Berkeley to consider sweeping police reforms 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.
Oakland plan to replace police with mental health workers in disarray
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Richard (left) and Zenobia Breaux listen as Oakland City Council Member Loren Taylor visits with members of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force in Oakland in October.Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Jamie Almanza is executive director of Bay Area Community Services, which has pulled out of competition for an Oakland contract to replace police officers with mental health workers.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Oakland police Officers Bryant Ocampo and Daniel Cornejo-Valdivia patrol downtown in December.Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
City Leadership and Local Transformation: Reimagining Public Safety nlc.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nlc.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NLC Assembles Task Force of Local Leaders to Reimagine Public Safety in Communities Across the U.S.
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WASHINGTON – The National League of Cities (NLC), the nation’s oldest and largest organization devoted to helping local leaders build better communities, has convened a task force of mayors and councilmembers from across the country to reimagine how they ensure public safety in their communities.
Amid the multitude of challenges that cities, towns and villages faced in 2020 were calls to rethink and re-envision public safety in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of local law enforcement.
“Government can always improve the services it provides, and that includes public safety,” said
In Maryland s largest suburb, an ambitious police overhaul faces roadblocks
Rebecca Tan and Dan Morse, The Washington Post
Feb. 6, 2021
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1of3Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Marcus Jones, left, with interim Prince George s County, Md., police chief Hector Velez during a news conference after a Montgomery County police detective was shot in November.Washington Post photo by Toni L. Sandys.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Protesters in Clarksburg, Md., after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody last year.Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson.Show MoreShow Less
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After the killing of George Floyd last year, residents of Maryland s Montgomery County held more than 120 protests against police violence, joining communities across the country in a wave of civil unrest not seen since the 1960s.