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Tag Archives: juveniles
A Bibliography of Police Misconduct for Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats
As I have indicated elsewhere, when working on my collection of poetry about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, I drew on news reports and headlines. While doing a little Spring cleaning, I came across the original manuscript … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Writing Projects, Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Streets of Rage
Tagged "A Bit of Justice", "Black undercover cop is shot; a case of possible 'friendly fire'", "City Hall rally rebukes Workfare, "Don't let it happen again", "Los Angeles Officer Is Held in Drug Theft in Unusual Graft Case", "Neighbors call shooting unjust", "No Way Out", "Police brutality protesters rally against 'Stolen Lives'", "Police kill suspect in domestic dispute", "Real reform can stop police brutality", "Settlement of $3 Million in Fatal Choking by Officer", "The War at Home", Amadou Diallo, being a teenager, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, BlackLivesMatter, Charles Brooks, Daniel Wise, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Ed Morales, Gore Vidal, Herb Boyd, John Milgrim, juveniles, Margaret Sena-Stahl, Michael Randall, murder, New York Amsterdam News, NYPD, Peter Richmond, Poetry, police brutality, police involved shooting, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Suspect shot by cop still in ICU
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The Slaughter of the Innocents
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, I have been rereading some of my poems in my collection about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats. I am even more disturbed now than when in 1995 I … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Justice Chronicles, Streets of Rage
Tagged being a teenager, BlackLivesMatter, cops and robbers, Growing Up, juveniles, murder, NYPD, Poetry, police involved shooting, police killing, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Slaughter of the Innocents, toy guns
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Linda Fairstein’s reckoning, not her demonization
Len Levitt, in an Op-ed piece in amNew York, 6/18/19, “The campaign to demonize Linda Fairstein,” as it relates to her behavior to convict the Central Park Five, writes that we “seem to be going through a period of racial … Continue reading
Death of a Police Officer
There’s this politically correct narrative happening right before our eyes around the killing of NYPD Officer Randolph Holder, that police lives matter more than Black lives, and other lives. Of course, this is just one more senseless killing in Gotham, … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Justice Chronicles
Tagged Al Sharpton, BlackLivesMatter, cop killing, Criminal Justice, juveniles, life sentences, Mayor Bill de Blasio, murder, NYPD, Patrick Lynch, police involved shooting, Police Unions, Randolph Holder, thick blue line, thin blue line, Tony Brown
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Just Info at “Knowledge is Power” Community Forum
On Saturday, May 16, 2015, Just Info staff, Moira Meltzer-Cohen and William Eric Waters participated in the “Knowledge is Power” community forum at New Jerusalem Worship Center in Jamaica, NY. There were about 50 people in attendance, a handful of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Research & Lived Expertise, Justice Chronicles, Streets of Rage
Tagged 113th Precinct, being a teenager, Bernard Warren, Cedric Dew, Easy Waters, Eric Waters, Ferguson Missouri, Growing Up, Just Info, Just Info Hotline, juveniles, Know Your Rights, Lt. Clarence Hopkins, Michael Brown, Mik Maurus, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, murder, New Jerusalem Worship Center, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, police involved shooting, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Webb & Brooker Inc., William E. Waters, William Eric Waters, YMCA
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Review of my book, Streets of Rage, by Isa Rock
Easy Waters’ Streets of Rage is a must read, especially for anyone who enjoys reading a good and well written coming-of-age tale. The majority of the story takes place in 1970’s Brooklyn, in the projects and surrounding area. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Writing Projects, Streets of Rage
Tagged being a teenager, Brooklyn in the '70s, Five Percent Nation, Growing Up, Jimmy Carter, juveniles, Manchild in the Promised Land, Marcy Housing, marcy projects, murder, Nation of Islam, raising black boys, Ronald Reagan, South Bronx, Streets of Rage, urban decay
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About my novel, “Streets of Rage,” soon to be released….
Streets of Rage is a coming of age story, but it is much more. It is a book about urban legends, about the mythology of the inner cities, right in the underbelly of New York City during a time when … Continue reading
“The Justice Imperative” — The Key to Criminal Justice Reform
The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream, is a book about the criminal justice and corrections system in Connecticut, but it is also a book about the criminal justice and corrections systems in the country, by the … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Research & Lived Expertise, Justice Chronicles, Reentry & Community
Tagged 1988 Presidential Election, Brian E. Moran, Cheshire CT, criminal justice language, criminal justice reform, furlough, George Pataki, Jenna Grieshaber, Jenna's Law, Joshua Komisarjevsky, juveniles, life sentences, Malta Justice Initiative, Michael Dukakis, Nicholas Eugene Pryor, Order of Malta, Parole, Steven Hayes, The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream, William Petit, Willie Horton
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William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 