CPE in the News

In a statement about the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) crowd management policies, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell noted the successful passage of new crowd management legislation that incorporates best practices recommended by partners like the Center for Policing Equity: 

“The adopted ordinance re...

At 20, Marion Bowman was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Kandee Martin, a crime for which he maintains his innocence. Now at 44, he is the “fifth Black prisoner South Carolina would...

KUTV, a television station and CBS affiliate in Salt Lake City, reports on data from the Department of Public Safety that shows a decline “in aggravated assaults, kidnappings, rapes and murders” in th...

In 2023, the St. Louis County Police Department saw a surge in police use of force, which commonly includes use of guns, physical restraint, pepper spray, Tasers, and canine bites. The St. Louis Post-...

Utah law enforcement officials are assessing how the incoming Trump administration’s deportation agenda will impact the safety of their communities, reports Deseret News. The new agenda calls for loca...

For decades, former Kansas City, Kansas detective Roger Golubski committed heinous crimes against members of the community he was sworn to protect, using his status as a police officer “to violate the...

Black Enterprise, a magazine publication, reports that the Independent Office for Police Conduct, based in the UK, has called for measures to stop the “adultification” of Black children in England and...

Legislation banning masks during protests has gained traction in several states, reports The Marshall Project, which, when paired with law enforcement surveillance technology, puts protestors at an in...

In October, John Sawchak, a White man, shot and nearly killed his Black neighbor, Davis Moturi, over a dispute regarding the trimming of a tree. The incident was a culmination of a long period of hara...

Since 2016, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has provided reports, based on assessments conducted under a DOJ consent decree, intended to assess bias in their department’s procedures. However,...

The Federalist Society published a blog post on the certiorari-stage amicus brief filed by The Cato Institute, in collaboration with the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) and CPE, that urges t...

CPE announced the publication of a new white paper, Do Not Investigate: Anti-Abortion, Anti-Trans, and Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws. The resource provides recommendations for deprioritizing the enforcement of sta...

In their coverage of the firing of Denver’s former Regional Transportation District (RTD) Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald, the magazine publication Black Enterprise cited data from CPE report, “Second Ch...

KTLA-5 reported on the California’s Irvine Police Department (IPD) purchase of an over $150,000 Cybertruck for use at community events and as part of the department’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education p...

Launched in September 2024, the National Police Index allows residents from 17 states to access the employment history of police officers, according to the Detroit Metro Times. However, Michigan state...

Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon, CPE Co-Founder & CEO, published an op-ed in The Hill about how Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign will need to navigate unconscious and unspoken biases in t...

In this op-ed published in Black America Web, an online publication providing news, entertainment, and original content for the Black community, co-authors Scarlet Neath, CPE Policy Director, and Priy...

Fatal police encounters have been on the rise in Wisconsin, with police departments on track this year to exceed the record of 26 deaths set in 2017, the Wisconsin Watch reports. Notably, the state’s ...

The killing of Victoria Lee by New Jersey police officer Tony Pickens while she was experiencing a mental health crisis has sparked outrage at the police handling of mental health emergencies nationwi...

CNN reports on the nation’s progress toward preventing the killings of unarmed Black people a decade after Mike Brown’s murder “brought the issue of police use of force against unarmed Black Americans...

Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, was murdered in her home by former Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson. A Huffpost article details how, despite Illinois’ 2021 police reform laws,...