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Where We Go From Here

Posted 6/12/20

Legislative changes that will significantly affect police discipline, from the penalties involved to public disclosure of relevant past violations by cops, moved to enactment by Governor Cuomo so quickly that the police unions had no real chance to head them off. 
 
These reforms and the speed with which they were passed—including a ban on cops statewide using choke-holds that got unanimous support from Republicans in the State Senate as well as the Democratic majority—are an unambiguous message about how public sentiment has shifted in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer on Memorial Day.

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