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Published: 1/11/2021 8:06:33 PM
NORTHAMPTON If your sibling was being evicted from their apartment, how would you want them to be helped?
Daniel Cannity, chairman of the Northampton Policing Review Commission, posed the question to the City Council on Thursday evening.
“By a police officer or by a caseworker who can assist them with obtaining alternate housing?” he said, noting that he was quoting commission member Booker Bush. “If a community has nothing else to offer, the police become the answer.”
Cannity was presenting the commission’s 29-page preliminary report, which details the work that its subcommittees Alternatives to Policing, Policies and Services, and Spending and Contracts has done so far to study the Northampton Police Department and recommend reforms. ....

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