Sentences with phrase «address police and community»

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If you can objectively read what happened to him, and then say that what Kaepernick, Malcolm Jenkins and others are saying about the need to address policing issues in minority communities is a joke, then our country is truly fucked.

The center, formerly known as Parents for Megan's Law, had a $ 2.5 million contract with the Suffolk Police Department for the past three years to verify sex offenders» addresses as well as monitor social media and conduct education programs under Suffolk's Community Protection Act.

Along the way, the East Harlem Council Member has shared her progressive vision for moving our community forward, and addressed vital issues for Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, including affordable housing, education, and reforming stop and risk policing policy.

«When they feel let down, which I believe many people have begun to feel, we must address it by doing something more than maintain the status quo and reconnect the police with the people in their communities,» she argued.

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

Phil Ramos called Sunday for Nassau and Suffolk counties to each create a «criminal justice task force» to address tensions between police and communities of color.

«He showed me the extent of his analysis and why he saw an opportunity to address crime at the neighborhood level in a different way and also in the process resolve some of the tensions that have existed between police and community in some neighborhoods,» de Blasio said.

This coming Mon., Apr. 13th, community activists and leaders will embark on a 250 - mile walk through five states to deliver to Congress what they call «Justice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community investment.

The commissioner, who will receive 1,300 new police officers under the city's budget deal, said the community policing model that will be enacted as a result «will change many aspects of how cops and community interact — and thereby address many of the concerns that underlie the bills we're considering today.»

Mayor Joe Hogsett says he takes full responsibility and promised to create more police beats and make more money available for community groups to address the problem.

«We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people — mostly low - income black and Latino males — are locked up at Rikers,» said Mark - Viverito.

The speech comes after some criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for not talking about police and community relations, a hot issue during his first year as mayor, during his recent State of the City address.

In that capacity, she assisted multi-racial grassroots community organizations, lawyers, and public officials throughout the country with addressing policing, education, voting rights, and affordable housing issues.

The Educational Service Center coordinated these activities with officials from local police and fire departments that served the participating school districts; the Lucas County Sheriff; the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency; the Lucas County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board; the Toledo - Lucas County Health Health Department; and the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities to ensure that crises — whether school or community - originated — could be addressed quickly and effectively through an integrated approach.

Fatal Love responded to the times, as post 9/11 there were major shifts in the perception and policing of our community; artworks specifically addressed these issues.

The Ottawa Chief of Police said that they will be following the report's recommendation to consult the community in the creation of a multi-year plan to address the anomalies and other recommendations.

Many of the reports advance recommendations to address this problem: more funding for community based Indigenous groups treating survivors and victims of violence and their families, more training for police engaging with Indigenous women and communities, more data collection and sharing, more public education and better coordination of services and programs.

In our efforts to address and prevent racial profiling and other prohibited forms of discrimination, we have also since taken on other human rights organizational change project partnerships with the Windsor Police Service and Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The Act, whose stated «purpose... is to provide safer communities by creating administrative and court processes that can be used to address and prevent cyberbullying,» (s. 2) makes it possible for persons who consider that they are being the victims of cyber-bullying (or for their parents and police officers, if they are minors) to apply for an order that can include prohibitions against its target communicating with or about the applicant, or using specified electronic services or devices.

The operation of the hostel is overseen by an Advisory Group comprising of representatives from Department of Correctional Services, Aboriginal Hostels Limited, Centrelink, police, community agencies and Aboriginal Housing, which meets monthly to discuss and address matters arising.

Strategies: Involvement in the Indigenous Community Police Consultative Group to address community policing issues; establishment of a prison Aid program providing support for inmates in the Rockhampton and Maryborough CorrectionalCommunity Police Consultative Group to address community policing issues; establishment of a prison Aid program providing support for inmates in the Rockhampton and Maryborough Correctionalcommunity policing issues; establishment of a prison Aid program providing support for inmates in the Rockhampton and Maryborough Correctional Centres;

I also welcome initiatives such as the recently announced National Emotional and Social Well Being Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and some of the new Shared Responsibility Agreements that seek to encourage communities to address family and community safety — through for example, establishing night patrols in communities where there is little if any police presence, through empowering and strengthening women, or through encouraging the community's men to work closely with family violence prevention services.