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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