From the article: "...Through YouTube, the company pledged $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity (CPE). The CPE remains an organization aimed at reducing racial inequity in policing. The body worked directly with police forces to revise policies that would result in fewer people killed or injured in altercations. Directly, it pledged $12 million to various unnamed organizations aimed at fighting racial injustice and $15 million in ad credits to assist other organizations in extending their reach. This included $1 million in donations to the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Policing Reform Campaign, and the Movement for Black Lives. These efforts are a lot less sexy, and results are less immediately apparent. However, their work has been important in tackling the historic inequalities in the U.S. justice system.
Google's Sundar Pichai delivered an update on this program in October 2020, saying that almost all of the $12 million had been distributed. Pichai also noted that Google had "embedded a team of pro-bono engineers in the Center for Policing Equity to help expand its National Justice Database..."
By Derrek Lee and Michael Allison
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