Carrboro Apologizes for Yates Building Police Action
This semester I have served OrangePolitics as a student intern to complete a minimum 30-hour service-learning requirement for a sociology class entitled “Social and Economic Justice.” The course is a...
View ArticleCarrboro Anti-Loitering Ordinance Repealed in Unanimous Decision
Carrboro’s controversial four-year-old anti-loitering ordinance, which prohibited people from lingering at the intersection of Jones Ferry and Davie roads past 11:00 am, was rescinded in a unanimous...
View ArticleAre the County and Towns Tracking Our Cell Phones?
In August 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina Foundation filed public records requests with all 100 North Carolina counties and all police departments in municipalities...
View ArticleDisarm Front-Line Police?
In the wake of the President's call to re-examine the militarization of police in the US, I go one step further, and wonder if it is not time now actively to consider disarming front-line police...
View ArticleWhere Are The Six Armored Personnel Carriers?
Two weeks ago, we in Orange County, NC learned that six armored personnel carriers had been made available to law enforcement in our county. We are told, two weeks later, that elected officials within...
View ArticleTown of Carrboro Community Forum on Policing
Public Health & SafetyCarrboro PoliceCarrboroDate: Monday, October 6, 2014 - 7:00pm to 9:00pmLocation: Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, CarrboroOn October 6, the Town of Carrboro will hold a community...
View ArticleIn Review- A Comparison of Chapel Hill and Carrboro's Forums on Policing
In light of national struggles with policing methods, enforcement and militarization, both Chapel Hill and Carrboro police departments hosted sessions for community members to voice their potential...
View ArticleTown of Carrboro Community Forum on Policing
Public Health & SafetyCarrboroCarrboro PoliceDate: Monday, June 29, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pmLocation: Town Hall, 301 W Main Street, CarrboroMore Information:...
View ArticleCarrboro Police Department is now on Orange Politics
Officer D here; this is my first post on Orange Politics!For those of you who don't know me, I'm a member of the Carrboro Police Department's Community Services Division. One of my primary assignments...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement in Orange County: Reforming, Defunding, Abolition
Amid recent police killings, in the time of COVID-19, there are renewed calls for community safety changes including defunding the police, reforms such as the 8 Can't Wait Movement and abolition....
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