Private Company Moves to Profit From New York’s Police Reforms
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/08/09/new-york-police-reform-lexipol
Police departments in New York, facing a state mandate on reform, are turning to the consulting company Lexipol for help. The protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have accelerated changes in New York state that police reform advocates had fought to enact for years. Within days of the protests spreading to New York City and across the state, legislators moved to ban chokeholds and repeal a controversial law that has long protected records of police abuse (...)