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Kids in Jeopardy
‘I refuse to put my name to this report.’ (Courtesy of Rafael Mangual)
I quit a civil rights group because its policies will harm children.
By Rafael A. Mangual
04.19.24 — U.S. Politics
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Today, I resigned from a civil rights committee seeking to reform how child abuse and neglect is investigated in New York State. I resigned because I believe the committee’s pathological obsession with racial disparity will endanger the lives of our most vulnerable children, especially black children.

I was appointed to the New York State Advisory Commit…

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Rafael A. Mangual
Nick Ohnell Fellow and Head of Research for Policing & Public Safety at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the push for decarceration and depolicing gets wrong and who it hurts most.
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