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Effective Crisis Management Without Police

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2020 by Jayson Hawkins published in Criminal Legal News January, 2021, page 47
Filed under: Alternative Sentencing, Mental Health. Location: United States of America.

by Jayson Hawkins

One of the many new elements in the recently energized movements for social justice and criminal justice reform is the call to “defund police.” Often misconstrued as a desire to do away with law enforcement altogether, defund advocates are actually focused on changing the way local governments ...

 

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