Public Safety in Public Hands
Channel: Laura Flanders & Friends
Date: 2020-06-09

Over the last 50 years, every public service in the U.S. has been defunded, shrunk and starved, with the exception of law enforcement. Now, at a turning point in the nation’s tolerance for racism, inequality and police brutality, organizers and civic leaders are demanding we shift power and resources away from policing and cruelty and towards investing in public health, caring and community control. Here, director Aqeela Sherrills explains how the Newark Community Street Team (NCST) in collaboration with the administration of Mayor Ras Baraka, has adopted a community-wide public health approach to public safety and security. After six years, their work is having an impact, and violence and “crime” rates are down.  As the nation begins talks of divestment from the police and investment in Black communities, the NCST is a standing model of what can be done now.  

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