By Sarah Holder
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One of several reforms aimed at reducing fatal interactions between police and those with behavioral emergencies, D.C.’s pilot aims to route more 911 calls to social workers.
Category: 2021
By KJ Shepard
Read the full article from Protean Magazine, here.
The actual extent of homelessness in the U.S., writes KJ Shepherd, is drastically underestimated—a result of flawed counting metrics, enabled by a broader refusal by power to admit its true, staggering scale.
By Michelle S. Phelps
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Michelle Phelps at the University of Minnesota leads a project looking at attitudes toward policing in the city. The Conversation asked her to explain what happened in the Nov. 2, 2021, vote and where it leaves both Minneapolis’ beleaguered police department and police reform movements nationwide.
By Alexandra Lange
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Planners and designers are linking labor, social services and maintenance to building projects by prioritizing the concept of “care.”
By Devyn Springer
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By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Read the full article from The New Yorker here.
“Our current criminal-justice system is rooted in the assumption that millions of people require policing, surveillance, containment, prison. It is a dark view of humanity. By contrast, Kaba and others in this emergent movement fervently believe in the capacity of people to change in changed conditions. That is the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project.”
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