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Following a little more than eight months of committee meetings, Fort Wayne’s Commission on Police Reform and Racial Justice submitted its recommendations to Mayor Tom Henry Tuesday morning.
Henry formed the committee in the month following racial justice demonstrations in downtown Fort Wayne last May, which took place after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and led to violent clashes between residents and city police. The goal of the committee is largely in its name: how to reform local policing while achieving racial justice.
The committee has outlined three areas of importance going forward: race relations, communication, and departmental transparency, with the end goal of “how to strengthen the community’s trust in Fort Wayne’s Police Department.”
More than 300 police body cameras are on their way, thanks to a unanimous Fort Wayne City Council vote Tuesday.
Council members approved the purchase .