How These Cities Are Breaking Up the Work of Police Departments As the country reassesses its relationship with law enforcement, Ithaca, New York; Berkeley and Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas, are defunding, replacing, or reducing the scope of their police departments. Eoin Higgins
Brooklyn Center Mayor Unveils Plan To Decrease Police Traffic Enforcement Powers The proposal by Mike Elliott, if passed by City Council, would also create a department of unarmed professionals trained to respond to mental health needs. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Report Sheds Light On The Pattern Of Over-Policing That Led Cops To Pull Over Daunte Wright The criminal legal system “relies heavily on collecting money from the very people targeted by the system,” in the process incentivizing police to punish as many people as possible, the authors of the ACLU report write. Samantha Schuyler
