The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/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.
“I would have liked to have been more involved with the recommendations that went forward,” Police Chief Dennis Nayor said.
Preliminary data reveals that black and brown communities may be disproportionately affected by the New York City Police Department’s social distancing enforcement.
Prof. Jelani Cobb, journalism, Columbia University, criticized police violence and dissected the different relationships between people of color and law enforcement officials in the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture on Thursday.