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How Denver s collaborative plan for policing compares to what community leaders want
KMGH
and last updated 2021-05-24 17:06:33-04
DENVER â City officials on Monday unveiled what they called a collaborative, community-based approach to policing in Denver, one aimed at reducing violent crime while the city also recovers from the effects of the pandemic.
The plan, part of the city s COVID-19 recovery strategy, included input from Mayor Michael Hancock, the city s public safety director, Murphy Robinson, police Chief Paul Pazen and other city and county officials.
But while the plan was presented as a public safety transformation, it strongly contrasted â both in scope and specifics â with a 53-page report released last week by a community-wide task force.
A community-led task force established in the wake of the Denver Police Department s heavy-handed response to the George Floyd protests just issued a series of recommendations that would transform the City of Denver s approach to public safety.
“Our goal is to create a community-based public-safety model that protects and heals the community from centuries of violence and systemic oppression,” explains task force coordinator Robert Davis of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance.
Along with Davis, other members of the task force which was funded by the Rose Community Foundation and Caring 4 Denver include Xochitl Gaytan, who serves as co-chair of the Colorado Latino Forum, and Jill Locantore, executive director of WalkDenver. Various nonprofits also assisted the task force in its research, as did groups like the Vera Institute of Justice. Representatives from Denver City Council, the Denver District Attorney s Office, the Office of the Municipal Public Defender, th
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