A Senator criticizes Nixon for not having detailed plans for Ferguson
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A Senator criticizes Nixon for not having detailed plans for Ferguson

Date: January 20, 2016
By: Stephanie Sandoval
State Capitol Bureau

 
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Nixon said new rules have been added to Missouri's police training in his State of the State Address, but said nothing on how to reduce the violence.
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Wrap: St. Louis Senator Jamilah Nasheed she said fighting crime should be Nixon's main priority. Last year she put in 750,000 dollars into the budget for prisoners to reenter into society. Nixon took that out of the budget this year.

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Description: "people not gonna wanna live there, they're not gonna want to play there, they're not gonna want to work there if we have a high murder rate and if we have a high crime rate."
She said there is a direct correlation with prisoners not having the resources they need to reenter into society and violence. She said Gov. Nixon should have put in money into reentry programs and the use of body cameras.