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Community members hold a press conference addressing an upcoming Seattle City Council vote on an agreement between the Seattle Police Officers Guild and the city of Seattle at City Hall, Nov. 13, 2018. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
As anti-racism protesters filled city streets this past summer with calls for a radical rethinking of public safety, a majority of Seattle City Council members responded by committing to cut the city s police budget by 50%. But making good on that promise has been difficult.
In this, the final episode of This Changes Everything’s focus on efforts to defund the police, host Sara Bernard and reporter David Kroman discuss the political pain and potential ramifications that have come since the council members committed to those cuts.
Albany police reform picture begins to appear
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ALBANY – The first signs of how the city plans to re-imagine its police department were released Friday.
The city posted the draft report from the Community Safety and Restorative Justice group, one of the five working groups that make up the Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative on Friday afternoon. The remaining four reports were posted Friday evening.
Brenda Robinson, the working group’s chair, said its members worked hard to familiarize themselves with piles of documents, different issues in the criminal justice system and to absorb the community’s input. The challenge was putting it all together in a short-time frame in a way that served the community, she added.
Jeffrey Trafton, Waldo County Sheriff Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:45pm
As your Sheriff here in Waldo County, I want to share with everyone that we are committed to developing committee partnerships and programming for the betterment of our community.
Over the past few years, the Sheriff’s Office has worked with our community partners to begin several new programs including our new Community Liaison program as well as the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program. Both of these programs are designed to direct the appropriate services to individuals in need in the community while lessening our dependance on incarceration.
We applied for and were approved for a grant to create aCommunity Liaison Program. The program began on April 1, 2020. Between April and August, the Community Liaison answeredmore than 70 calls for service.
Fatal overdoses more than doubled in Annapolis and increased by almost 20% in Anne Arundel County in 2020, a sobering sign of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on substance use prevention efforts across the county.