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Safe Silver Spring meeting on Minorities and the Criminal Justice System - 917




The focus of the meeting will be on “Minorities and the Criminal Justice System.”  The Speakers include:

·         State Delegate Aisha Braveboy, Prince George’s County District 25

·         Rashad Price, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Youth Violence Prevention Program

·         Saschane Stephenson, President, African-American Democratic Club, 

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This meeting is cosponsored by Prezco (President’s Council of Silver Spring Civic Associations), SSCAB, Councilmembers Elrich, Leventhal and Riemer, Delegates Hucker and Mizeur, Greater Silver Spring Democratic Club, Montgomery County Young Dems, Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers, Renter's Alliance, Pyramid Atlantic, and Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence.

Below are a number of useful articles on this topic.  As can be seen minorities are over-represented as to arrests and the picture worsens the deeper we look at the criminal justice system.  One of the alternatives that our speakers will discuss is diversion programs.  

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