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21 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Chokeholds have been against New York Police Department rules since 1993, and the practice has been scrutinized especially closely since the 2014 death of Eric Garner. But despite hundreds of complaints alleging choke...
17 January 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Over 3000 Words
In response to the 2020 policing protests, Albuquerque was among the first cities to embrace a major change in handling mental-health-crisis calls to 911. But its new Community Safety Department has foundered in its f...
10 January 2021
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
In 2020, six years after the Justice Department imposed a series of reforms on the Newark Police Department, Newark police officers have reduced their use of force so much that they didn't fire their guns at all in 20...
3 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
For 50 hours over five days, police and community members collaborated on the Brownsville Safety Alliance pilot project, which kept police officers away from a longtime crime hotspot so that community members could pr...
29 December 2020
East Haven, Connecticut, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After East Haven, Connecticut, police officers were caught harassing residents based on race, the Obama Justice Department took the police department to court and won a consent decree requiring a long list of reforms,...
28 December 2020
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Over 3000 Words
A street-level view of White Bird Clinic's CAHOOTS program in Eugene explains its appeal as a cost-saving, humane alternative to sending the police to 911 calls concerning mostly minor problems involving homelessness,...
27 December 2020
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
Albuquerque police make house calls to deliver a carrot-and-stick message to people at high risk of getting shot or shooting others. The Violence Intervention Program's "custom notifications" target people based on th...
14 December 2020
Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Police often use dogs as a form of "pain compliance," non-lethal tactics that get a criminal suspect under control without having to resort to potentially lethal means. But this use of dogs can inflict pain and injury...
9 December 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Behind the nightly protests against racism and police brutality on Portland's streets for more than five months stands a network of street medics and mutual aid groups dedicated to equipping and protecting protesters,...
5 December 2020
Chula Vista, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The first Drone as First Responder program in the U.S. expands the use of drone aircraft by the police, sending the aircraft on emergency calls without direct oversight by a human pilot. Using technology similar to se...
1 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the 1990s and again in 2014, when Baltimore used a strategy called focused deterrence to reduce street violence, it showed initial promise but then failed. Those failures can be tied to how the program was managed,...
1 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Over 3000 Words
When Baltimore police shifted tactics starting in 2007, away from aggressive street stops aimed at arresting gun carriers toward regulating the supply of street guns at their sources, the city's murder rate plunged. B...
26 November 2020
Tyler, Texas, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Crisis-intervention and de-escalation trainings for police were meant to reform the criminal justice system's handling of people suffering from mental illness. But a lack of rigorous standards in the training and use ...
19 November 2020
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
Missouri requires police to record the race of drivers from every traffic stop, a response meant to expose and ultimately reduce racial profiling in law enforcement. But, 20 years after that law took effect, Black dri...
15 November 2020
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
New York City established its Civilian Complaint Review board in 1993 to strengthen its police-discipline system, a response to complaints that police officers rarely were punished for harassment and brutality, especi...
13 November 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
By creating a centralized team of detectives to focus on non-fatal shootings, Denver police improved their rate of solving such crimes from 39% in 2019 to 65% in the program's first seven months. The team of six detec...
11 November 2020
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Crisis intervention training for Kansas City police officers does not reach the majority of the department and can fail to address a critical reason that police might use excessive force on people with disabilities. A...
9 November 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Even while Los Angeles police criminalize homelessness with "sweeps" to clear encampments from public property, state and local programs have helped thousands of people find housing and receive services like counselin...
9 November 2020
New York, New York, United States
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Under 800 Words
Two Muslim women arrested on minor charges and forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots sued the New York Police Department and won a settlement that changes the department's policy. The women said they were humilia...
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4 November 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
By framing their police-reform proposal as an investment in community services rather than a bid to take money away from policing, the Re-Imagine L.A. County coalition of racial and criminal justice advocacy groups wo...
29 October 2020
Lagos, Nigeria
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1500-3000 Words
Modeled in part on America's Black Lives Matter protest movement, Nigerian protests against brutality and extortion committed by the police have in a brief time attracted uncommon levels of support across ethnic and r...
29 October 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Since early 2019, a mental-health crisis response center, the West Philadelphia Consortium, has worked to get the police to call in the consortium's mobile crisis team to de-escalate crises and get people into treatme...
29 October 2020
United States
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Over 3000 Words
The Violence Against Women Act was billed as a way to make a patriarchal society, and policing profession in particular, take domestic violence more seriously. It encouraged policies making arrest of alleged abusers m...
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...
25 October 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Temporary housing providing drug treatment and other services to people experiencing homelessness appears to cut the chances that people arrested in Portland on minor charges will cycle repeatedly through the criminal...
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