police reform
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Police Seek Answers for Handling Mentally Ill
Increasingly, police are finding a large part of their job is dealing with the mentally ill, something for which they…
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Justice Department to Halt Police Reform
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of previous police reform agreements to ensure they align with the…
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Will Anything Really Change After the Deaths of Sterling, Gerald and Long?
By Candace J. Semien (The Drum, NNPA Member) Leaving the city of Baker, Louisiana, I turned left onto the interstate…
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Justice Dept. Disburses $23 Million for Police Cameras
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper White House efforts to foster improved policing and better ties between communities…
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The Sandra Bland Investigation Is In Trouble
WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS (The Huffington Post) – On July 13, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was found dead in…
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Ferguson Panel Recommends Merging Police, Other Changes
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The co-chairman of a reform panel formed after…
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Police Body Cameras Show More Than Just the Facts
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Seattle man was arrested in January during a demonstration to protest police…
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Maryland Implements Racial Profiling Guidelines
by William J. Ford Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Vanessa Fleeton recalled when a Black police officer…
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Illinois Governor Signs Police Guidelines for Body Cameras
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has become one of the first states nationwide to establish wide-ranging law…
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Gov. Brown Signs Law Barring Grand Juries in Police Deadly Force Cases
(Los Angeles Times) – Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh…
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