White Affinity Group: Racial bias and divisive blame strategies harm community safety

Written by on July 20, 2022

This commentary is from the White Affinity Group of the Vermont Legislature’s Social Equity Caucus. Group members are listed at the end of the commentary.

In an NBC5 story in May, Burlington’s Acting Police Chief Jon Murad said that Burlington was seeing an uptick in crime and “disorder” caused by members of “affinity groups” who knew each other but weren’t gang members. NBC then added footage . . .



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