Spitzer Brakes on License Plan "Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy." New York Times. NYPD Fires Back at Misconduct Allegations Sketchy details surround the shooting of a mentally ill 18 year old shot with 20 bullets by five NYPD officers, but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly believes, "officers fired at someone they reasonably believed to be about to use deadly force against them," with a hairbrush. New York Times. CA Summit: Academic Achievement Gap is Racial A summit held by the California state Board of Education concludes that those scoring lowest on achievement tests are Black and Latino students irregardless of socioeconomic status. San Francisco Chronicle.