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May 29, 2020: Police officers shoot rubber bullets in Los Angeles, during a protest over the death of George Floyd.
There are 18,000 police agencies across the United States, each with its own culture and particular view on police reform. Many of them are now reexamining long-standing training strategies and shifting emphasis from confrontation to de-escalation. Some do better than others.
Facing loud and sustained public protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, police officials have been forced to reduce the use of excessive force. A fundamental shift in public safety strategy is emerging, with a mandate to transform the very nature of police officers from warriors to guardians.
According to the latest update of data maintained by the Center for American Women and Politics, more than 600 women of color are now serving in state legislatures nationwide, an all-time high. At the end of 2020, women of color constituted 7.4% of the total 7,383 state legislators in the country, and they now currently are 8.2%, Chelsea Hill, CAWP data services manager, said.
CAWP is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and it turns out that the data collection effort s home base is performing much better than the national numbers.
Of the 36 women among New Jersey s 120 members of the state Senate and Assembly, 19 are women of color, six of them in the Senate and the other 13 in the Assembly.
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