to statistical props in an attempt to justify their own votes

Daniel Dromm

@Dromm25

4 years

And of those 9 no votes from the left only 3 were people of color. Interesting.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

In case people are wondering why there are so many “unsubstantiated” complaints against NYPD officers in the data @propublica just released, part of the reason is because the NYPD obstructs investigations, preventing CCRB from making an actual finding on the merits. Like this:

ProPublica

@propublica

4 years

New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board made 212 requests for body-worn camera footage in May. The NYPD sent only 33 responses, according to a memo obtained by ProPublica.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

When Bill de Blasio embarks on his seemingly inevitable campaign for governor and tries to brand himself as a progressive, let’s all remember that he chose this compassionless architect of cruel and racist broken windows policing tactics as his first police commissioner

Bill Bratton

@CommissBratton

2 years

You know why NY’s ‘recovery’ isn’t happening? This photo today on the E Train at 6:45am at 42nd & 8th says it all. Why should working people & tourists be subjected to this? How’s it fair to those who need services? Imagine the cops’ frustration with no support to deal with it!

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

We did it. We repealed the worst police secrecy law in the nation. New York will now be among the most transparent states for public access to police misconduct records. Thank you @Danny_ODonnell_ and @jamaaltbailey for getting this done and getting it done right. #Repeal50a

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

We are going to #Repeal50a in spite of @NYCMayor , not alongside him

Zack Fink

@ZackFinkNews

4 years

. @NYCMayor announces reforms of NYPD: -Shift funding from NYPD to youth and social services -Repeal of 50-a ( making disciplinary records of NYPD public ) -Move vendor enforcement out of NYPD -Bring community voices into NYPD leadership

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

But... this is literally, 100% what happened.

Erin Durkin

@erinmdurkin

4 years

"I disagree entirely with that assessment," @BilldeBlasio says of the premise that if well-off white people complain loudly enough, the city will move homeless people out of their neighborhood.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

If only there were someone in a position of leadership in NYC to turn that "should" into a "will."

Erin Durkin

@erinmdurkin

4 years

"If they don't, there should be penalties," @BilldeBlasio says of NYPD officers not wearing masks.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Such a glaring indictment of how legal system bends over backwards for cops when police unions get a judge to thwart core purpose of transparency law, scold gov't agency for being responsive to FOIL & block a non-party from releasing lawfully obtained records of police misconduct

Gothamist

@Gothamist

4 years

Federal Judge Blocks Release Of NYPD Misconduct Records, Orders NYCLU To Keep Records Secret

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

One of the most persistent demands at protests and rallies across NY this past week has been to #Repeal50a , a law that keeps police misconduct records secret. Tomorrow, the legislation will be before committees in both the Assembly & Senate. We’re about to #EndPoliceSecrecy in NY

NYCLU

@NYCLU

4 years

NY legislators are considering a full repeal of 50-a. This is a huge step to end the regime of secrecy of police misconduct + something that families who have lost their loved ones to police violence have been calling for years. Click below to tell your legislators to #Repeal50a

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

8 months

The disdain the mayor has for anyone who’s not a cop, or a robot, or a robot cop is truly remarkable

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

8 months

"If anyone was caught off guard," they had to have been living "under a rock," says @nycmayor on 1010 WINS, in response to criticism that he failed to communicate effectively with the public in advance of the storm

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

NYPD is clearly capable of transparency when they feel it suits their interest. I’ve NEVER seen a vehicle stop report or body camera footage released so quickly. It’s a burden to do this level of transparency for public oversight, but it’s easy when they think it helps them? 4/6

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

No, @NYCMayor we do not need to “repeal and replace 50a,” we need to fully #Repeal50a . Mayor invokes bad faith & legally inaccurate arguments about officer privacy in talking about what information 50a repeal would make public. Here’s how @nyclu broke it down at NY Senate hearing

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

9 months

NYC Jew here who would rather our elected officials not try to deepen ties with a government that is upholding apartheid, actively pursuing a judicial coup, and whose ministers endorse pogroms against Palestinian villages

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

9 months

New York City and Israel share an unbreakable bond. Our city is home to the largest Jewish population anywhere outside of Israel. We are diverse melting pots rooted in common bonds of faith and culture. Proud to sit with Prime Minister @Netanyahu today to deepen those bonds.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

