The City of Poughkeepsie’s second police reform public Meeting was hosted by Mayor Rob Rolison, Director of Community Engagement John Penney (bottom, left to right), Captain Richard Wilson, Police Chief Tom Pape and Common Council member Yvonne Flowers (top, left to right). Tiana Headley/The Miscellany News.
City of Poughkeepsie residents offered both minor tweaks and major criticisms of the city’s draft response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order 203 at a Wednesday public forum. The order mandates policing modernization plans from police agencies state-wide.
Many commended the work of the city and the police department, but most participants cautioned that the draft is far from a perfect response to the governor’s historic mandate to address institutional racism and modernize policing practices.