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CPE Response to Executive Order “Unleashing” America’s Law Enforcement

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Statement by Phillip Atiba Solomon, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity (CPE): “The Administration’s new executive order claims to strengthen law enforcement, but its true effect is undermining public trust, overriding local decision-making, and disrupting the careful balance between safety and accountability on which our democracy depends.  Released just before the nation marks five years since the lynching of George Floyd and the historic protests it ignited, this order threatens to reverse hard-won progress by disregarding demands for fair, accountable policing and instead pushing to expand law enforcement with minimal oversight.  The executive order also lays the groundwork for consolidating the administration’s influence over local police, undermining democratic governance, and reshaping local law enforcement around its political agenda.  True public safety is not achieved through unchecked force. It is built by addressing root causes of community crises, investing in vulnerable populations, and implementing evidence-driven approaches. Real safety is built […]

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CPE and the Fines & Fees Justice Center Publish White Paper on Prioritizing Safety in Federal Transportation Funding

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The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) and the Fines & Fees Justice Center (FFJC) announce the publication of a new white paper titled, “Beyond Enforcement: Prioritizing Safety in Federal Transportation Funding.” This white paper examines the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) prioritization and funding of traffic enforcement measured by frequency rather than safety – an approach shown to repeatedly increase racial disparities for Black and Latine drivers – and the risks of continuing to prioritize and fund such enforcement. The paper also provides recommendations for federal officials to clarify what a successful multifaceted systemic approach looks like in order to truly improve traffic safety outcomes. “For decades, law enforcement agencies have been quietly incentivized by grant funding structures to make as many stops and write as many tickets as possible – resulting in policing for profit over safety,” says Scarlet Neath, Policy Director at CPE. “We are grateful to have

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CPE Publishes White Paper on Compounding Anti-Black Racial Disparities in Police Stops

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The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) announces the publication of a new white paper titled “Compounding Anti-Black Racial Disparities in Police Stops.” This paper provides an overview of racial disparities in the multiple decisions police officers make when interacting with the public during vehicle stops. More specifically, the white paper maps how racial disparities during traffic stops increase the risks of harm for Black drivers at subsequent decision points throughout the encounter and that these traffic stops serve no public safety or crime reduction purpose. “Decades of research shows that Black people disproportionately bear the brunt of policing in the United States,” said the paper’s author Matthew A. Graham, Senior Data Analyst at CPE. “They’re stopped more often for pretextual, non-public-safety related reasons like expired plates, tinted windows, and broken taillights, which are exactly the types of stops that are much more likely to result in a search, so Black

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