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/PRNewswire/ -- The Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN) is pleased to announce the election of Delores Johnson Davis, Gregory Frey, Catherine Hunter, Kim...

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Everything was going to be great the reality belies that. every single day. and yet now we have this and they are trying to memorial hold this mass casualty terrorist attack effectively as an accident and a crash. what is going on? this is something we should make sure americans know what happened. >> we should always try to remember when anything like this happens the lives of the people that were lost, the 6 people who have died, knowing their names and understanding what they have gone throug...

The smaller crimes because it stops people from committing bigger crimes. here you have it in bail reform where 55% of the people out on bail of those released before trial were accused of a new crime while free. can you correction go too far? >> well, there is no question any policy can go too far. we got to be open to following the data and evidence. weve got to learn from mistakes that we make and i believe we made a lot of mistakes including broken window theory. that didnt work. the evidenc...

Black and brown communities starved us of resources we need to invest in things like health care, public housing, education, job training, mental health, services, drug treatments, things that actually build safe and vie bbrant communities. were committed to following data and evidence and intervening in ways that target root causes of crime. thats why were expanding mental health care. thats why were expanding diversion programs and thats why when police bring us cases involving felony conduct,...

Federal Government To protect homeowners and renters still affected by COVID-19, ABA and White House team up on new initiative   Image from Shutterstock. The ABA is working with the White House on a new initiative to protect renters and homeowners who remain affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic instability. On Wednesday, the White House Summit on Eviction Prevention will bring together local government, judicial, legal and community leaders from 50 cities to develop strategie...

Month. >> john: aoc says she has the solution. >> if we want to reduce violent crimes and the number of people in our jails the answer is to stop building more of them. the answer is to build more hospitals. we pay organizers. we get people mental healthcare, over all healthcare, employment, etcetera, its to support communities and not throw them away. >> john: lets break in ari. ari mental health and can tphoplics play into a certain amount of crime there. is plenty of other crime with nothing ...

Those who sell, those are use, and those who use crime drive the market. and they buy this stuff, creating the traffickers. so when they are buying it, guess how they are getting the money to buy it? they are stealing your stuff. so, the at the end of the day, this is not good policy. and he should know that. but, who is he playing to, anyway? i think people across the united states and iowa are smarter than to believe not holding people accountable for possessing cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetami...

Whats going on there? >> actually the states have been leading the way on this issue for quite some time. for many states, states that people typically dont think of as involved in prison reform -- texas, my home state of north carolina, and others -- have looked at this issue for years and have looked at it primarily from an economic point of view. they focus on the human cost and the moral issues. but states quickly realize that the cost of prison, which has risen over 600% since 1980, was som...

Level? we talked about louisiana earlier. whats going on there? >> the states have been leading the way on this issue for quite some time. for many state, states that people dont think of as involved in prison reform, texas, my home state of north carolina, and others have looked at this issue for years and looked at a primarily from an economic point of view. they focus on the human cost and moral issues, but states quickly realize the cost of prison, which has risen 600% was something they cou...