Traffic Safety and Our Need to go From Auto-Centric, to People-Centric Streets

by Kenny Boddye, Occoquan District Supervisor In one of their most recent press releases, the Prince William County Police Department sounded the alarm on a sharp increase in pedestrian-related crashes throughout the county. According to the data collected by our Transportation and Police Departments, these incidents are a lot more likely in the heavily-populated segments […]

White Supremacy Has No Home in Prince William County

Editor’s Note: The following editorial is written by Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye, who recently held a town hall on racial healing and justice reform, which you can view here. We thank Supervisor Boddye for his contributions to our community. As of the writing of this post, it will have been 68 days since the […]

Policy Strategies that actually address Structural Racism

*Cross-posted from Virginia Justice Democrats, co-authored with Alison Symons. George Floyd’s murder wasn’t an accident. Neither was Breonna Taylor’s, Ahmaud Aubrey’s, or Tony McDade. This isn’t just in reference to the deliberate, willful acts of brutality and violence which led to their deaths, either. George Floyd’s murder was made possible by systemic racism woven into […]