Adrienne Wells
@AdrienneLWells
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Appellate public defender, parent, wannabe chef.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined August 2012
“The body’s not here yet”, “we’re gonna go check for the bodies”. I hear these everyday in court. When you don’t have to call them humans it’s easy to not treat them as human.
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RT @zellnor4ny: Allow me to reintroduce myself: I’m Zellnor Myrie, and I believe New York City needs a new leader prepared to take on the e….
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RT @zellnor4ny: It's beginning to feel like Groundhog Day. The NYPD, Department of Health, and NYC Public Schools are three of the city's….
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RT @msolurin: I know this isn’t you who passionately defended NYPD shooting an 18 year old in the head for running a read light last year?….
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RT @twylajcarter: The @NYPDPC's budget is 30x @LegalAidNYC. The budget to make an arrest should not be 30x more than the rest of the entire….
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RT @BreeNewsome: Sir you just revived the previously disbanded NYPD unit that murdered Amadou Diallo in 1999.
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RT @brianpmangan: Fact-checking and editing the New York Times's predictably bad coverage of #NoOnLaSalle and the historic major victory fo….
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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s choice of Justice Hector LaSalle to become the state’s top judge caused an intraparty Democratic battle that divided a judicial hearing on Wednesday.
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Except poor people.
There’s NOTHING I hate more than rats. If you have the drive, determination, and killer instinct needed to fight New York City’s relentless rat population — then your dream job awaits. Read more:
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RT @MollyGriffard: This is why New Yorkers don't trust your police department, @NYCMayor. Shame on @NYPDnews & @NYPD71Pct for proudly decor….
gothamist.com
A passage opening Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 short story “On The Blue Water" is currently inscribed on the wall of the 71st precinct in Crown Heights and reads, “Those who have hunted armed men long...
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RT @marie_defender: .@GovKathyHochul’s pro incarceration plan is so far removed from bail “reform” that we get officially retire that word….
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RT @msolurin: NYPD is one police department for a single city with a $10.3 BILLION budget. For context, the entire Ukrainian Military gets….
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RT @artemis_nieves: I honestly forget how insane it is to be a defense attorney in NYC. In 2019, prosecutors used to justify not having tu….
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RT @LegalAidNYC: #MustRead OpEd in today's @NYLawJournal from our Decarceration Project's Bridgette Bissonnette, Michelle McGrath and Jane-….
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The "dangerousness" standard of judges determining whether to set money bail is rooted in America's history of chattel slavery and will lead to racist outcomes and more pretrial detention.
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RT @GloriaPazmino: "The dangerousness standard is a relic of chattel slavery" - @marie_defender . @NYCMayor wants judges to have discretion….
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This is nauseating.
Incredible how officers are described as being shot, but bullets merely “pass through” “reputed gang members”
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RT @KSimpsonHere: The COVID data coming out of NYC jails is. beyond staggering. Today's report shows a 7-day avg positivity rate of 37%, w….
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RT @mkkaishian: COVID is only taken seriously by DAs (even the “progressive” ones) when they can use it as an excuse to toll chargeable tim….
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RT @martylafalce: “Until ten days ago, for the past several months our COVID positivity rate was consistently hovering at approximately 1%.….
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RT @Foxsquire: Truly we are in a *moment* to get their attention. Please fill this out, it takes a minute. Organizing is 1 to 1. It's perso….
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RT @VOCALNewYork: Our statement in response to Mayor-elect Eric Adams comments on bail reform.
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RT @msolurin: Rikers isn’t understaffed, it’s mismanaged, overcrowded, and in humane. In fact, Rikers has 7230 corrections officers, signif….
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Twelve people have died at the jail so far this year. The reasons for the crisis are more complicated than city officials say.
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