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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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Virginia State Police pulled over Derrick Thompson in 2019 outside Washington for an expired inspection tag.
Trooper Charles Hewitt ordered Thompson out of the car after Hewitt smelled pot, according to police, and realized Thompson was driving on a suspended license.
Thompson refused to get out, video recording of the traffic stop showed.
âYouâre gonna get your ass whooped in front of f -ing lord and all creation,â Hewitt is heard saying. âWatch the show folks!â
The camera does not capture what happens next.
Her team, along with local legal partners, held an expungement clinic Saturday at Gerard Place in Buffalo to help people with prior low-level marijuana convictions.
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JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Board of Supervisors recently authorized Sheriff Richard Giardino to commence the process for state accreditation of his department’s Road Patrol Division.
The sheriff’s office division would be accredited through the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Giardino has requested to commence the application for accreditation, which stems from the newly-adopted Fulton County Police Reform and Reinvention Plan. The plan enumerated five sheriff’s “goals and objectives for the future,” including DCJS accreditation.
The plan was the product of the Fulton County Police Reform Advisory Committee, which was formed after Gov. Andrew Cuomo last June 12 issued an executive order requiring local governments to adopt a police reform plan.
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