The next time @NYCMayor tells you to call the NYPD to come enforce social distancing, remember that it also means inviting cops to escalate situations, target and harass people, and threaten violence. Which is what too many still view as their “essential service”

Eliel Cruz

@elielcruz

4 years

A friend recorded a video last night of the NYPD antagonizing someone in distress over a megaphone telling them to “shut the fuck up” to “suck my dick” and threatening to “slap the shit out of you” @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice this is unacceptable.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

This is the 5th consecutive year that the NY Assembly passed the #PoliceSTATAct . And now, for the first time, the Senate has done the same. Thank you @assemblymanjoe and @bradhoylman for getting it over the finish line. #SaferNYAct

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

It’s also crucial that officers be able to articulate a reason in the moment. Stops require officers meet specific legal standards in order for them to be lawful. How are we supposed to judge whether a stop is constitutional if we have no insight into why it’s taking place 3/6

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

Even though NYC law doesn’t require cops give a reason for traffic stops, NYPD claimed (after the fact) to have one. How hard is it to articulate that in the moment? Especially if this is an issue that a driver can resolve on their own to prevent future stops 2/6

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

#HowManyStopsAct is not complicated. It’s basic data, demographics on who’s being stopped and on what basis. This is the baseline level of information needed to hold police to constitutional standards. That’s the issue here. And that’s what the Council must deliver for NYers 6/6

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

Transparency can’t be selective. It should apply across the board. #HowManyStopsAct may not have direct bearing on this particular type of traffic stop, but the rationale for it is clear as can be here - we need to know the impact of and reason for investigative encounters 5/6

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 months

This is fucking pathetic

Jonathan Greenblatt

@JGreenblattADL

6 months

This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk . I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

And with 42 votes on each, the New York City Council just voted to override the mayor's vetoes of the #HowManyStopsAct and the ban on solitary confinement

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

Been there twice. It’s apartheid.

Eve Barlow

@Eve_Barlow

3 years

Israel is nowhere near an Apartheid state but I guess those who want desperately to believe that it is won’t ask anyone who’s actually been there.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio (as opposed to Candidate de Blasio) fought to expand New York’s police secrecy law, section 50-a, in order to make sure that the NYPD gets to keep outcomes in police disciplinary cases secret #FirePantaleo #EndPoliceSecrecy #Repeal50a

Grace Rauh

@gracerauh

5 years

Mayor de Blasio finally gets asked about Eric Garner and Daniel Pantaleo, spurred on Julian Castro, who first brought it up. “There is finally going to be justice in the next 30 days in New York,” de Blasio says, blaming delays in the Garner case on the federal Dept. of Justice.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

This is why organizers have been calling to get cops out of Pride - cops make queer spaces less safe. But according to folks like the NYT editorial board, we should have been more worried about cops’ hurt feelings at being disinvited than the actual harm they cause.

Meredith Cash

@mercash22

3 years

I am currently watching NYPD charge Washington Square Park with riot gear (helmets, pepper spray, batons) … potentially to break up pride celebrations? It certainly looks like they are confronting people celebrating pride from my vantage point

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

Your daily reminder that the NYPD routinely lies to the public and tries to hide the extent to which they subject New Yorkers to inaccurate and racist policing tactics and technologies.

BuzzFeed News

@BuzzFeedNews

3 years

The NYPD has said that it never had a relationship with the facial recognition company, “formally or informally.” These documents say otherwise.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

11 months

And statements like this, that equate criticism of Israeli actions with antisemitism, make Jews less safe. If you’re going to (rightly) object when people try to hold all Jews accountable for Israel, then stop linking justified criticism of Israel’s actions with an attack on Jews

Jonathan Greenblatt

@JGreenblattADL

11 months

Even for @RashidaTlaib , the level of dishonesty here is truly staggering. For starters, it’s a complete fiction. But equally important, this was a targeted action against armed terrorists who brutally murdered innocents, recklessly hid weapons under a mosque and intentionally…

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Worth noting that the commissioner, who says nothing here on blatant acts of NYPD violence, also has exclusive legal authority to decide disciplinary outcomes in all police misconduct cases, including ability to reject CCRB recs. And 50-a keeps those outcomes secret #Repeal50a

Edward A. Caban

@NYPDPC

4 years

To the Members of the NYPD: What you’ve endured these last couple of days and nights—like much of 2020, so far—was unprecedented. In no small way, I want you to know that I’m extremely proud of the way you’ve comported yourselves in the face of such persistent danger...

