World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
Kelly, Flinching a Bit, Looks Back With Head High
Keywords:
Tags:
Powell and Rashbaum's interview with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Kelly changed the idea that crime was an everpresent fact of urban life in the heart of America's cities. He also considered increasing the number of officers alone as a political number not related to improving safety. Crime reduces the quality of life in inner city neighborhoods and in downtown areas and a safe city benefits all communities. Could this have been done without "stop and frisk" or had things deteriorated to the point that such measures had to be resorted to is the controversy surrounding the tactics. This had less to do with the increasing inequality in the city that the new Mayor De Blasio cited in the election, which was aggravated by the 2008 financial crisis and cuts in state and federal funding, which affected minority communities disproportionately.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly- 2000-2013
12/30/2013
A significant drop in the crime rate in New York City making it a much safer city, and the controversy of the "stop and frisk" tactics used by the department during Kelly's 14 years in office.
Grouped Articles
Kelly, Flinching a Bit, Looks Back With Head High
New York Times 12/30/2013
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York 2013-
09/22/2013
A progressive becomes Mayor of New York after 20 years of Republican Mayors Guliani and Bloomberg. Bloomberg was from the business community and focussed on services operating efficiently in running the city. Concern that any deterioration in operation of city services could affect Blasio's popularity.
Grouped Articles
A Mayoral Hopeful Now, de Blasio Was Once a Young Leftist
New York Times 09/22/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2013
De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor in Landslide
New York Times 11/05/2013
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
New York Times 11/05/2013
Many Black New Yorkers Are Seeing de Blasioâs Victory as Their Own
New York Times 11/10/2013
His Roots in Italy, de Blasio Now Has Fans There
New York Times 11/14/2013
Bloomberg's record fighting poverty and helping the homeless in New York City
12/18/2013
Grouped Articles
Bloomberg's Real Antipoverty Record
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2013
Immigration Remakes and Sustains New York, Report Finds
New York Times 12/18/2013
Kelly, Flinching a Bit, Looks Back With Head High
New York Times 12/30/2013
Outside the Spotlight, Bill de Blasio Wages a War on Inequality
New York Times 01/08/2015
The Millions of Americans Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Barely Mention: The Poor
The New York Times 08/11/2016
Mayor Bloomberg of New York City
06/20/2011
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/14/2013
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
New York Times 11/05/2013
Bloomberg Focuses on Rest (as in Rest of World)
New York Times 12/14/2013
Bloomberg's Real Antipoverty Record
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2013
A Valedictory Radio Chat for Bloomberg and for His Host
New York Times 12/20/2013
Revisiting a Long-Forgotten Chat With Candidate Bloomberg
New York Times 12/26/2013
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and minorities
11/10/2013
Grouped Articles
Many Black New Yorkers Are Seeing de Blasioâs Victory as Their Own
New York Times 11/10/2013
His Roots in Italy, de Blasio Now Has Fans There
New York Times 11/14/2013
De Blasioâs Tale of 2 New Yorks Inspires Liberals Beyond City
New York Times 12/20/2013
Kelly, Flinching a Bit, Looks Back With Head High
New York Times 12/30/2013
Grading Bill de Blasio’s First Year as New York City’s Mayor
New York Times 01/08/2015
Outside the Spotlight, Bill de Blasio Wages a War on Inequality
New York Times 01/08/2015
New York Mayor Bloomberg's initiative to help minority youth and his other initiatives
08/03/2011
Grouped Articles
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
New York Times 11/05/2013
Bloomberg's Real Antipoverty Record
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2013
Kelly, Flinching a Bit, Looks Back With Head High
New York Times 12/30/2013
Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth
New York Times 08/03/2011
Wall Street Journal 08/26/2011
What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/07/2011
The lasting legacy of New York Mayor Bloomberg
12/27/2011
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/14/2013
New York Times 12/27/2011
The Impossible Mayor of the Possible
New York Times 08/16/2013
Poll Shows New Yorkers Are Deeply Conflicted Over Bloombergâs Legacy
New York Times 08/16/2013
A Mayor Who Puts Wall Street First
New York Times 08/16/2013
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
New York Times 11/05/2013
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us