AVANT GARDE ARTISTS IN NEW YORK CITY FOUGHT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES AFTER IT WAS BANNED FOR OPENING “ALL THE SECRET SEWERS OF VICE” IN 1920.

NEW YORK STOLE MOHAWK LAND IN 1796. NOW THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE IS ABOUT TO WIN THE RIGHT TO BUY IT BACK IN A LANDMARK LEGAL SETTLEMENT. BUT SHOULD IT BUY IT OR SHOULD NEW YORK GIVE IT BACK?

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH 38 FEDERAL FELONIES FOR BASICALLY STEALING TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS AND TRYING TO COVER IT UP. BUT HE’S HOLDING SEVERAL ACE CARDS THAT, IF HE PLAYS THEM RIGHT, COULD GET HIM ACQUITTED AND RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT.

NYPD OFFICER JUSTIN VOLPE RAPED ABNER LOUIMA WITH A BROKEN BROOM STICK IN A BROOKLYN POLICE PRECINCT BATHROOM IN 1997. HE QUALIFIED FOR EARLY RELEASE UNDER TRUMP LAW.

FORMER PROSECUTOR JANET MILLS IS POSING AS A PROGRESSIVE WHILE OVERSEEING 'LITTLE MISSISSIPPI' CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF CHRONICALLY UNDERFUNDED COURTS AND INDIGENT DEFENSE

WILLIAM “WILD BILL” STANTON IS A FORMER NYPD ROOKIE WHO MADE MILLIONS AS A CELEBRITY BODYGUARD AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR WHILE COLLECTING MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS IN DISABILITY PAYOUTS. NOW HE’S FOX NEWS’S FAVORITE COPAGANDIST.

“YOU COVERED TOO MANY MURDERS TO BE KILLED. DEATH BECOMES YOU. YOU WEAR IT LIKE A TAILORED SUIT. LIKE A TALISMANIC NECKLACE OF BONES TO WARD OFF EVIL-DOERS.”

THE ‘BYSTANDER EFFECT’ AND SMARTPHONE CULTURE ENCOURAGE EYEWITNESSES TO RECORD INSTEAD OF ACT BUT THE LAW ALLOWS AND ENCOURAGES GOOD SAMARTIANS TO TAKE ACTION WHEN ACTION IS NEEDED.

WHAT LINKS THE SUPREME COURT’S CLARENCE THOMAS, REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE MEGA-DONOR HARLAN CROW, DONALD TRUMP, MARIYLN MONROE, JOE DIMAGGIO, THE FOUNDER OF CEREAL, A SOCIALITE RACEHORSE BREEDER AND A HOTDOG KINGPIN FROM NEW JERSEY NAMED ROGER JAKUBOWSKI?

LOCAL RESIDENTS CONTRADICT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS AN RV-LOVING EVERYMAN AND OFFER A WINDOW INTO A CENTURY-OLD, LITTLE KNOWN HIDEAWAY OF THE SUPER-WEALTHY.

THROWBACK TO MY FIRST BIG EXCLUSIVE FOR THE NEW YORK POST IN 2007, WHEN I CHASED A PAIR OF ALLEGED COP KILLERS TO THE POCONOS AND CAUGHT COPS CATCHING ONE OF THEM.

CHIEFS LET COURTROOM DOOR CLOSE IN THE FACE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING HIS ARRAIGNMENT ON 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING RECORDS

-ADVOCATES BLAME US PRES. JOE BIDEN, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU

-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY CROSSING NORTHERN US BORDER

-2 YEAR-OLD & INFANT AMONG DEAD KILLED CROSSING FREEZING ST. LAWRENCE RIVER

-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY ENTERING THE US FROM CANADA

-WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S PERP-WALK WILL LOOK LIKE

-MEET THE JOURNALISTS COVERING THE ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT

-BITTER NEWSPAPER FEUD THAT COULD EFFECT WHETHER THE PUBLIC SEES A PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMP IN HANDCUFFS

-PICTURE HISTORY OF PERP WALKS IN NEW YORK CITY

-JOURNALISTS’ GUIDE TO COVERING PERP WALKS

DONALD TRUMP IS FACING INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS OBSSESSING OVER HIS ‘PERP WALK.” I PHOTOGRAPHED A LOT OF PERP WALKS AS A PHOTOJOURNALIST. HERE’S SOME OF THE BEST.

MY 2019 REPORT ON WHAT WAS THEN AN ALL-BUT-SECRET PAROLE COURT ON RIKERS ISLAND THAT SPARKED LEGISLATION REFORMING PAROLE.

2.3 million New Yorkers completed their criminal sentences but remain shackled to permanent, digitized criminal records that condemn them to a life of sporadic or marginal employment and poverty. Clean Slate legal reform could change that, but New York's Clean Slate bill remains stuck.