Oct
There aren’t enough Cory Bookers on this planet. A true leader.
Oct
Cory Booker is Newark’s human Google.
Sep
Classic Booker.
Sep
Cory Booker’s DNC Speech
Sep
Jul
The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence. We are pouring huge amounts of our public resources into this current effort that are bleeding our public treasury and unnecessarily undermining human potential.
I see the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars being poured into the criminal justice system here in New Jersey and it represents big overgrown government at its worst. We should be investing dollars in programs and strategies that work not just to lower crime but work to empower lives.
Feb
NYPD Spying on Muslims in Newark, Mayor Cory Booker Responds Harshly
from AP:
In mid-2007, the NYPD’s secretive Demographics Unit fanned out across Newark, photographing every mosque and eavesdropping in Muslim businesses. The findings were cataloged in a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, that served as a police guidebook to Newark’s Muslims. There was no mention of terrorism or any criminal wrongdoing.
“If anyone in my police department had known this was a blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion, that strikes at the core of our beliefs and my beliefs very personally, and it would have merited a far sterner response,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker said.
“It is deeply offensive for me to do blanket surveillance for no reason other than religious affiliation,” said Booker, who called on his state’s attorney general to investigate.
from New York Daily News:
According to the report, the operation was carried out in collaboration with the Newark Police Department. But the Newark police director at the time said no local officers participated. And Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker, said he never authorized the spying and was never told about it.
Last summer, when the AP first began reporting about the NYPD’s surveillance efforts, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his police do not consider religion in their policing.
After the AP approached Booker, he said the mayor’s office had launched an investigation. “We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” he said.
