Dearborn police are arresting Black suspects and issuing citations to them at significantly higher rates compared with white suspects, prompting protests from a group of activists who are calling upon Dearborn to reduce spending on police and crack down on what they see as racist targeting.
The city of 94,000 that s the headquarters of Ford Motor Co. has seen an intense debate in recent months as members of a new group called Accountability for Dearborn, formed last year after George Floyd s death, have increasingly spoken out at Dearborn City Council meetings. Floyd died on May 25 in Minneapolis in an incident with a police officer, prompting widespread protests and calls for reform of police across the U.S., including in metro Detroit.
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Jockeying for the seat began after President Joe Biden nominated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on December 6. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to hold Becerra’s confirmation hearing in the coming weeks, though a date has not yet been set. He is expected to be confirmed, after which Newsom will announce his pick for attorney general.
The letter focuses on Schiff, whose record trends toward being more tough on crime than most of the other top contenders, but the signatories ask that readers “do not take this as an acceptance of all other potential appointees” and ask Newsom to appoint “someone who has an understanding of the impact of policing and incarceration on people’s lives and on our communities.” Schiff’s office and campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
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Understanding the Policing of Black, Disabled Bodies
February 10, 2021, 10:27 am
Freddie Gray, Laquan MacDonald, Kevin Matthews, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Charleena Lyles, Sandra Bland, Quintonio LeGrier, Stephon Watts, Korryn Gaines, Natasha McKenna, Eric Smith, and Daniel Prude are all Black, disabled victims of state violence. In the United States, 50 percent of people killed by law enforcement are disabled, and more than half of disabled African Americans have been arrested by the time they turn 28 double the risk in comparison to their white disabled counterparts. While these statistics provide basic insight into how law enforcement engage with parts of the disability community, much remains unknown. Specifically, the United States must improve the mechanisms used for data collection on police encounters to provide an accurate, complete picture of these long-standing dynamics and misuse of force. In the ongoing efforts and discussion surrounding police reform and the need for s