It s Been More Than A Year Since Austin Started Training New Police It Could Restart This Summer kut.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kut.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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On Friday, February 12th, 2021, Oakland’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force issued their first round of draft recommendations that will forge a new path toward holistic and community driven public safety practices and policies in Oakland. Within 48 hours, APTP along with the Defund Police Coalition hustled to put together the first version of a report with our full analysis of the draft recommendations.
Following a discussion and revision process, the Task Force’s Advisory Boards released their second and final round of recommendations on March 1, 2021.
We just updated our report, which includes NEW data on calls to the Oakland Police Department in 2019.
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The upcoming May 1 special election provides Austinites with an opportunity to fundamentally change the structure of city government. To some, these changes are revolutionary advances toward a more robust local democracy; to others, they threaten to cause a catastrophic collapse of Austin s current progressive consensus. Either way, a very big deal.
Five of the eight city propositions on the May 1 ballot – Propositions D through H – are charter amendments that began life last July in the mind of Andrew Allison, a local entrepreneur with previous lives as an attorney and political speechwriter. That was at the peak of public outcry against Austin police Chief Brian Manley for (among a slew of other missteps) the Austin Police Department s gross mishandling of the May 31 Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, sparked by the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and, a month earlier, Mike Ramos here in Austin.
Oakland plan to replace police with mental health workers moves forward sfchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.