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The FBI is supposed to track how police use force – years later, it's falling well short

Aaron Miguel Cantú

May 17, 2021 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States

Five years after the FBI started tracking how often police use force, the majority of police departments still fail to comply and the FBI refuses to release publicly what information it has collected. The policy was enacted in response to the realization that no one had definitive data on how often the police kill people, use teargas, or other incidents of force. What little data exists showed racial disparities in whom police use force against. But compliance was made voluntary and the FBI made public release of the data contingent on 80% of police departments complying, a goal it's nowhere near.

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L'organisme qui intervient sans policiers lors de crises de santé mentale

Camille Gris Roy

May 17, 2021 |

Radio Canada |

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Response Location: Canada, Toronto

A Toronto, le centre Gerstein déploie depuis plus de 30 ans ses propres équipes mobiles communautaires sur le terrain pour répondre aux crises de santé mentale ou de dépendance. Un numéro permet d'appeler et, si besoin, des travailleurs spécialisés en situation de crise sont envoyés en visite sans escorte policière. Après l'appel, le centre peut aussi orienter vers des conseillers, psychiatres, proposer un séjour au centre, de rejoindre des groupes de soutien ou se faire référer à d’autres organismes. Un modèle dont veut désormais s'inspirer la ville de Toronto.

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How to Start (and Run) a Bank That Puts People and Planet Over Profits

Oscar Perry Abello

May 17, 2021 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

San Francisco-based New Resource Bank was launched with environmental sustainability lending as its niche. But it pursued easier profits for a time, risking its survival and mission until a new CEO turned its fortunes around with a laser focus on the original mission, bolstered by learning its borrowers' businesses intimately. The bank doubled in size and merged with a larger bank, making itself a model for mission-driven lending in such businesses as solar, wind energy, and organic foods – and by attracting institutional depositors and investors as interested in social change as they are in profits.

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An Initiative to Improve Street Safety through Public Art

Kate Elizabeth Queram

May 17, 2021 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

Street murals and innovative safety features have transformed a dangerous intersection. The Kansas City project not only improved the aesthetic, it also decreased noise pollution, pedestrian crossing distances, and vehicle speeds by 45 percent.

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A Classroom Clinic: Bringing Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment to Schools in Malawi

Rabson Kondowe

May 17, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Malawi

The Learner Treatment Kits Initiative trained primary school teachers in 58 schools to use rapid diagnostic tests to identify and treat children with uncomplicated malaria infections. In addition to the tests, the kits have antimalarial medicines and medications to treat minor medical issues like headaches or small cuts. When a child tests positive for malaria they are given antimalaria medicine for three days. Caregivers are advised to take children with more severe cases to district health facilities. From 2019-2020 teachers administered 7,900 tests, with 6,101 cases being positive.

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Santa Barbara County Looks to Yolo County for Criminal Justice Reform

Katherine Swartz

May 16, 2021 |

Santa Barbara Independent |

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Response Location: United States, Woodland, California

By turning over its criminal justice data to Measures for Justice, a nonprofit developer that turns raw data into publicly available reports, the Yolo County district attorney has a much better grasp on the work that it has been doing. Better data mean better-informed decisions about criminal justice reforms. The investment in the new system is prompting policy changes because of racial disparities showing up in the numbers. And that is prompting many other DAs to clamor for the same kind of system.

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Cuando el Oro es Verde

Mayela López

May 16, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Costa Rica, Puntarenas

Emprendedores de turismo rural en la Península de Osa, Costa Rica, se unen para crear rutas de turismo que les permita llegar a más clientes y además ofrecer productos más completos, mejorando su economía, la de la zona y aportando a la experiencia de los visitantes.

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Learning Syilx teachings through EPIC program at Southern Okanagan Secondary School

Athena Bonneau

May 16, 2021 |

IndigiNews |

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Response Location: Canada, Oliver, British Columbia

The Experiential, Project-based, Indigenous and Community (EPIC) program was designed to strengthen connections with Indigenous students and boost attendance at a high school in Oliver, B.C. The new program is offered to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Syilx/Okanagan territory. Through different activities students are encouraged to connect to Syilx culture and traditions.

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To Curb Domestic Violence, City Enlists ‘Sisters of the Well'

Myagmarsuren Battur

May 15, 2021 |

Global Press Journal |

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Response Location: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

In Mongolia's capital city, more than 600 people who staff the kiosks where most residents get their drinking water have been trained to spot signs of domestic abuse. The Smart Triangle program aims to overcome low rates of reporting such crimes to the police in this patriarchal society by shifting the reporting burden to people well situated to observe a neighborhood's daily life. Other sorts of responses show stronger effects than bystander interventions like this. But the short training curriculum is not costly to produce and has helped some women.

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Possibilities of Progress: Integrating Crisis Care Infrastructure into the Philadelphia Police Force and the United States

Nana AmaAddo

May 15, 2021 |

FunTimes Magazine |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

To increase the safety of people in mental health crisis, Philadelphia police train most officers in crisis intervention tactics and try to build better-informed responses into 911 operations. But problems persist. In the U.K., similar challenges – also disproportionately affecting Black people – have been addressed with a nationwide Crisis Team UK program. Calls for help can be answered by teams integrating multiple talents, from psychiatry to social work. Though progress has not been uniform nationwide, satisfaction and safety have improved, according to activists and a small survey.

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