Today’s Solutions: September 18, 2023
The Optimist Daily Update
The Optimist Daily Update
June 9, 2020
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Defunding the the police as a solution for change: The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen – Your weekday commute update featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we share a clip from Kristy’s interview with Aqeela Sherrills, a community leader and peace advocate who helped broker an agreement between rival gangs in Los Angeles in 1992. Now, he works in Newark, NJ and shares with us his vision for ending violent policing and reducing crime through funding community outreach programs. 

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