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The firestorm caused by the Windsor police officer who pepper sprayed an African-American Army officer may end up changing the relationship between money and policing in Virginia.
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Delegate Betsy Carr of Richmond says this incident reveals why police departments and sheriff s offices should be de-incentivized from making traffic stops. Police are incentivized if they re going to get money from it just to make more traffic stops, and a lot of time Black and brown folks are the people who are bearing the brunt of this.
But Dana Schrad at the police chiefs association says local governments get that money, not police. The financial incentive is not on the part of the police department, Schrad argues. It might be on the part of the locality. But the locality has always expressed that their chief concern is that speeding on that route that goes through their community presents risks for the business o
Q&A: Delegate Carr talks about legislative goals in upcoming session Mansur Shaheen | Dec 21, 2020
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Delegate Alfred C. Carr represents Maryland’s 18th district. He serves a member of the Maryland House Health & Government committee. Del. Carr shared with the State of Reform his committee’s goals for the upcoming 2021 legislative session, and how COVID-19 will change the way the General Assembly operates in the new year.
Mansur Shaheen: Tell me about yourself, what career path led to you to become a state delegate and why did you choose to run for office?
Alfred Carr: I have lived in Maryland for about 23 years. My origin story of how I got involved in public service has to do with pedestrian safety. I live right on Connecticut Avenue, which is a very busy road, and at the intersection here there is no traffic signal, so there is no safe way to get across. My next-door neighbor enlisted me to help in that effort. And then I became interested in improvi