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Tom Uhlman / AP The civil unrest in 2001 sparked by the deaths of Black men at the hands of Cincinnati police did more than grab international attention. It also accelerated advocates' efforts for systemic reforms to the city's police department. Those reforms, mandated by federal courts after the unrest, became known as the Collaborative Agreement. Cincinnati has received national praise for the agreement, but its component parts are sometimes not well understood. And a 2017 effort to update the Collaborative Agreement has left questions about whether it is being administered as intende...

What reforms should take place amid corruption Development deals and involvement Addressing the affordable housing charter In the coming days, Cincinnati voters will start casting their ballots for the person they believe is best fit to lead the Queen City over the next four years and out of a pandemic that has hobbled the local economy and killed more than 300 residents. Six people are running for mayor of Cincinnati in the May 4 primary, after which the field narrows to the top two vote-getters for the general election. Early voting begin Tuesday when city residents can being choosing from ...

Local 12 WKRC Since the 2001 civil unrest, changes to policing in Cincinnati have served as a national model. In 2002, the city of Cincinnati signed the Collaborative Agreement and declared community problem-oriented policing would be the strategy for police services in the city. The strategy shifted the focus to prevention. Cincinnati has seen a dramatic reduction in use of force and arrests over the past 20 years, which mirrors a national trend. Joining Cincinnati Edition to discuss police reforms since 2001 are Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac; and with the Sentinel Police Associatio...

Tom Uhlman / AP Some people think the tensions between Cincinnati's Black community and the city's police force began on a night in April 2001, when a white police officer chased a 19-year-old Black man into a dark Over-the-Rhine alleyway and killed him with a single shot to the heart. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is the shooting of Timothy Thomas by then-officer Stephen Roach was the lighted match thrown into a highly combustible cauldron of distrust and anger that had been stewing for years and led to six days and nights of civil unrest that gripped the city in fea...

WHO and IDIA join forces to support the scaling of health innovations The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) today signed a strategic Collaborative Agreement to support the scaling of health innovations. The collaboration will see the two entities work together in support of a shared agenda to promote and facilitate the demand, supply, assessment, and scale-up of health innovation for the benefit of low- and middle-income countries. This collaboration is another great example of how agencies are coming together in different ways to con...