As the Trump administration continues an aggressive rollback of DEI initiatives, The Guardian explores the impact these executive orders have on policing in the United States. Officers fear that the elimination of these initiatives will erode trust between police and communities, while legal experts warn it could lead to a rise in discriminatory policing practices. In the meantime, many departments are choosing to maintain their DEI initiatives, which, as Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon, CPE Co-Founder and CEO, points out, comes with risks:
Phillip Atiba Solomon, the chief executive of the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that collects and analyzes public safety data to improve policing outcomes, said he wondered whether the Trump administration might try to use the Department of Justice to investigate police departments with DEI programs for “reverse racism.”
Read the full article on The Guardian’s website.