CPE in the News

The Center for Policing Equity was mentioned in an op-ed by Karen Thompson, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ALCU). Thompson works on civil rights and constitutional issues, focusing on racial inequality. Her op-ed calls for the elimination of low-level t...

CPE Co-founder, President, and COO Dr. Tracie Keesee discussed the recently announced verdicts in the case against officers charged in the 2019 murder of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who wa...

The Markup recently published the first installment in a multipart investigation series on using artificial intelligence programs in policing. The first publication focused on Geolitica, a software th...

The United Nations Human Rights Council launched an investigation into the American prison system in 2021 at the peak of international protests around the murder of George Floyd. The findings were pub...

CPE co-founder and President Dr. Tracie Keesee spoke to The Intercept as they completed their investigation into repercussions faced by law enforcement officials involved in high-profile death inciden...

The Associated Press published an article on the controversial photo taken after the capture of prison escapee Danelo Cavalcante in Pennsylvania. The leaked image showed a visibly injured Cavalcante s...

Barron's published a conversation with Billionaire philanthropist and businessman Jeff Green in which he mentioned his interest in the Center for Policing Equity's work, specifically the intersection ...

Scarlet Neath, CPE's Policy Director, spoke to Governing to discuss new policing approaches to address non-emergency incidents. Governing is a news media website that covers state and local government...

NBC Action News 5, local Memphis television station WMC-TV, aired news coverage of the National Convening Series hosted by the National Civil Rights Museum. Eric Cumberbatch, CPE's Senior Vice Preside...

Axios Philadelphia interviewed Dr. Hans Menos, the Vice President of the Triage Response Team at the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) in the aftermath of the police murder of 27-year-old Eddie Irizarr...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) held a conference focused on the theme of Evidence to Action. The conference’s many discussions all engaged with key questions about how the criminal and juveni...

The Center for Policing Equity supports an announcement from the Cambridge Police Department in the State of Massachusetts to launch a new publicly accessible arrest, summons, citation, and use of for...

CPE Senior Director of Law Enforcement Initiatives Niles Wilson recently penned an op-ed for NJ Spotlight News about the need for a more thoughtful approach to traffic safety in the State of New Jerse...

On July 11th, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) joined community members and testified in support of Senate Bill 50 before the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee in Sacramento, Calif...

The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) stands in solidarity with U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush and her colleagues as they reintroduce the People’s Response Act. According to their announcement, this grou...

The Associated Press published coverage of the police murder of a 17-year-old in France that has sparked nationwide unrest that is now gaining international attention. According to the Associated Pres...

CPE Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff sat down with MSNBC's Alex Wagner to discuss the new report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) detailing the rampant use of excessive force and oth...

The meteoric rise in the use of artificial intelligence programs to generate images from text-based prompts opens the door to numerous bias concerns. Bloomberg recently conducted an investigation of t...

CBS News covered the recent announcement that CPE will join partners to conduct a thorough analysis of fare evasion enforcement policies and practices at BART.  These efforts underway aim to directly ...

Axios covered new research published by the Journal of Community Health, an academic publication for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The data study revealed that the rate of Hispanics killed ...

Dr. Tracie Keesee, CPE President, COO, and Co-Founder was interviewed by St. Louis Patch-Dispatch for an article about a new investigation conducted by news media company Lee Enterprises and Type Inve...