How a new kind of policing saved America's most dangerous city [cnn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/15/204:00 AM

By Anne Milgram, CNN Opinion, June 13, 2020

In the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd, the City Council in Minneapolis announced that it will disband its police department. The decision aims to reverse the unacceptable status quo, and face the reality of decades of failed attempts to advance police reform.

And so, to eradicate the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of our criminal justice system, the City of Minneapolis is pursuing a new model of policing.

This is a bold and risky decision. But in some ways, they have no other choice: the system we have today is broken, puts lives at risk and must be fixed. More modest efforts to reform the police department have fallen woefully short.

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