Cleveland’s Black voters want tough oversight of cops. Will police allow it? - "Cleveland’s history shows how difficult it is to change police behavior. As early as 1922, a Cleveland Foundation report called for dismantling the bureaucracy that protects bad officers and makes it difficult to fire them. A report issued in 1945 recommended that social service agencies, not armed police, respond to social welfare calls. Reports in the 1960s and 1970s, as the civil rights movement reshaped America, recommended that officers be trained in African American history. Over decades, report after report called for recruiting more Black officers. And while the number of Black officers is up, 67 percent are White in a city where nearly 50 percent of the residents are Black."
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