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On the heels of a state-mandated police reform plan, elected officials and local activists introduced a new police oversight effort on the steps of Albany City Hall Wednesday.
Albany Common Council President Corey Ellis and Center for Law and Justice Executive Director Alice Green are looking to move police reform forward via creation of a Public Safety Commission.
They say it augment the work of the Albany Policing Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, whose final report was due to the state April 1st. Ellis, a Democrat, says the commission will be staffed by community members selected by the Common Council.
“That commission would be charged to oversee the collaborative recommendations and implement some of those recommendations. And to do this, we at the time, council members felt, that the collaborative was just the beginning. So this is the next step. And the reform that we re that we re looking at as a city council. This will require a law to be passed for this to hap
Editorial: It s a start, at least
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Albany police clashed with anti-brutality protesters Thursday as officers cleared them from an encampment of tents built next to the department s South Station. Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less
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Albany police physically removed demonstrators from a camp they set up in front of South Station Thursday, April 22, 2021.Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less
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Black arrest rate in Capital Region remains high; progress sought, no easy solution seen | The Daily Gazette
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CAPITAL REGION Any sense of progress in increasing racial equity in the criminal justice system is tempered by the fact that there’s a very long way to go to reach this goal.
Across New York state as a whole and in the Capital Region, Black people are arrested at a far greater rate than white people relative to their percentage of the population, Hispanic people at a somewhat greater rate and Asians at a much lower rate.
Black adults are arrested in New York significantly more often than white adults (136,219 vs. 118,952 times in 2019), despite white New Yorkers outnumbering black New Yorkers by nearly 4 to 1.
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