Sentences with phrase «series of police reform»

For their part, Council members have threatened to advance a series of police reform bills that are opposed by the mayor and the police commissioner.

City Council members have decided to table a series of police reforms.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

He characterized his administration's efforts as a «series of reforms that all work together that synergize to change the dynamic between police and community.»

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.

Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.