North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper signed an executive order creating the “task force for racial equity in criminal justice” in June 2020 and appointed then-Attorney General Josh Stein and state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls as co-chairs.
The 166-page report lists 125 recommendations aimed at weakening public safety.
“North Carolina can reimagine public safety,” the authors wrote in a letter to Cooper, adding their recommendations “provide a framework for meaningful change, but this report is not the first nor final word on what can and should be done to address racial equity in our criminal justice system.”
In the executive summary, the reports says, “We often hear that...
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