And now, groups such as Vera are targeting suburban communities to push through policing changes without new laws.
“There was a desire to do more in this moment, to address the system that continues to allow this to happen. So we started asking if there is something more we can do with this unique moment to reimagine what a just system looks like,” said Jamila Hodge, the former director of the Reshaping Prosecution Program with Vera.In Gonzalez’s district, for example, about 22% of the district’s overall population is Black. Of the more than 6,800 people charged during 2019 and 2020, the majority were Black.
In Washtenaw County, Michigan, home to Ann Arbor and just west of Detroit, prosecutor Eli Savit is working with a group called My Brothers Keeper to divert young people of color accused of nonviolent crimes into an intensive mentoring program. Savit, who took office in January, said he wants to focus on interventions that happen with kids who are acting out or committing minor crimes.
The office, in partnership with Savannah Feed the Hungry, developed a program called Show Us Your Guns that focuses on people between age 16 and 25 who are found to be in possession of a gun during an interaction with police. As long as those young men didn’t use those weapons in commission of a crime, they are eligible for the program instead of arrest or jail. It requires they turn in the gun in exchange for participation.
“Too often prosecution is case based, but we want this to be cause based— looking at the underlying causes,” Edwards said.
Something didn’t feel right about this. Black ppl arrested 10x more than white so let’s pay prosecutors to find the root cause? Then I got to the “parents where addicted to crack cocaine” part and give arrestees a chance to turn in their guns? The racist system is the problem.
Basically bribing prosecutors not to charge blacks with crimes!
One thing I like to do, when my kids are misbehaving, is raise their allowance.
AP makes it sound like private groups or individuals paying prosecutors to advance their causes is somehow a good thing. Prosecutors should be barred from accepting anything from non-government sources. Influencing prosecutors with outside money is about as crooked as it gets.
Now this is good news 😏
Racism is alive and cooking.
Didn't third parties giving money to prosecutors to influence the outcomes of trials used to be illegal? Interesting, the mafia will be happy with this development.
All based on: the other 3 cops treating George Floyd impeccably. Not a scratch on him until Chauvin arrived.
Lol. Defund the police was such a horrible idea. Y’all deserve the crime you get.
HDP, Hukuk karşısında meşru ama kamu vicdanı karşısında meşru değildir. Terörün TBMM ndeki uzantısıdır..ABD dayatması ile anayasa mahkemesi kararları uygulanmayarak hdpk kurdurtuldu ve legal gösterilmek istenmektedir. meşrulaştırmak isteyenler haindir.TBMMresmi
What Good News 📰👏🏽
Trump led a racially motivated 'revenge' Coup on the USA government because: 1) he didn't want to hear COMPLAINTS OF UNFAIR policing, AND 2) he wanted everyone to hear his COMPLAINTS OF UNFAIR election counts. Racism doesn't work.
Do you think a one game suspension is enough for this 10 year old.
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