Yasmeen Khan is a reporter covering crime and policing.
Yasmeen Khan is an award-winning reporter in the WNYC newsroom focused on crime and policing. For years she covered youth and the New York City school system, producing in-depth stories on a college-bound student with autism; a transgender elementary school student; and a teenage girl determined to join the Boy Scouts. She closely covered the expansion of citywide pre-kindergarten programs, along with controversial school rezonings that illuminated the city’s segregated school system. She dove into municipal archives to tell the stories of a 1964 school boycott protesting segregation and of a 1960s attempt to desegregate a handful of city schools. One of her favorite reporting projects was a multi-platform series from Brownsville, Brooklyn, which included highlighting a group of Brownsville youth who painstakingly recreated their neighborhood in a virtual reality game.
Yasmeen has also held jobs as a bartender, toll collector and dishwasher. She moved to New York City in 2010, but remains deeply devoted to Carolina basketball.
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Yasmeen Khan appears in the following:
The NYPD Could Have Two Federal Monitors
Friday, January 15, 2021
Attorney General Tish James is seeking a court-appointed monitor to oversee changes to how the NYPD handles protests.
Riot at the Capitol Shows Double Standard In Policing, Including In New York
Friday, January 08, 2021
Former NYPD Detective and New York Law School Professor Kirk Burkhalter discusses how the NYPD approaches protests, and what it means when cops take political stances themselves.
Future of Policing: President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Offers Her Vision
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
After a summer of protests against police brutality, police leaders, activists and others met to discuss public safety. Here's what the head of John Jay took away.
The NYPD Substantiated Its First Complaint Of Biased Policing — But Not Against An Actual Officer
Thursday, December 10, 2020
The NYPD has been working with the federal monitor to improve its investigations.
Study Finds NYPD Body-Cameras Lead to More Reporting of Stops, But Not More Lawful Ones
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
The study was led by the federal monitor overseeing the NYPD’s court-appointed stop and frisk reforms.
Family of Antonio Williams, Killed By Police, Files Wrongful Death Claim
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
In an incident in the Bronx last year, police officers fired 15 rounds killing both Williams and a fellow officer, Brian Mulkeen.
NYC Will End Practice Of Drug Testing Pregnant Patients Without Written Consent
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The policy change comes as the city investigates three private hospitals to determine if there is evidence of racial bias in who is tested and reported to child welfare authorities.
City's Public Hospital System Revises Policy for Testing Pregnant Women for Substances
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The new policy comes in response to reports of racial bias in who gets tested and who gets reported to child welfare authorities.
NYPD Settles Lawsuit Over Discrimination Of Transgender Woman
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
As part of the settlement, the police department will redistribute guidance to all officers and retrain officers in the 44th precinct, where the alleged discrimination took place.
A Grieving Uncle Is 'Mad As Hell' About The City's Failure to Protect Black Youth From Gun Violence
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
NeQuan McLean, a father and education advocate in Bedford-Stuyvesant, had already lost two family members to gun violence before his nephew was shot and killed in October.
Too Many Special Education Students Not Getting Mandated Services, Advocates Say
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
When New York City schools closed in March, the problem only grew worse for many students with disabilities.
Federal Prosecutors Say They’ll Investigate NYC Shootings with More Aggressive Approach
Thursday, October 15, 2020
They are teaming up with the NYPD and other law enforcement entities to do it.
City Memo: Protests Are Subject to Same Rules As Other Non-Essential Gatherings
Friday, October 09, 2020
A memo issued to police officers aims to clarify enforcement of public health restrictions at religious gatherings and protests in areas with high infection rates.
City Beefs Up Capacity to Enforce New COVID-19 Restrictions In Targeted Neighborhoods
Thursday, October 08, 2020
The city must enforce the state's new rules, which apply to areas with surging infection rates. But what if communities resist?
It's Not Just Boys Who Are Eagle Scouts Anymore
Thursday, October 01, 2020
Sydney Ireland is in the first cohort of girls to achieve the Eagle rank with the Boy Scouts of America.
Teachers Say They Need A Reopening Plan Specific To Special Education
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
"We want just simple acknowledgment that we exist and that we have needs that are very unique here within the Department of Ed," one special education teacher said.
City Teachers Return To Work, With Apprehensions And Uncertainty
Monday, September 07, 2020
New York City public school teachers report to work on Tuesday to prepare for the start of classes later this month.
How to Prevent Gun Violence As a Civilian: Be Available, Be Compassionate, Deescalate
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Shneaqua Purvis, who goes by Coco, works for Man Up! in Brooklyn. She explains how she'll make her rounds this weekend to prevent shootings.
Bronx DA Will Not Charge Officers For Killing Kawaski Trawick In His Apartment
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark has announced that she will not bring criminal charges against two police officers after a year-long investigation.
Brownsville, Brooklyn Has A New Police Commander. Can He Change How the NYPD Does Business?
Sunday, August 09, 2020
Terrell Anderson is originally from the neighborhood and has pledged "he’s not going to arrest his way to safety."
