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How Cincinnati CAN became Cincinnati DID 20 years after unrest
Unheralded reform panel had lasting impact
Kareem Elgazzar | WCPO
Posted at 5:00 AM, Apr 09, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-09 05:00:49-04
CINCINNATI — The way the Collaborative Agreement has changed Cincinnati’s policing practices gets all the attention when it comes to the city’s response to the fatal shooting of Timothy Thomas 20 years ago.
But an unheralded civic panel formed in the aftermath of Cincinnati’s 2001 racial reckoning also had lasting impact on the region.
Cincinnati CAN, which stood for “Community Action Now,” issued a series of recommendations in 2003 after studying the racial disparities underlying the civil unrest that Thomas’s killing sparked. ....

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