“I don’t know if there is a rational person alive who doesn’t think there are racists or serious injustices,” Montagnino said. That includes Commissioner of Public Safety Jim Montagnino who called the resolution “a litany of self-loathing statements that apply collective guilt to an entire city.” However, not everyone is on board with the plan. The 11-member panel would seek ways to promote restorative justice, a means of allowing a victim to address the victimizer, seek some kind of reparations and move forward together in a positive way. What our resolution does is establish a forum where we talk about these things.” “For example, from the 1960s to the 1980s, urban renewal decimated whole swaths of Saratoga Springs and largely that was based on race. “It’s well-documented that there are problems,” Kim said. Restorative justice practices “repair” to the harm caused by crime and conflict, as opposed to punishment. However, Kim said he does not have specific ideas on what he thinks the panel will address, or in what form such “restorative justice” would take. He said he is not focused solely on police, but also how racism affects housing and employment. “I also think this is a broader view of something the city and the United States at large should grapple with, race relationships and how we address those.” “It was the number one recommendation,” Kim said.
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