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LAPD Used 'Shadow Teams', Issued Conflicting Orders During George Floyd Protests: Report On 3/11/21 at 6:52 PM EST During the 2020 racial justice protests following George Floyd's killing, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) issued conflicting orders to its officers, used plainclothes "shadow teams" to monitor protesters and injured hundreds of demonstrators due to poor training, a 101-page report commissioned by the L.A. City Council found. The report, released Thursday and conducted by a panel of former LAPD commanders, said that the LAPD suffered from a "chaos of command" during the s...

Wadsam Afghanistan’s exports dropped from USD 1 billion in Fiscal Year 1398 to USD 776 million in Fiscal Year 1399, according to figures from the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI). The figures indicate an over 21% drop caused by Pakistan has allowed import of cotton from Afghanistan through Torkham border as the country is facing a lower domestic cotton production. According to sources from Pakistani, the country’s cotton harvest has declined considerably as farmers are switching over to other China’s plans to expand and modernize its transport network will make glob...

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) launched a new working research paper: “Drugs and Development in Afghanistan, National Policy and Actor Analysis” at a virtual event today. The paper, co-authored by Dr Adam Pain, Mr Kaweh Kerami and Dr Orzala Nemat, gives an overview and background understanding of the counter-narcotics laws, policies and programmes that have underpinned counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan since 2001. The paper argues that Afghanistan’s opium poppy economy presents a complex policy problem. It lies at an intersection between various seemingly ...

The mass movement for police reform that exploded in the wake of the killing of George Floyd also led to a renewed push to re-think our reliance on law enforcement to handle thousands of mental health crisis calls every year. The numbers make the case: People with untreated serious mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with the cops than other civilians, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. And 25% of people shot at by the LAPD from 2015-19 were perceived to have a mental illness. Since last summer, we've seen a flurry of initiatives in the city and...

Source: Auckland Council A report evaluating a governance pilot running on Waiheke over the last three years has been released this week by Auckland Council’s Research and Evaluation Unit (RIMU). The pilot was set up in late 2017 after Auckland Council’s 2016 Governance Framework Review revealed that local boards did not feel sufficiently empowered to fulfil their role. Its purpose was to trial the impact of giving greater decision-making authority to Waiheke Local Board and to provide further support to the board. The report looks at the results of the pilot using interviews with Waiheke...