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The Worcester City Council on Tuesday delayed a discussion on new police and racism reforms. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
WORCESTER, MA Worcester City Council action on a new package of police and racism policy changes will wait until March.
The package of reforms, which City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. released on Friday, was presented to the Council at Tuesday s meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Joseph Petty punted the item until the March 2 meeting.
Still, dozens of residents spoke at the meeting about the proposals. Among many items, Augustus proposal would remove school resource officers (SROs), ban facial recognition technology and create a cabinet-level Division of Investigations to handle complaints from residents.
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About a century ago, the city of Worcester published annual guide books detailing information about the community.
Flipping through one of the books recently, it reminded City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. of Worcester’s inflated population nearly 100 years ago.
“It had a chart of the population,” Augustus said. “I was looking at the early part of the 20th century, we had a number of years where the city’s population was 196,000, it was higher then. We were over 200,000 in different periods.”