According to court documents filed by New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, the city’s Department of Correction received 116 allegations of sexual abuse at Rikers Island in 2014, but reported only two of those to the NYPD. Of those 116 cases, 61 were allegedly carried out by Rikers staff.

Each year, New York City's public advocate compiles a list of the worst landlords in the five boroughs. Topping the 2014 rouges gallery is Robin Shimoff, a slumlord living in a $1.2 million mansion in Rockland County.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James unveiled a proposal yesterday that would outfit NYPD officers with body cameras to record their interactions with the public. After the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, James said, cameras "would go a long way toward providing an objective record of what happened either before or after an incident."