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Society United Kingdom
There Are More Women and Ethnic Minority Police Officers Here Than Ever Before!
The United Kingdom is more than halfway to meeting its target of adding 20,000 additional police officers to the service by 2023, and an increasing number of women and minorities are hearing the call to serve and protect civilians in England and Wales.
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Society USA
Crimes Drop if We Forgive Petty Crimes, Study Finds
The pandemic experiment conducted in Baltimore, United States, where low-level offenses weren’t prosecuted during the corona lockdown, became a case study in criminal justice reform after showing a decline in almost all categories of crime in the last year.
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Society USA
Many Americans Ask for More Say in Where the Public Money Goes (Less to the Police, for Example)
Amid the nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death all over the United States, activists are now pushing for “participatory budgeting” and redirecting policing budgets towards school, mental health services, job creation, or public housing.
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Call the Police in Texas Now – and Get Mental Help, Too
In parts of Dallas, Texas, 911 emergency calls don’t just involve the police. If the call relates to a mental health crisis, a mental health professional will respond with a team to help avoid violence, jail, or unnecessary hospitalization.
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