Sentences with phrase «other police reform»

The group hosted a town hall in Sunset Park on Friday night in which activists and residents grilled Public Advocate Letitia James and acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on their positions on broken windows, affordable housing, public housing and other police reform - oriented issues.

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Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitpolice force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian ConstitPolice (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

«These candidates have a history of standing up for working people, immigrant rights, good public education, affordable housing, criminal justice, police reform and other issues that are important to our members and their families.

With other forces following his lead it is possible that police commissioners hold the key to real cannabis reform.

Also at 11 a.m., the Legal Aid Society, Coalition For The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

While his campaign is motivated by the issue of policing and criminal justice reform, on which he calls de Blasio a moderate, he has expanded to address other issues, like affordable housing and transportation equity.

But unlike his police counterpart, Patrick Lynch, Mr. Seabrook has managed to keep a friendly relationship with the mayor — while still offering up vociferous opposition to changes to solitary confinement at Rikers Island and other attempts at reforming the violent, scandal - prone jails.

In lower Manhattan, those in the crowd carried signs saying, «Lift all boats, not just yachts,» and also referenced other issues, like immigration reform and police shootings.

At 9 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, members of the Central Park 5 and other advocates rally to call on the New York state Legislature to pass a bill that would require police to implement eyewitness identification reform and to record the entirety of suspect interrogations, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

It will be recalled that the Federal Government, had alleged that the former Governor and two others for diverted the sum of N9.79 bn, part of which was meant for police reform programme and Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.

While police reform advocates were cautiously optimistic about the change, others worried how the new policy would effect crime and law enforcement in the city.

Although Nixon's recent comments mark her most direct criticism of the mayor on police reform issues to date, she has spoken out against the mayor on other issues.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Rep. Luis Gutierrez and 10 other people demonstrating for immigration reform were arrested Tuesday outside the White House, the U.S. Park Police and a spokesman for the congressman said.

Williams also chimed in when one of the other panelists took Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to task for a deal she made with former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to quash a package of police reform bills known as the Right to KnoPolice Commissioner Bill Bratton to quash a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Knopolice reform bills known as the Right to Know Act.

Councilman Ritchie Torres — who has openly critiqued the mayor on police reform, school desegregation and other issues — and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, a close de Blasio ally, joined the mayor at New Tabernacle Baptist Church to announce they and five colleagues wanted to see de Blasio serve four more years.

The mayor also said Bratton «just deserves all of our thanks,» crediting him with doing more than any other individual to make the city safer and doing more to «reform police practices and create an opportunity for police and community to come together.»

«That just speaks to the fact that this is truly criminal justice reform and not police reform,» Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso said, noting that one changes how the legal system processes people after cops have stopped and charged them with misdeeds, and the other regulates that initial encounter with law enforcement.

While they disagree with M4BL's education views, they agree with them on other issues such as policing and criminal justice reform.

Another commonality between policing and teaching is that both are unionized «labor» forces, but unlike other types of factory and industry labor, they primarily require discretion, patience, and experience — none of which can be easily assessed with data or video clips, says Norm Fruchter of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

Her position with the IIP involves representing individuals who were wrongfully convicted, leading the policy reform initiative to reduce wrongful convictions, training police cadets on the causes of wrongful convictions at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute, and working with UIS undergraduate and graduate students and law school students externs from other Illinois universities participating with the Prpolice cadets on the causes of wrongful convictions at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute, and working with UIS undergraduate and graduate students and law school students externs from other Illinois universities participating with the PrPolice Training Institute, and working with UIS undergraduate and graduate students and law school students externs from other Illinois universities participating with the Project.

The most current guide to protest law available covers this list of legislation, case law and more: • Austin v UK, ECtHR Grand Chamber, Judgment 15th March 2012 • Police Reform and Social Responsibilities Act 2011, ss141 - 149 • Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008 • R v Jones and others (2007) 1 AC 136 • R (LaPorte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (2007) 2 AC 105 • Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004 • Police Reform Act 2002 • Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 • Public Order Act 1986 • Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 • European Convention on Human Rights

Cuomo's office pointed to other criminal justice reforms he's enacted, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and naming the attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related deaths, arguing he's long cared about the issue.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.