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Community organizations active in Troy held a town hall Sunday evening to share their vision for policing in the Collar City.
In their eyes, Troy’s Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative has fallen short. All across New York state, municipalities had until April 1st to come up with a written plan aimed at eliminating structural racism and bias in policing, via public input, or risk losing state funding. D. Colin is a poet, actor, and visual artist living in Troy. The PRRC report issued by the mayor fails to recognize that here in Troy last June 11,000 people showed up in solidarity to demand that change, that change action and accountability. The governor s executive orders says whereas there is a long and painful history in New York state of discrimination and mistreatment of Black and African American citizens dating back to the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in America. The PRC report issued by the mayor makes no such acknowledgement.