How US cities’ police reform attempts led to pay bumps for officers Roshan Abraham © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP
In response to a wave of protests against police killings of Black people in 2014, the newly elected New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced an array of policing reforms focused on increasing community trust.
He reorganized the NYPD around “neighborhood policing”, assigning officers a neighborhood-level beat, increasing the number of police community meetings and appointing some cops as community liaisons. The mayor and city council also added 1,300 new officers. In 2017, the NYPD also rolled out a pilot of its body-camera program, one of the first department-wide programs in the country.
How US cities police reform attempts led to pay bumps for officers
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Factions on the left and right are standing down for now Shawn Zeller © Provided by Roll Call Disagreements between Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and Joe Manchin III, second from left, and between Republicans like Liz Cheney and Josh Hawley haven’t yet affected the workings of Congress, Zeller writes.
ANALYSIS Factionalism is the bane of leaders and the latest CQ Roll Call Capitol Insiders Survey, a poll of congressional staffers, finds aides of both parties worry internal divisions could blow up in 2021.
As yet, that hasn’t happened, even considering West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III’s protest on Friday.
Philip estimates that he injected $1 million into each of his scar-tracked arms during the 18 years he lost to heroin.
He watched his Fall River home with its granite countertops, his job as a truck driver, his marriage, and his relationship with his two young children evaporate as quickly as the money he used to keep the sickness of withdrawal at bay.
“It’s a chase every day, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed,” Philip said.
“I lost everything, just for a drug.”
Philip arrived late to heroin, first snorting it at a friend’s urging at age 27 after becoming hooked on the Percocet that had been prescribed for a back injury. Within a week, his days and nights were ruled by the quest to get more heroin by any means. He’d inject some $450 worth a day. He’d buy it in Providence and sell it in Fall River at a $150 profit to fuel his habit.