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The Philadelphia police officers have been undergoing crisis intervention reforms since the 2020 killing of Walter Wallace Jr in West Philly in 2020, which includes the the department spending $14 million to equip all officers with Tasers. Previously CIT training had been mandatory for all cops carrying stun guns, but now that training has become optional in order to speed up the rollout of the stun guns. ....
Cleveland police consent decree panel discussion focuses on crisis intervention and officer wellness By Stephanie Czekalinski | May 12, 2021 at 3:45 PM EDT - Updated May 12 at 3:45 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The United Way of Greater Cleveland and the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP are hosting an online dialogue Wednesday on the police reform mandated by the consent decree between the U.S. Department of Justice and the City of Cleveland. The dialogue is the fifth in an 11-month long series of dialogues on the consent decree between the U.S. Department of Justice and the City of Cleveland. The parties reached the consent decree after the DOJ investigated the use of force of the city’s police department after a well-publicized car chase and shooting that left two dead. ....