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

This "not what we want to see" line is so infuriatingly passive. @NYCMayor is the mayor of this city (it's right there in the twitter handle) and the NYPD (ostensibly) reports to him. If you don't want to see this in NYC, then get control of your police department.

Gloria Pazmino

@GloriaPazmino

4 years

"A lot of us have watched in pain what is happening in Portland, that is thoroughly unacceptable... so anything that slightly suggests that, is troubling and not what we want to see in this city," - @NYCMayor

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

If making it illegal to choke people and requiring basic disclosures related to official misconduct make it impossible for you to do your job, maybe your job shouldn't exist?

Gothamist

@Gothamist

4 years

"Most Of Our Powers Were Taken Away": NYPD Blames Reforms For Increase In Violent Crime

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

Always worth reminding NYers that @NYCMayor and NYPD fought @NYCLU all the way up to the state's highest court so they could keep discipline records secret. A major reason for the lack of trust in NYPD is because of this administration's shameful embrace of police secrecy.

Christopher Robbins

@ChristRobbins

5 years

@NYCMayor Is @NYCMayor going to direct his NYPD to re-interpret state law 50-a the way the NYPD used to interpret it, to promote police transparency and accountability? He didn't say, the mayor left the presser after people shouted "Fire Pantaleo!"

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

NYC budget is due July 1. @NYCMayor @NYCSpeakerCoJo @NYCCouncil can show that they’re serious about #NYCBudgetJustice by committing to #DefundNYPD by *at least* $1B. Legislating around the edges of police violence can only do so much w/o defunding the agency responsible for it

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

Today’s the day, New York. We’re finally going to #PassTheMRTA and get #marijuanajustice

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 months

Ah yes, Ritchie Torres, famously open to hearing many different points of view

Jason Rosenberg

@mynameisjro

6 months

Hilarious given the amount people he’s blocked

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

Hey New Yorkers, for every misrepresentation or outright lie you hear from the mayor about the How Many Stops Act at this press conference, put in a call or email to your City Council member and tell them to override his veto

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

4 months

Crime is down and we plan to keep it that way. Join us now at City Hall for a major public safety announcement.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

New Yorkers shouldn’t have to “hope and pray” that NYPD won’t violently attack them. Ridiculous that @NYCMayor is trying to claim that new rules will make a difference after years of his administration downplaying obvious misconduct and working to keep disciplinary info secret.

Gloria Pazmino

@GloriaPazmino

3 years

The @NYCMayor tonight: “We all hope and pray that every officer does the right thing every single time, but any officer who does the wrong thing, there’s now really clear rules.”

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

So many blatant acts of violence by NYPD on display last night. How many of those officers have a history of misconduct? Will any face consequences for brutalizing NYers? We don’t know bc NY law makes police misconduct records secret. Legislature needs to immediately #Repeal50a

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

This is why police departments and unions fought so hard to keep discipline and misconduct records secret - and why they're still trying to hide those records even after the state passed #Repeal50a . Because they knew it would expose just how little accountability actually exists.

NYCLU

@NYCLU

2 years

Our report found that: 🚨 Only 2% of complaints filed with the CCRB resulted in officer discipline 🚨 The NYPD overrode CCRB recommendations in substantiated cases 3 out of 4 times 🚨 Police misconduct disproportionately affects New Yorkers of color

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

This is now an @AnthoninePierre fan account

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

This would maybe be more convincing if the Council hadn't rushed to overwhelmingly pass a budget (weeks before it was due!) that approved education cuts

Gothamist

@Gothamist

2 years

New York City council members are demanding the Adams administration “immediately restore” funding that was cut from public school budgets for the coming school year, and fill the gap using hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent federal stimulus funds.

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Michael Sisitzky

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6 years

Anyone can go online and look up my (clean!) attorney disciplinary history. But records showing the NYPD's repeated failures to hold officers accountable for official misconduct? Secret. Because "trust us."

