The Pullman Police Advisory Committee brainstormed ideas for a community survey to collect input about known areas of success and improvement for the Pullman Police Department.
David Makin, committee member and WSU associate professor of criminal justice and criminology, said the survey could focus on the public’s view of policing or it could take a narrower approach on specific police interactions.
The committee agreed the survey should collect data from Pullman residents who have had direct contact with police officers.
Direct contact could include being pulled over, being a victim of a crime or dialing 911, Makin said. The survey would have a section to submit the badge number of the officer.
An investigation determined Wolf was likely killed overnight and she had been beaten and stabbed.
At the time, The Dispatch reported that there were no signs of forced entry to Wolf s apartment. A video camera and stereo system were reported stolen but there were no other signs of a robbery.
Wolf s car, a maroon Pontiac Grand Am, was also stolen. The car was found about 250 yards away at a neighboring apartment complex.
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On it was written “122” the shelter’s occupancy on a recent weekday, as well as the first names of 10 more people expected to arrive that day.
Capacity is 120.
Just down the hall, behind closed doors, a family was sleeping on couches in what normally is a lounge area. It’s one way shelter officials handle the chronic overflow they experience.
And this day is typical.
In a surge officials attribute partly to the COVID-19 pandemic, calls to the shelter hotline have increased from an average of 11 a day, pre-COVID, to nearly 14 a day in recent months.
Despite CHOICES increasing its space from 52 beds to 120 when it moved into the new shelter in January 2019, demand has already outstripped supply.
Sims described what viewers and Hicks endured as “traumatic and humiliating.
“It’s very difficult to watch bodycam footage like that, especially as we are all reliving the murder of George Floyd,” said Kody Cross, co-founder of the Akron Minority Council. “It’s a traumatic experience even for the viewers in the general.”
“From my perspective, there was an overly excessive use of force, an abuse of power, even some cruelty, in throwing the snow in Mr. Hicks’ face,” Cross added.
In a statement issued on Facebook, Ward 8 Councilman Malik Shammas, who, along with Ward 5 Councilwoman Tara Samples and Ward 1 Councilman Rich Swirsky, had urged the police department to release the body-worn camera footage ahead of Thursday’s news conference, described his concerns.
Elianna Kruskal, Megan Fieleke and Connie Shui-Yi Chow
After eight months of work, Newton’s mayor-appointed Police Reform Task Force has released a set of recommendations that are deeply flawed. The report begins by acknowledging the historic and ongoing harm policing causes to Black, Indigenous and other people of color, then inexplicably concludes that we need to invest even more money and effort into the Newton Police Department.
The Newton Police Reform Task Force seems driven by an erroneous belief that police can be fundamentally transformed into something other than police. They call for a mindshift from a “warrior mentality” to a “guardian mentality” through a consultant-led culture change initiative, substantial new and expensive training, and hiring more officers in order to achieve racial diversity. They propose these solutions despite widespread evidence showing that reforms that seek to fix police don’t result in more equity.