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 problemat
RALEIGH â A wide-ranging report on how to address racial inequalities in North Carolina s criminal justice system â written with buy-in from police, Black Lives Matter activists and many others in-between â will be delivered to Gov. Roy Cooper this week.
But even though that report took months to prepare, the work is really only now just beginning, Cooper told the group last week as they finalized their work.
Turning the recommendations into reality will require cooperation from all levels of government, he said. And it will have to be bipartisan: Democrats control most of the state s biggest cities and counties. Republicans control the state legislature. And the courts are separate from either.
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