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Right-Sizing Policing and Increasing Accountability To reduce the scale of police contact and the negative consequences that disproportionately ensue for people of color, several jurisdictions have worked to limit police intervention for nonviolent offenses on the roads, streets, and in schools, as well as to develop policies that increase police accountability. This has been accomplished […]

‘Systemic racism’ against black people found in US policing: UN report  TRT World Source link

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Days after the fatal police shooting of Amir Locke last February, community activists gathered at the Minneapolis City Hall in protest. “We’re here for Amir Locke. The question that I have is: How many more?” said Rod Adams, a community organizer who spoke at the event. “Seven years from Jamar Clark, we’re 18 months from […]

[1/4] American Mountaineer Garrett Madison who climbed Everest for the 13th time, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kathmandu, Nepal May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar KATHMANDU, May 30 (Reuters) – A renowned U.S. mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, […]

The mayor and police chief of Antioch, the California city facing an FBI investigation and a lawsuit over alleged civil rights violations by its police officers, agree on one thing – the police department has an issue with culture. “Good people can exist in bad cultures,” Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe told ABC News. “We say, […]

Collette Flanagan, Founder, Mothers Against Police Brutality Kerry McLean, United Nations Anti-Racism Coalition In May 2020, a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for nine and a half minutes, ending his life. Nearly three years later, starting this week, United Nations experts on racial justice will embark on a first-of-its-kind visit […]

In May 2020, a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for nine and a half minutes, ending his life. Nearly three years later, starting this week, United Nations experts on racial justice will embark on a first-of-its-kind visit to the United States to examine what has — and hasn’t — changed […]

In another sign of the deep rift in Mississippi between white state lawmakers and Black residents of its capital, Jackson, the N.A.A.C.P. is suing state leaders over two new laws that it says create a “separate and unequal” structure involving the police and courts in the city. The laws, passed by the overwhelmingly white and […]

Mississippi’s Republican governor signed a bill on Friday to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, and the new law is expected to face a court challenge from the NAACP. The legislation was passed by a majority-white and Republican-controlled state House and Senate. Jackson is governed by […]


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