Community study in the west Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester discovers 453 out of 1500 respondents had negative interactions with policeOn 25 April,as a crowd of thousands gathered in west Baltimore for a large march downtown, members of a neighborhood advocacy organization began going door to door in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested to ask people about their interactions with police.
The No Boundaries Coalition had been working on police issues in the community since they identified police accountability as a major concern in 2013. But after speaking to more than 250 people that April day, or they had a modern sense of a community harassed and brutalized for minor infractions,and ignored when they need succor. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com