This Law Makes It Nearly Impossible to Police the NYPD | ACLU

www.aclu.org

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

Even the intro to the matrix itself is clearer than @NYCMayor is on this point. It does *nothing* to limit the police commissioner’s discretion or to prevent NYPD from making changes to the guidelines. Not really the “law of the land” when NYPD can ignore or change it on a whim.

Erin Durkin

@erinmdurkin

3 years

"This is now the law of the land," @BilldeBlasio says of NYPD disciplinary matrix. (It is neither law nor binding policy. It's a guideline, with the police commissioner retaining final say.)

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

NY can legalize marijuana the right way: decriminalize, expunge records, create an equitable industry, & reinvest revenue in the communities targeted by war on drugs. We can get #marijuanajustice by April 1 if @NYGovCuomo @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins put it in the budget

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

The amount of contempt the NYPD and their leadership display toward the public is astonishing. That @NYCMayor tolerates this speaks volumes

Gothamist

@Gothamist

4 years

Commissioner Shea Calls Protesters "Spoiled Brats" As NYPD Overtime Explodes

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

The mayor and police commissioner promised that the NYPD would “do better” tonight, which was a meaningless commitment from the start. We will get no accountability from either of them, which is why @NYCCouncil must #CutNYPDBudget and defund this violence. #NYCBudgetJustice

Pierre G.

@pgarapon

4 years

Wtf!!! #BlacklivesMaters #brooklynprotest

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

11 months

I will die on the hill that lawmakers (and the public!) should have enough time to actually review legislation/budgets in order to know and understand what's actually in them before voting. The lack of transparency is farcical.

justice for #WinRozario 🇵🇸

@aaronnarraph

11 months

@JenGutierrezNYC @ShahanaFromBK @KamillahMHanks @crystalrhudson @RitaJosephNYC @AriKagan47 @voteshekar @LindaLeeforNYC @ChrisMarteNYC @DarleneMealy55 @JulieMenin @CMMercedesCD46 @SandyforCouncil @carlstubbs @BobHoldenNYC @OsseChi @VickieforNYC @LincolnRestler @CouncilwomanKrj @CMKevinCRiley @CarlinaRivera @Salamancajr80 @PiSanchezNYC @Lynn4NYC @althea4theBX @mvelaznyc @InnaVernikov @CMNantashaW @juliej_won @KalmanYeger “I vote NO on this mayor’s austerity budget that guts services and calls it a win,” says @nycDSA comrade and Sunset Park and Red Hook councilmember @alexaforcouncil . She says she could not review the capital budget because she was only handed it when walking in. Thank you!🌹🌹

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

An arrest is a consequence. A criminal prosecution is a consequence.The potential for conviction is a consequence. What would bail have solved here, beyond detention based on poverty? If she were wealthy enough to pay bail, would her release also count as no consequence?

Chaim Deutsch

@ChaimDeutsch

4 years

A woman who attacked three Jewish women in an anti-Semitic assault has been released with no bail. This is the world of no consequences we live in now- where you can be charged with a hate crime & released hours later. Sign on to oppose these reforms:

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

A few thoughts after NYC Council passed #POSTact by 44-6 vote: NYPD's constant fear mongering erodes what little credibility they have left (esp since other cities already make this info public) Mayor already said he'd sign If NYPD tries to evade compliance, we'll be watching

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

4 years

The broad language in the POST Act would include sensitive & confidential technology used by undercover police officers on the most dangerous assignments. Publicly disclosing this technology would compromise their safety & effectiveness. Read more ⬇️

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

Not only did NY just legalize cannabis with the #MRTA , it also explicitly acknowledged and accounted for the fact that this is first and foremost a racial justice issue. Huge credit to the years of organizing and advocacy by @Kassandra_Fred & @mooremeliss that made this possible

DPA NY Policy Office

@DPA_NY

3 years

VICTORY: NY has moved marijuana legalization the RIGHT way by passing #MRTA in the Legislature tonight! This legalizes marijuana for adult use, addresses the harms of overcriminalization, & establishes one of the most ambitious marijuana legalization programs in the nation 🧵

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

If your job lets you drive SUVs into crowds of people without consequence, your job should not exist.

