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23 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Demands for police accountability, criminal justice reform and racial justice have been translated from rallying cries and protest signs into initiatives on state and local ballots.

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The protests have sparked a wave of change.

According to a @ballotpedia count, there are at least 20 local police-related measures that qualified for the ballot after the killing of George Floyd.

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While some of the measures were proposed directly as a response to the police killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the calls for change that followed, others had been in the pipeline for years or months, only to gain new momentum this spring.

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Up and down the docket, budgetary priorities will be evaluated and police accountability policies could be bolstered.

Many of these changes require amending city charters, the equivalent of a local constitution.

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These latest ballot initiatives against police violence toward African Americans didn’t appear out of nowhere.

Change has been incremental — but these initiatives represent a new chapter in the policy responses to protests.

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Here are some notable measures to watch:
🗳️Funding social service alternatives to the police
🗳️Removing minimum police staffing requirements
🗳️Increasing police accountability

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