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Reimagining Public Safety Plan Presented at Ithaca Town Hall
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In a town hall event, Ithaca community members gathered to discuss the Reimagining Public Safety Working Group’s report and creation of a new public safety agency.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/police-reform/)
In a town hall event, Ithaca community members gathered to discuss the Reimagining Public Safety Working Group’s report and creation of a new public safety agency.
The Reimagining Public Safety Working group, an organization involved in the restructuring of the Ithaca Police Department, spoke about their efforts to improve policing equity in a March 9 panel.
Rep. Jim Clyburn joined Daniel James’ II ’22 on the Black Voices on the Hill Podcast for a conversation on race, voting rights, and the future of America.
After the historic trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Cornell faculty reflect on the verdict in a virtual roundtable, discussing police reform in Ithaca and across the nation.
The Reimagining Public Safety proposal, which has passed both the Ithaca Common Council and Tompkins County Legislature, may fully restructure Ithaca area policing.
The Tompkins County Legislature voted Tuesday to pass the Reimagining Public Safety Plan, with the county committing to the 17 police reforms that intend to rebuild trust between law enforcement and residents.
Students discussed police abolition through a queer framework at an event hosted by Haven, Cornell’s LGBT student union, in collaboration with CARS and the Ithaca Pantheras.
On Sunday, pro-police Back the Blue protestors and police abolitionist counterprotesters clashed during a protest condemning Mayor Myrick’s ’09 police reform plan.
As you may know, Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick ’09 recently released a plan to replace the Ithaca Police Department with a new “Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety.” The department would be divided between armed “public safety officers” and unarmed “community solution workers.”
The plan has received fulsome praise and withering criticism. It deserves neither. I was part of the process that led to this document. Though the mayor badly botched the rollout, the vision behind the plan is exactly right. If we separate process from substance, we can still achieve meaningful change.
Student Assembly members kicked off their latest meeting with calls for the University to disarm the Cornell University Police Department — the assembly’s latest move in a semesters-long push for police reform.