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Bass, Van Hollen to reintroduce bill to reform handling of nonviolent 911 calls


During the virtual press call, Von Hollen said that too often calls that come in through 911 do not require a use of force response, and yet, too often, they result in unnecessary escalation and unjust deaths.
The bill was initially introduced in the waning days of the last session of Congress but failed to gain any traction. 
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It will be reintroduced next week in the Senate and the week after that in the House, Van Hollen said. 
“What this bill is designed to do,” the senator continued, “is provide federal incentives in the form of grants to cities and other local jurisdictions to develop alternatives to police response when an alternative response is more appropriate … like mental health situations or substance use disorder crises, or when people are checking in for health and safety.” ....

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'There's a dividing line' - Vaccination rates trace socioeconomic boundaries in CT


There s a dividing line - Vaccination rates trace socioeconomic boundaries in CT
Kasturi Pananjady and Dave Altimari, CTmirror.org
June 3, 2021
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COVID-19 vaccination and observation area at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven in March 2021.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.org
Liany Arroyo, the director of the Hartford Health Department, spends a lot of her time studying neighborhoods in Hartford and finding patterns in their vaccination rates.
The downtown areas of Hartford and those that lie to the west of the city show higher vaccination rates in general. Other neighborhoods have sharply lower rates.
“The West End is a more affluent neighborhood,” Arroyo said. “There’s a dividing line there.” ....

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