Gloria Pazmino

@GloriaPazmino

4 years

Officers who were driving the SUVs who drove into protesters a few weeks ago will not be facing disciplinary action. The @NYCMayor says he wants to see a "clearer. faster. disciplinary process" but does not say why or if he believes these officers should have been disciplined

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Every morning the past couple weeks, I've had to just take a moment to breathe and to remind myself, "I will not be gaslighted by @NYCMayor about #Repeal50a today."

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

4 years

Mayor de Blasio is starting this morning's press conference touting Albany's repeal of 50-A, a law that his administration re-interpreted to make it harder for the public to access police records. This is "how you build faith and trust," he says, of the legislation.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

7 years

I picked a stressful day to start tweeting. #myfirstTweet #SaveACA

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

In 2013, Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign stressed the importance of external and independent oversight of the NYPD. In 2018, we're back to letting the NYPD police itself. And then making sure they get to keep the outcomes of any internal disciplinary investigations secret.

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

5 years

This was a disturbing incident. Like anyone who’s watched this video, I have a lot of questions about how this was handled. NYPD & HRA will get to the bottom of what happened.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 months

NYC Council passes #HowManyStopsAct with a supermajority on both bills 🎉

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Easy to say when talking about another city’s police department. But it took 5 yrs for NYPD to fire cop who killed Eric Garner. Delrawn Small’s killer is still employed. And de Blasio and NYPD have done everything in their power to keep police misconduct records secret #Repeal50a

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

4 years

This nation has devalued the lives of Black men for centuries. It has to end. And it will only end when there are consequences for those who do wrong. These officers need to be charged immediately.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

Shameful that the NYPD skips out at last minute on #Repeal50a hearing. The agency that is most responsible for expanding police secrecy law owes it to the public and to lawmakers to show up and answer basic questions. But their commitment to police secrecy is at least on display.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

I just... please make it stop.

Erin Durkin

@erinmdurkin

3 years

NYPD will now have "greeters" at police precincts to improve customer service - @BilldeBlasio acknowledges cops have been "not respectful," often "gruff and dismissive" when someone comes in to file a report or seek help.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 years

How @RuPaul makes me feel every Thursday #DragRace #AllStars3

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

Reflecting on the tireless advocacy of the moms of Eric Garner, Ramarley Graham, Sean Bell, Mohamed Bah, Anthony Baez, and so many others as I walk to my #NYCVotes #EarlyVoting site to cast a #YesOn2 vote for police accountability

CPR Action

@CPRAction

5 years

Without the @CCRB_NYC , #EricGarner ’s killer would still be an NYPD cop. Let that sink in. Vote #Yeson2 for police accountability. #NYCVotes #Election2019

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

NY Sen Codes Cmte must vote #NoOnS335 . S335 would make being a cop a protected class for hate crimes prosecution. Instead of addressing practices that lead to unnecessary deaths and erode trust, S335 is nothing more than a backlash against calls for fair and accountable policing

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

8 months

Please interview the woman in the green jacket for every "oh no, big cities are scary" piece from now on

Kat Abu

@abughazalehkat

8 months

Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

How are broken windows tactics that target same communities hit hardest by COVID-19 an essential service? Instead of funding this nonsense, we can reduce NYPD budget & invest in actual health & safety #NYCBudgetJustice : PS: you’re wearing your mask wrong

NYPD Chief of Transit

@NYPDTransit

4 years

Some people may disagree - but transporting ziplock bags of marijuana & a digital scale in your backpack does not make you an essential traveler in the eyes of the Transit police. Hopping a turnstile while doing so didn’t help either. Nice grab by our District 1 team!

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

People who send calendar invites and set the reminder to "none" are either 1) expressing confidence in my ability to function as an adult and to be on top of my schedule, or 2) deliberately trying to sabotage me

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 years

It was said today that the @NYCCouncil shouldn't give advocates (read: the people and communities our elected officials represent) a veto in the legislative process. Apparently the NYPD still got to keep theirs over one half of the #RightToKnowAct .

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Hey @NYCMayor and @NYPDnews , how are you going to threaten people with arrest for violating curfew and being out in public while simultaneously making it impossible for people to get home?

