APD faces a credibility crisis. The recent string of officer-involved shootings and deaths have caused many in our community to ask: When will this end?
By Felix Rivera, Daniel Volland and Meg ZaletelAnchorage Police Department headquarters building in downtown on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
That’s why we are pushing the Municipality to – finally – keep the promises made in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and in 2021, when the Assembly began exploring a Crisis Now approach to emergency response. While we appreciate the commitments made by the LaFrance administration and Police Chief Sean Case, that means pushing for even more action so we can turn a page as a community and heal from the hurt caused over the last several months. Here is what we propose.
Although the funding is there, and we know the approach works, there aren’t enough staff to make 24/7 implementation a reality and instead, our reality is tragedy. In the recent spate of officer-involved shootings, many of the incoming calls were about someone in distress. In none of the instances was the MCT or MIT deployed, either on their own or in conjunction with police response. That needs to change.
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