The Justice Department today announced the Model Cities Initiative (MCI), a whole-of-city approach directing nearly $300 million in federal funding to transform public safety in America’s cities. Through this initiative, two to four cities will be selected to receive awards supporting the implementation of comprehensive and innovative strategies to reduce crime, restore law and

sounds good, but why do I have a feeling these will all be red state cities?

  • FullPenguin@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Because “Restoring Law and Order” is a dog whistle for systematically racist policing.

    I can guarantee that a city like Baltimore will not see a dollar of this even though the City’s tactics have brought about a historic crime reduction without significantly increasing police spending (For reference, Baltimore has reduced it’s homicide rate by about 72% in just 4 years).