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Mayoral Madness: James Walsh on Worker Power, Harm Reduction and UBI

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The Role of Police in the City of Denver

I'm not about abolishing the police. I think we need police. Police are important. It's really about reshaping the mission of police and what they do ... They're there to serve, that's a mindset that comes through training. The star program is a great start. That needs to be expanded. A lot of officers have a kind of much easement of socialization where seeking mental health treatment is weakness or something like that. So getting officers beyond that, knowing that it's a very stressful work... Force should always be last.

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