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Buffalo updates police reform plan
Organizers with Free the People Western New York laid out several recommendations they believe would create change in the BPD.
This commission’s agenda is inadequate, and frankly it is a disappointment, we can, and we should do better by the people of Buffalo.
Mayor Byron W. Brown’s draft recommendations for police reform in Buffalo released earlier this week fail to take adequate steps toward change and ignored community input, a group of activists and community groups said Friday.
Buffalonians are speaking out against what they’re calling a flawed police reform process.
Generations of Black and brown people have experienced police violence in their communities, but the death of George Floyd ignited the powder keg of America’s racial reckoning.
The Buffalo Common Council may approve as early as next month a Right to Know Law to enhance police transparency and accountability.
NYS Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announces a vote tomorrow on the #HALTsolitary Confinement Act.
“If signed into law, the Fair & Timely Parole Act would ensure that parole release decisions are based on who incarcerated people are today. It would also mean that people like my father, who will one day go before New York’s Parole Board, will actually receive a fair chance at release.” Read TeAna’s full statement here.
