North Carolina Criminal Justice Reform Task Force Presents 125 Recommendations to Eliminate Racial Disparities
A North Carolina task force on Monday unveiled a slate of reforms aimed at eliminating racial disparities in the state’s criminal justice system.
The policy and legislative proposals are recommendations designed to decrease systemic practices in law enforcement and the courts that harm Black people at higher rates.
The recommendations were released in a 166-page report that was delivered to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday.
Among the proposed measures included in the report are a statewide ban on neck holds, policies requiring police to intervene and report when they witness other officers using excessive force, raising from 6 to 12 the age when students can be thrown into the juvenile justice system to “reduce school to prison pipeline,” and creating a statewide database to track complaints and avoid a “wandering officer” with a history of problematic behavior.