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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...
30 December 2020
Unity, Maine, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Across the U.S. many colleges and universities adapted their courses and curriculum to meet Covid safety guidelines, but many are seeing the pandemic as a catalyst for the necessary innovation, acceleration, and chang...
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...
27 October 2020
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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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...
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...
BBC
Daniel Gordon
6 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, where several officers failed to prevent one officer's actions, New Orleans police have been besieged by requests from police nationwide to export their ...
5 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
By training police officers to intervene when fellow officers engage in brutality or other misconduct, the New Orleans police department has reduced officers' use of force and increased public trust. After the killing...
NYC Reopens
Eli Rallo
25 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
In New York, restaurateurs who have struggled to stay open amid the coronavirus pandemic are partnering with drag performers who have lost work due to the pandemic to offer patrons a new dining experience while also t...
18 September 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Daniel Prude's death in police custody illustrates a common flaw in how police respond to mental health crises, but reform advocates disagree on whether to improve police training or bypass police almost entirely. Men...
18 September 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
More than 2,700 police departments in the U.S. have crisis intervention teams aimed at responding to mental health crises with fewer arrests and less violence, but the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody...
10 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
After all 36,000 New York Police Department officers took required training in recognizing implicit racial bias, more officers understood how racism may increase officers' aggressiveness but there was no evidence that...
25 August 2020
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
A nonprofit consulting firm, Prosecutor Impact, advances the cause of reducing incarceration and related reforms by helping reform-minded elected district attorneys confront one of the greatest obstacles to change: th...
12 August 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When "junk science" forms the basis of the training curricula used by for-profit companies in the business of teaching police interrogation techniques, it can produce mistakes leading to false confessions and wrongful...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
10 August 2020
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Tuscon police use a combination of training and expanded resources to resolve mental health crises by putting people in the hands of mental health professionals, an approach that in 2019 diverted nearly 4,400 cases aw...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
15 July 2020
Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since he took over the Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff's Office in 2016, Philadelphia police veteran Mike Chitwood changed many of his department's personnel and put the entire 1,000-employee department through de-es...
2 July 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Teaching police de-escalation tactics to avoid the use of force in a crisis is a popular suggestion in the police-reform debate, but a number of structural deficits make success a great unknown. Before police departme...
25 June 2020
United States
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
Police training often is the suggested fix after controversial incidents of alleged brutality, but training is only one piece of a much larger set of cultural, racial, and social issues. Reforming training in de-escal...
23 June 2020
Bonner, Montana, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
In Montana, a handful of manufacturers have adapted their facilities to make products and materials that help healthcare workers safely work on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. From face shields to liquid tran...
17 June 2020
Bangor, Maine, United States
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800-1500 Words
A tension fabric structures manufacturing company in Maine has repurposed their facility and transformed their local workforce to create grade-one medical masks for the local hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bec...
6 June 2020
Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Community Health Representative Program has been helping connect the Navajo Nation with health-care resources for decades, but when the Covid-19 pandemic began to impact community members, the role of the represen...
5 May 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
California state government is pivoting to a tactic that will allow for state employees to be reassigned and retrained to help efforts towards implementing contact tracing. Only one-third of the state's local health d...
12 April 2020
Cortez, Colorado, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Businesses in the Four Corners region of the United States have shifted their production from outdoor equipment to medical equipment and have successfully solicited people from the community to help. Although the busi...
10 April 2020
Tasmania, Australia
Text
Under 800 Words
To replace lost business and keep their employees on staff, Tasmanian businesses quickly diversified into new product lines to meet COVID-19-related demand. A camera accessories firm that saw nearly all of its sales t...
6 April 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In Los Angeles, fashion industry professionals are working together to create hospital gowns from donated materials for use in hospitals. The project is also helping to employ those who have been laid off from their r...
3 April 2020
Salem, New Hampshire, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
To avoid laying off employees during the coronavirus pandemic, a New Hampshire small business that manufactured hard lemonade and liquors turned their operation into producing hand sanitizer for first responders. Alth...
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