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Essential reading. Support for alternatives is a pittance compared to funding for cops. Actually, hot spot policing ruins lives. I hope the new (white) police chief in Baton Rouge doesn't disband this program.

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A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventingwww.nytimes.com In Baton Rouge, a public safety experiment could help to answer a critical question: Do community efforts to reduce street violence work?

More info on alternatives (and on how police are well-funded violent gangs that steal and murder with impunity) from the Brennan Center, the podcast One Million Experiments, and the work of Alec Karakatsanis and Civil Rights Corps (@equalityalec on Twitter). And of course @prisonculture.bsky.social