Sarah Ryley is an American journalist working as an investigative and data reporter at the Boston Globe.
The Daily News and ProPublica were joint recipients of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Ryley's extensive reporting on the New York Police Department's "widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.
"[3] While at the Daily News, Ryley also reported extensively on the NYPD's "Broken Windows" policing tactics, which resulted in sweeping reforms.
[4][5][6] Ryley was born in Toledo, Ohio, and studied journalism at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Her work exposing racial disparities in the New York Police Department's practice of issuing summonses for low-level offenses resulted in the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.