Sentences with phrase «debated police reform»

NYC Council members vowed to force a vote on hotly debated police reform bills if Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito refuses to allow a vote this year.

Since February this year MPs have been debating the police reform and social responsibility bill, which proposes to abolish regional police authorities, replacing them with directly elected «police and crime commissioners».

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Bob Gangi, a police reform activist who is also running in the Democratic primary, praised the mayor's willingness to debate.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

I followed those debates closely as the police reform and social responsibility bill made its way through parliament in the months following the general election.

A video of South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager fatally shooting Walter Scott as he ran away appears to have relit the debate over criminal justice reform in New York.

The case sparked local and national debates over policing and criminal justice reform.

Also running are former city council member Sal Albanese — who just qualified to appear in CFB - mandated debates with de Blasio — and Robert Gangi, a police - reform activist.

De Blasio spent nearly the entire debate touting his record, including universal pre-kindergarten, the creation of affordable housing, reduction in crime, reforms to policing, improvements in educational achievement, and a stronger economy.