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News Articles: Police Reform

Police are "responding to nonviolent, noncriminal calls for service for people whose needs are largely social, behavioral or mental. And that's just not right," says San Francisco Fire Capt. Simon Pang, who's helping to spearhead efforts to create new mobile crisis teams for the city.

Removing Cops From Behavioral Crisis Calls: 'We Need To Change The Model'

San Francisco will soon launch the nation's largest experiment that diverts most nonviolent mental health and behavioral crisis calls away from police and to specially trained mobile units.

October 19, 2020
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  • Eric Westervelt
Breonna Taylor protest in Atlanta

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Police Trainers Tell Ga. Senate Panel It Might Be More Money, Not New Laws Needed To Rein In Abuse

The head of the agency that certifies Georgia’s law enforcement officers told state lawmakers examining police reforms Thursday that new money for training is a better solution than new laws.

September 25, 2020
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Lovely Warren, seen at a Sept. 3 news conference, announced a series of personnel actions and reforms on Monday following a preliminary review of the city's handling of the events following the March arrest and death of Daniel Prude.

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Daniel Prude Death: Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Fires Police Chief, Seeks Federal Inquiries

Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief, suspended two city officials and called for federal investigations into the city's handling of Daniel Prude's arrest in March and the events that followed.

September 15, 2020
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  • Rachel Treisman
From left to right: Roy Minter, Savannah's chief of police since 2018; Terence Lester, founder and executive director of Love Beyond Walls; Jerald Nuness, case manager at a personal injury law firm; & Dr. Andre Brock, associate professor at Georgia Tech.

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'The Talk' Is A Rite Of Passage In Black Families. Even When The Parent Is A Police Officer.

For generations, “The Talk” has been a mainstay in African American families. At some point, Black children all get warnings from elders about how to...

June 26, 2020
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  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Protestors march in New York on June 6, 2020. Since George Floyd's killing, police departments have banned chokeholds, Confederate monuments have fallen and officers have been arrested and charged following a nationwide outcry against violence by police.+

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Reform, Defund, Abolish: Understanding Calls To Re-Imagine The Police

In the weeks since protests against police brutality began in Minneapolis, calls to reform, defund or abolish the police have been escalating. Demands...

June 12, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • and 2 more

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OST Full Show: Law Enforcement Reform, Governor Kemp On Rural Georgia, 'Speakeasy with Denene'

The list of officer-involved deaths is long, and have revived questions about law enforcement reform. On Second Thought spoke with Civil Rights Attorney...

October 23, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
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