By Spectrum News Staff Erie County PUBLISHED 11:08 AM ET May. 25, 2021 PUBLISHED May 25, 2021 @11:08 AM
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Police reform is a hot topic, and the race for Erie County Sheriff is just getting started. Three of the six candidates got together Monday night to discuss a range of issues.
Democratic candidates Myles Carter, Kimberly Beaty and Brian Gould took the stage in Buffalo to discuss consolidating prisons, safety practices and officer accountability.
All three candidates say they re against the practice of solitary confinement and they want more resources for those with mental health and substance abuse issues.
The overall message was one of reform and rehabilitation.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â Later this year, voters will elect a new sheriff for the first time in over a decade. Three candidates up for the Democratic nomination made their pitches at a forum hosted by VOICE-Buffalo on Monday evening.
Candidates Kimberly Beaty, Myles Carter, and Brian Gould participated. VOICE-Buffalo said it invited and did not receive a response from Karen Healy-Case, Ted DiNoto, and Steve Felano. They said John Garcia declined. 7 Eyewitness News has also reached out to those candidates, but has not heard back.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â For eight years starting in the early 2000s, Patrick Mann was Kimberly Beatyâs supervisor at the Buffalo Police training academy.
But Beaty was in the midst of a âmeteoric riseâ to the top of the police brass, becoming a lieutenant, then district chief and by 2014, deputy police commissioner.
By 2017, the promotions resulted in Beaty, who was one of the few women of color in leadership positions on the police force, supervising her old boss and Mann, a police captain, claimed Beaty âexerted her authority over meâ to the point of harassment.
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The criminal justice system is a key part of America’s race problem, according to panelists during a virtual session sponsored Thursday evening by Erie Community College’s Anti-Racism Task Force.
The topic was Black and Blue: Policing Communities of Color. For the speakers, the topic has changed considerably because of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a mainly white mob. One speaker said the riot would have ended far differently if the mob had been African Americans.
A number of police officers have been arrested for participating and some Capital Police are being probed.