A new crisis policy for Cleveland police will allow officers with specialized training to refer some people having a mental health or substance abuse crisis to hospitals and treatment facilities rather than arrest them for minor crimes. The crisis intervention policy was submitted late Thursday to the federal judge overseeing an agreement between Cleveland and U.S. Department of Justice to reform the city’s police department.

Today, we will all witness one of the most important features of our American democracy – the peaceful transition of power from one president to the next. We will see a presidential inauguration that, according to pollsters, the media and the so-called establishments of both political parties, and perhaps even the voters themselves, wasn’t supposed to happen.