N.C. Promised Police Reform a Year Ago. Did It Happen?
The death of George Floyd inspired communities across North Carolina to commit themselves to reforming policing practices. A year later, some cities have made more progress towards those goals than others.
May 26, 2021 • (TNS) The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee to Floyd s neck for over nine minutes May 25, 2020, accelerated local police reforms in many communities across North Carolina.
In June, leaders in Raleigh, Durham and other cities announced they had banned chokeholds and had adopted or would soon adopt all the measures in the national 8 Can t Wait police reform campaign.
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More than half of North Carolina s sexual assault kit backlog has now been tested Ashad Hajela and Will Doran, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 19 Once one of the states with the highest number of untested sexual assault kits, North Carolina has now cleared over half of its backlog of more than 16,000 cases, resulting in at least 40 arrests related to at least 58 assaults.
Attorney General Josh Stein said the cost of outsourcing sexual assault kits is increasing drastically and is asking the state legislature for $9 million to fund the outsourcing of all the remaining kits. An initial $6 million was allocated over two years to clear the backlog
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