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27 October 2020
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A de-escalation training program from the Police Executive Research Forum, used by 85 police agencies already, was shown in Louisville to reduce police officers' use of force by 28%. The training resulted in 26% fewer...
21 October 2020
Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since Washington made voting by mail mandatory in 2011, nonpartisan election officials have refined ballot-security procedures to achieve a smoothly run system in which suspected cheating or interference represents a ...
16 October 2020
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
More than 1,930 Maryland poll workers were trained to protect ballot integrity from security threats based on research about where those threats may come from. The program, one of the few in the country focused on ele...
15 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Early in the pandemic, APIENC, a community organization led by trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco, started a phone tree to offer help to people: getting groceries or meals, provi...
Vox
Julia Belluz
14 October 2020
Germany
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1500-3000 Words
A combination of luck, learning, local responses, and listening has kept Germany's coronavirus cases manageable, even as the pandemic continues to impact much of the world. In particular, the ability to enact decentra...
8 October 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Chicago's CRED program (Create Real Economic Destiny) blends effective violence-intervention strategies with economic empowerment, life coaching, therapy, and education to provide the kind of opportunity so often lack...
7 October 2020
Fond du Lac Reservation, Minnesota, United States
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Leaders of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Minnesota acted early and aggressively when the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping the nation, and so far, it has appeared to have helped the region to kee...
7 October 2020
Minnesota, United States
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The Rural Mental Health Outreach program in Minnesota is helping farmers in the region to tackle mental health challenges that are related to the stresses involved in their profession. Other states have taken notice o...
5 October 2020
Canada
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The First Nation–Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative is a nationwide initiative to foster positive relationships, empowering First Nation and municipal leaders to talk as equals. There have been hundre...
1 October 2020
Colorado, United States
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Colorado's mandatory, all-mail balloting system encounters very few cases of fraud or mistake while making voting easier and more accessible to all voters. Everyone who applies for a driver's license or Medicaid gets ...
29 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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As Chicago touts the latest in a series of anti-violence police units, a look back at the Violence Reduction Initiative launched in 2012 teaches lessons about how a program that claims credit for falling violence stil...
29 September 2020
United States
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One of the most powerful tools used to reform policing practices, widely credited with restoring public faith in such troubled departments as the Los Angeles Police Department, is called a consent decree. The U.S. Jus...
28 September 2020
Wausau, Wisconsin, United States
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In Wisconsin, plain-clothes law enforcement officers are teaming up with mental health experts to handle calls related to crisis intervention. The goal of the Marathon County Crisis Assessment Response Team is to redu...
24 September 2020
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Multi-Media
Over 15 Minutes
A group of health professionals known as Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, or LATIN-19, is helping to bring coronavirus-specific health care access to North Carolina's Latino community. Be...
24 September 2020
British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Finding common ground between environmentalists, logging companies, and indigenous communities to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada took years of discussion and even a dance at an Elton John concert. But the...
18 September 2020
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Over 3000 Words
CAHOOTS fields teams of mental-health first responders as a cost-effective and more humane alternative to sending the police to 911 calls for crises and even mundane problems concerning mental health, drugs and alcoho...
16 September 2020
Germany
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Germany has weathered the pandemic with lower illness rates than its neighbors and a relatively strong economy thanks to leadership and responses that have evolved and helped the country thrive in the three decades si...
15 September 2020
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
Revisiting Newark police reform six years after an earlier documentary, and after federal intervention, signs of progress provide hope in a year of unrest over police misconduct nationwide. Policies and training were ...
14 September 2020
London, United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
At St George the Martyr church in London, an initiative to offer food to people that would otherwise have been wasted is taking on new meaning due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The “community fridge” starte...
11 September 2020
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Health officials in North Carolina have shown that contact tracing can successfully identify those who have been exposed to COVID-19. The efforts of the contact tracers in one county resulted in 35 people being quaran...
8 September 2020
Boise, Idaho, United States
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800-1500 Words
An emergency shelter, a housing nonprofit, the City of Boise, and the Boise Police Department came together to coordinate efforts and give assistance to the growing number of residents experiencing homelessness and li...
4 September 2020
United States
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Student-run news media, seeking to support their Black staff members and audience, responded to 2020's racial-justice protests by challenging the journalism profession's faith in objectivity. Based on the view that tr...
2 September 2020
Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
To extend aid to the Minnesotans most vulnerable to the coronavirus, state and local health departments, backed by $4 million in state funding and by community groups' on-the-ground help, conducted an extensive campai...
1 September 2020
Ireland
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1500-3000 Words
A political experiment to increase trust and build relationships effectively brought together 66 diverse citizens, 33 politicians, and one expert to discuss proposed constitutional amendments and make recommendations ...
1 September 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
During a year of racial-justice protests nationwide, journalists whose job is to hold institutions to account for racist outcomes have turned their gazes inward, to their own newsrooms, and won some progress in divers...
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