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Hannah E. Meyers

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Hochul’s overstuffed budget strategy puts crucial discovery reform at risk

Hochul’s overstuffed budget strategy puts crucial discovery reform at risk

Hochul’s choice to bury this fight within Albany’s secret budget negotiations deprives New Yorkers of open debate — and could let criminals...

01.04.2025 7

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

If NY doesn’t amend discovery laws, proverbial ‘broken windows’ will remain broken

If NY doesn’t amend discovery laws, proverbial ‘broken windows’ will remain broken

To effectively combat NYC'S quality-of-life degradation, the state must first confront the false narrative that 'small' crimes don’t matter.

30.03.2025 10

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

NYPD’s DNA file saves teens’ lives — but know-nothing Council wants it shut down

NYPD’s DNA file saves teens’ lives — but know-nothing Council wants it shut down

With teen crime on the rise, the City Council is attacking yet another deterrent to violence and delinquency.

25.03.2025 20

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Hannah E. Meyers

Albany to crime victims: Drop dead

Albany to crime victims: Drop dead

New York's state Legislature refuses to amend a radical law that's denying justice to thousands of crime victims — and letting criminal defendants...

18.03.2025 30

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

Keeping repeat offenders off NYC streets should campaign priority one for mayoral candidates

New mayoral candidates must target rampant recidivism.

08.03.2025 10

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Hannah E. Meyers

Adrienne Adams is in thrall to the antisemitic left — and unfit to be our mayor

As City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams has repeatedly shown her willingness to use her office to condemn Jews — and her unwillingness to safeguard...

21.02.2025 10

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Hannah E. Meyers

Feds can inject some common sense in NYC — and shut down city’s ‘safe’ drug sites

President Trump should listen to his minority constituents in New York City and close the official 'safe injection' facilities that are harming their...

16.02.2025 7

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Hannah E. Meyers

What are the risks — and rewards — of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Trump alliance?

The president and mayor have become very close, critics say.

15.02.2025 4

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Hannah E. Meyers

Why New York’s ‘discovery’ laws are ready for a redo

Even Gov. Hochul has indicated they're broken.

18.01.2025 10

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Hannah E. Meyers

The subway fire slay proves NYC must stop coddling criminals

Repeat Offenders to City: Drop Dead. New York lawmakers have been viewing criminals through rose-colored glasses. The past decade of reform...

28.12.2024 9

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Hannah E. Meyers

New York voters: Don’t fail the next Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely — oust DA Bragg and the soft-on-crime radicals

A jury rightly has found Daniel Penny not responsible for Jordan Neely’s death. It is the voters of New York who are. We foolishly elected...

09.12.2024 2

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Hannah E. Meyers

NYC Administration for Children’s Services failing families, ‘trading child safety for racial equity’: Whistleblower

This “hope and prayer” approach — hoping abusive parents will suddenly change — is suited for church, not child welfare investigations, argues the...

03.12.2024 7

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Hannah E. Meyers

NYC puts social justice over child safety with deadly results: ACS caseworker

In October, New York City was horrified when 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin died hours after being found malnourished and suffering from hypothermia.

02.12.2024 50

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

Trump won’t solve NYC’s migrant problem without a return to law-and-order

New Yorkers are worried about surging migrant crime — from the murder of Georgia student Laken Riley, killed by a man whose first US destination...

30.11.2024 8

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

Adams’ woke rivals will be worse — we need a ‘fugeddaboutit mayor’

New York is in a precarious position: The ideologues jockeying for Gracie Mansion all champion policies that have made this a more dangerous, more...

27.09.2024 80

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

From public overdoses to protests: Why NYers now seem to tolerate just about everything

Over Labor Day weekend, New York saw behavior that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, when I was a New York City Police Department...

14.09.2024 3

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

NYC needs to stop worrying about NYPD optics and just pick the overall best cop

As Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigns under the growing cloud of a federal corruption investigation, New York City’s finest are in a tough...

13.09.2024 5

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers

The maddening impossibility of prosecuting $300M a year MTA fare dodgers

In the state of New York, prosecuting “minor” crimes, like fare evasion, has become impossible under discovery reform, which advantages offenders...

13.08.2024 60

New York Post

Hannah E. Meyers