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State and Local Issues

Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.

Phoenix police tied the record for shootings in an entire year as of July 23

"That shooting marked the 31st of the year involving the Phoenix Police Department, matching an agency high for shootings in an entire calendar year, records maintained by The Arizona Republic show. The incident continued the breakneck pace of law enforcement-involved shootings in the city, which is also driving a countywide tally — 59 this year — toward a record set five years ago. For perspective, there were 21 Phoenix Police Department shootings in 2017."

Arizona Central

July 23, 2018

Police ViolenceAnthony BradleyJuly 31, 2018Arizona Central, Phoenix, Arizona

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