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 months

I asked what terms other than “ethnic cleansing” he’d be ok with and called out his faux outrage over anti-Palestinian legislation. But our enmity goes way back to his Right to Know Act betrayal (and his snippy DMs to me when I commented on his PBA endorsement) #BlockedByRitchie

Julia Bacha

@juliabacha

6 months

@mynameisjro We should do a thread - what did you say that made @RepRitchie block you? I asked him to define ethnic cleansing.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

We already saw what happens when NYPD enforces social distancing. Police hand out masks to white people and violently arrest Black and Brown people. It's why we need to #DefundThePolice and invest in actual public health solutions instead of trying to fix every problem with a cop

Zach Williams

@ZachReports

4 years

NEW: Cuomo says indoor dining *might* happen *if* NYC allocates a certain number of NYPD police to a taskforce to enforce social distancing "Put together a task force of NYPD Speaker Johnson and say they're going to be 4k police who are going to be doing restaurant compliance"

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Courtesy of a mayor and police commissioner who are fundamentally unwilling to hold officers accountable and a City Council too spineless to cut the NYPD’s budget.

Andrew Joseph

@AndyJ0seph

4 years

@jasonemiller @bfishbfish

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

The number of times the phrase "this is about transparency" has been invoked to block questioning of public officials during this inquiry is really something

Nick Pinto

@macfathom

3 years

As King continues his questioning, Stephen Kitzinger of the Law Department objects: King is disregarding the judge's admonishment not to "try to uncover whether any documents are missing." he says. "We need to move on. This is about transparency." Edwards agrees: "Move on."

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

This is why we fought to #Repeal50a . And this is what the police unions so desperately do not want the public to see. Every complaint, every allegation of misconduct against NYPD officers and lodged with the CCRB is now public.

NYCLU

@NYCLU

4 years

NEW: Following a ruling from the Second Circuit, we have published the database of NYPD misconduct records from the CCRB. The database contains extensive info about decades of misconduct complaints. We are making them public for the very first time:

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

7 months

A good friend said my posts give cover to antisemites and I won’t be “exempt from the next Holocaust.” I understand the raw emotion and pain, but for Jews to tell each other we can’t call out Israel’s obvious crimes without inviting genocide on ourselves - it’s so hard to process

Jason Rosenberg

@mynameisjro

7 months

There is just so much loss to be mourned. Some of which include lifelong friends. I am personally so heartbroken and hurt. People who know me and my values are choosing vitriol over conversation. There aren't words to describe this betrayal and pain.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

Have they tried turning the Council off and then back on again?

City & State NY

@CityAndStateNY

2 years

Adrienne Adams, Francisco Moya both declare victory in the council speaker race – which is impossible:

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

I still remember the first conversation I had with @jamaaltbailey two years ago about why we needed to #Repeal50a . How clearly he got it, how committed he was to fighting for accountability for families devastated by police violence. Today, the Senate voted to repeal. TY, Senator

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

John Kasich saying that the main takeaway right now is that Democrats need to listen more to Republicans can fuck all the way off

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 years

Things that are "controversial" to the NYPD: 1) telling NYers the names of officers stopping them and basic reason why they're being stopped. 2) Not abusing the 4th Amendment. So you know. Basic transparency and accountability is "controversial." Why NYC needs the #RightToKnowAct

Communities United for Police Reform

@changethenypd

6 years

It's not controversial to protect New Yorkers' rights. The only thing controversial is the political obstruction blocking these bills from being passed. It's time for lead sponsors to pass coalition-supported #RightToKnowAct before this session concludes at the end of the year.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

You didn’t end stop and frisk, you hired Rudy Giuliani’s broken windows-embracing police commissioner as your own, you helped to block and then water down basic police reform legislation, and you’ve fought every effort to make police misconduct records public

Bill de Blasio

@BilldeBlasio

4 years

As the guy who actually ended the Stop + Frisk policy + settled the lawsuit + sent Bloomberg’s police commissioner packing, let me answer that question: YES, stop and frisk was racist! And @MikeBloomberg stood by it til last year. If he weren’t running for Pres, no apology

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

The NYPD & @NYCMayor were so proud of Pantaleo's "admirable" record that they fought in court to keep it secret. A record that, when leaked, showed he "had among the worst CCRB disciplinary records on the force two years before his encounter with Garner."

