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Lawmakers move to end ‘policing for profit’ in New York

by Tim Williams

October 5, 2020

Oct. 5, 2020 – We took a look at a legislative push to end the system of fines and fees levied against New Yorkers in the criminal justice system. We heard from Katie Schaffer, Director of Organizing and Advocacy at the Center for Community Alternatives, and Robin DelPiore, member of the Center for Community Alternatives and mother of an incarcerated New Yorker, about this system.