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/ Over the last decade, CMPD is making far fewer arrests and writing far fewer citations. The decline has continued during the pandemic.
In the last decade, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have made a quiet and dramatic change: Officers are making far fewer arrests and writing far fewer citations.
In 2009, in Rodney Monroe’s second year as chief, CMPD made 32,081 arrests, according to records provided to WFAE.
That number has ticked downward each year, reaching 16,401 people in 2018. After increasing slightly in 2019, the number of arrests plummeted again in 2020 during the pandemic, to 14,535.
And for the first quarter of 2021, arrests were down nearly 30% compared to the same period a year ago.
Detroit as a Model for Building Back Better
Cities have more experience, and examples, than they might realize when it comes to reinventing systems of investment and governance to recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. May 11, 2021, 6am PDT | James Brasuell |
Rip Rapson, president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, writes for Bloomberg CityLab on how Detroit s recent experience with municipal bankruptcy provides lessons that can inform a radical new model of economic recovery a mode necessitated by the scale of the pandemic crisis and the economic stagnation and racial injustice that existed before the novel coronavirus.
Rapson recalls the Build Back better mantra of the economic recovery plan proposed by the Biden administration during the presidential campaign and embodied in the American Rescue Plan, approved earlier this year, and the American Jobs Plan, proposed more recently but still a long way away from approval.
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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and chihuahua imitators.
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