Courtney Gross

@courtneycgross

5 years

. @NYPDONeill says before Garner, Pantaleo had an admirable record

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 months

Who knew the NYPD could produce body camera footage so quickly. Guess there’s no reason they can’t similarly turn footage over just as fast to the CCRB, journalists, and the public when asked going forward, right?

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Few things bring me as much joy on a summer Friday in this post- #Repeal50a world as a federal judge rejecting police union arguments against basic transparency

New York Daily News

@NYDailyNews

4 years

A federal judge denied a group of police union’s request to stop the city’s independent police oversight agency from publishing police misconduct records online.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

It is profoundly inappropriate to equate cops with groups who face discrimination based on immutable traits. S335 trivializes the unique and specific vulnerabilities of historically persecuted groups to score a political point, which is why Senators must vote #NoOnS335

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

Rain (police accountability) on me #Repeal50a

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

1 year

The transcription from this interview decided that my last name was actually an age, so excuse me while I go die now

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

All I want for Christmas is you(r NY elected officials to #Repeal50a )

Mariah Carey

@MariahCarey

4 years

Please help #Repeal50A , a New York law that shields police wrongdoing by hiding records of misconduct, complaints, and abuse. Help end the violence by taking action now: @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

6 years

There was only so much time remaining of my youth (already debatable) and this stalled #MTA 2 train has robbed me of what little I had left. Thanks @NYCTSubway and @MTA

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

It’s really something watching big law firms tweet out statements about #BlackLivesMatter and the work they’re doing to be effective allies... but then go into court representing police unions actively seeking to undo that work

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

This is the violent agency whose budget @NYCMayor keeps defending (while he disingenuously tweets about honoring Black trans people). We are literally paying cops overtime to beat up queer people at Pride. @NYCSpeakerCoJo @NYCCouncil need to #DefundNYPD for #NYCBudgetJustice

Eliel Cruz

@elielcruz

4 years

These cops just got ran up on people

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

NYPD to City Council: We support changes to 50-a to let us release disciplinary decisions & names of officers. They say now. After fighting @nyclu in court to keep those records secret & winning a Court of Appeals decision making 50-a even worse. #EndPoliceSecrecy #Repeal50a

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

2 years

120 months later, just uploaded what should be my final employer certification for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (thanks for making me feel old, PSLF). Will revisit this thread once the terrifying number below goes away. How it started... (1 / [eventually & hopefully only] 2)

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

4 years

I might have zero control over my schedule today and an obscene amount of writing to get done, but I just successfully maneuvered a paper towel in front of my cat before she coughed up a hairball that would have otherwise gotten on the rug, so I think that makes today a win.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

This from the guy whose default response to clear cases of NYPD violence is, “Well, I haven’t seen the video.” Police are harassing and killing Black and Brown people right here in NYC because you continue to give them all the tools and power to do so. #DefundThePolice or STFU

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

3 years

When will this country stop killing Black and Brown people? Adam Toledo was a child. Young men of color are consistently treated as lethal threats regardless of what they do. It has to stop. Everywhere. Now.

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

5 years

In Albany with @startsmartNY calling on @NYGovCuomo @CarlHeastie and @AndreaSCousins to put #marijuanajustice in the NY State budget by April 1

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

3 years

This dashboard is more interested in telling you how many times NYPD gave awards to cops than it is in telling you how many times those officers have faced excessive force charges. This is fake transparency from the same people who worked so hard to expand 50-a in the first place

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Michael Sisitzky

@msisitzky

7 months

Hamas atrocities don’t excuse Israeli ones. If Israel still controls Gaza borders and entry of humanitarian aid, it’s still the occupying power. Listen to any Israeli gov’t official re genocidal intent. Smearing Jews as antisemites doesn’t change that there’s no military solution

Jonathan Greenblatt

@JGreenblattADL

7 months

Who in their right mind can watch Hamas terrorists commit atrocities, brutally murder civilians, kidnap children & elderly, & then protest Israel’s right to defend itself??? Let’s get a few things straight: 1. Israel does not occupy Gaza – Hamas does. 2. Stop with the absurd

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