Molly Biklen (’06), Associate Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, was quoted in The New York Times discussing the N.Y.P.D.’s protest response following a federal settlement mandating a tiered system of de-escalation (“Brooklyn Protest Raises Doubts About N.Y.P.D. Commitment to New Tactics,” May 20). Molly questioned the N.Y.P.D.’s ability to shift to a de-escalation approach, stating: The “aggressive response … reflected the default playbook of force and escalation that we have seen too frequently in the past.”
