President Barack Obama Signs Law Honoring Slain Latino, Asian New York Police Officers

President Barack Obama signed a new law requiring improved disseminating of information for police officers at risk in public.

Latino Muslims Say They're Still Being Targeted by NYPD Despite Elimination of Controversial Surveillance Program

Although the New York Police Department (NYPD) announced the disbanding of its controversial Muslim surveillance program last month, a growing number of Latino Muslims living in New York City remain concerned about being watched and harassed by authorities.

NYPD Embroiled In Controversy Following Untranslated Crime Report; Why?

Deisy Garcia, 21, and her daughters were murdered by her husband even though she filed domestic abuse reports with the NYPD.

Police Confiscate Condoms for Proof of Prostitution in NYC: Why This Impacts Young, Troubled Latinos

The New York City sex industry isn't glamorous. It's dark, seedy, lurid, and the sex work that the women and, to a lesser degree, men engage in carries the risk of danger, disease, sexual violence, and abduction. There aren't many tools that the sexually exploited demographic can use, but one tool that is at their disposal is condoms. With 50 percent of streetwalkers being African American and 25 percent being Latino, and the average age of prostitute in the United States being between the ages of 12-14 years old; it's ethic teenagers who continue to suffer HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases at a high rate -particularly when police confiscate their condoms, a form harassment that's orchestrated in order to prevent sex workers from turning tricks.
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