Local prosecutors shouldn’t trust the reports of officers with prior misconduct. Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public — especially Black communities...
The barriers to reform police unions erected over the years will pose an enormous obstacle to establishing a new, more accountable kind of policing in the United States.
Guardian analysis shows how organizations and officers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago work against reform.
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
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Getting police departments to stop acting like an occupying army will require many fundamental changes, including much closer screening of job applicants who are veterans and ending their preferential hiring treatment.
The state became the first to make major changes in police practices in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, which has spurred nationwide protests.
And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J.
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