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Brendan Cox

Brendan Cox is the former police chief of Albany, New York, and the director of policing strategies for the LEAD National Support Bureau.

December 28, 2023: A plan to sweep the homeless encampment at Harbor View Park on Thursday was postponed due to wet weather. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

The Supreme Court could make homelessness worse in America

Chesa Boudin, Brendan Cox, Miriam Aroni Krinsky