A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

“I serve as a focal point, because everybody else on the team is specializing. The chief of staff is the one that needs to bring that all together and make sure it's heading in the right direction..”

In March 2026, ISLG partnered with the CUNY Graduate Center to convene leading researchers and practitioners to discuss how the police can us everyday interactions to strengthen trust and enhance public safety.

Studying real, case-level data from cities and counties reducing their jail populations has led researchers to a conclusion: pretrial reforms made through the Safety and Justice Challenge did not lead to rising rates of crime, violent of otherwise. Two new analyses show this trend on both a initiative-wide and county-specific level.

Each Fellow—and the CBOs in which they are embedded—works on meaningful initiatives designed to foster voter education and engagement. But each Fellow’s work looks different day-to-day or overall. The South Bronx is a diverse, multifaceted collection of communities, and the CBOs that serve it have a wide range of services, programming, and target populations.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

The timely resolution of court cases is a responsibility of the court system. But many criminal courts struggle to resolve cases in reasonable timeframes, with case processing times increasing even when court filings decrease.

Amid mixed results to date, policymakers can insist on better implementation of New York’s discovery reform, provide prosecutors with whatever tools they need, and steadfastly avoid sacrificing the due process rights of people facing charges. This joint piece is a collaboration between two of CUNY’s preeminent research organizations to get us there.

“Following a decade of economic growth in New York City and the enactment of high-earner income tax increases in 2021, this report provides an updated and comprehensive picture of the fiscal flow between New York City and New York State.”

Affordable housing is a priority issue for state and local governments across the country. One unique method these policymakers have to incentivize the creation of more housing is strategic property tax policies that target vacant or underutilized properties.