{"id":18433,"date":"2022-01-25T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18433"},"modified":"2022-01-25T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:22:49","slug":"a-must-listen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18433","title":{"rendered":"a must listen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DEFUNDING THE POLICE: DEFINING THE WAY FORWARD FOR HRM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>El Jones walks us through the report&#8217;s rethink on&nbsp;how to keep our&nbsp;communities safe and examines the common ground between supporters and opponents of defunding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click Link for <strong>CBC frontburne<\/strong>r Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/a-path-for-halifax-to-defund-the-police-1.6325044?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/a-path-for-halifax-to-defund-the-police-1.6325044?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/a-path-for-halifax-to-defund-the-police-1.6325044?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Halifax committee tasked with defining what it means to defund the police has released its final report: a 219-page document that recommends numerous reforms and reimagines&nbsp;our&nbsp;communities&#8217; relationship with law enforcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, prepared for the city\u2019s Board of the Police Commissioners by a 14-member subcommittee, was formally presented to the board by subcommittee chairperson El Jones. It makes 36 recommendations on police practices, oversight and accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/El-Jones-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><strong>El Jones is a Poet<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-El-Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-El-Jones.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-El-Jones-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-El-Jones-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"887\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/police-budget.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/police-budget.jpg 887w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/police-budget-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/police-budget-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As an aside<\/strong>: Halifax Regional Municipality released its 2021 sunshine list, showing 1,065 employees made more than <em>$100,000 <\/em>in the last fiscal year, and <strong><em>more than 40% of them work for the police force.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halifax Regional <strong><em>Police Chief Dan Kinsella was the second<\/em>-highest paid employee<\/strong> <strong>in HRM<\/strong>, up from eighth the year before, making $253,946.39. That\u2019s an increase of 18% over the $215,409.19 he made last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFUNDING THE POLICE: DEFINING THE WAY FORWARD FOR HRM El Jones walks us through the report&#8217;s rethink on&nbsp;how to keep our&nbsp;communities safe and examines the common ground between supporters and opponents of defunding. Click Link for CBC frontburner Podcast https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/frontburner\/a-path-for-halifax-to-defund-the-police-1.6325044?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar A Halifax committee tasked with defining what it means to defund the police has released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a must listen&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18907,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}