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Community leaders are calling for action a day after St. Louis police say a group of people fired stolen guns into the air in front of a home.

It’s a different approach to fighting crime that puts the power into the hands of the community. The program is taking off in Dallas, Newark, and now St. Louis.

The report brought together various departments of Philadelphia's government, all trying to get a bead on the problem.

  Share Source: LightFieldStudios/iStock/Getty Images Plus If there is one place a convicted cop killer should not be, it’s on a police reform advisory panel. And yet, that’s exactly where we find Richard Rivera, the man who fatally shot NYPD police officer Robert Walsh execution style in 1981. Rivera is currently serving on an advisory group panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County, the “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative,” which was formed after Gov. Andrew Cuomo tasked municipalities with turning in police reform plans by April 1, a move that came in the wake of George Floyd’s...

Context After his prison release in July 2019, Rivera started working for nonprofits that aim to eliminate economic and racial disparities in Tompkins County's criminal justice system and volunteered to help homeless residents stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. To brainstorm ideas to reform local policing in 2021, local officials picked roughly 40 people — including Rivera — to help them gather information from historically marginalized groups. Origin On March 29, 2021, The New York Post published an article that claimed local officials in upstate New York were attempting to...