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Wanda Boone: Do Our Drug and Alcohol Policies Value All Children?
The neighborhood streets and parks in my hometown were safe day and night. Teachers behaved maturely and fairly. Local officials, religious leaders, community members and parents set aside personal feelings about race and came together to create policies and standards to protect all children. Read more here.
Lapd Found No Bias in All 1,356 Complaints Filed Against Officers
(Los Angeles, CA) — The Los Angeles Police Department did not uphold any of the 1,356 allegations of biased policing by officers that the agency investigated in recent years, according to a report by the Police Commission's watchdog. Read more here.
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Announces New Research Partnership with CPE, EEOC to Advance Diversity in Law Enforcement
(Washington, DC) -- Today, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, announced a research partnership with the Center for Policing Equity to advance diversity in law enforcement through a Civil Rights Division-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission interagency effort. Read Principal Deputy Assistant…
The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States: Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Effective Law Enforcement
The May 2015 release of the report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing highlighted a fundamental change in the issues dominating discussions about policing in America. That change has moved discussions away from a focus on what is legal or effective in crime control and toward a…
How Las Vegas Metro PD got Ahead of OIS and UOF Controversies
In 2012-2013, LVMPD conducted surveys regarding best practices and training curriculums. Every feedback form was read. In addition, recommendations were derived from a study by Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff which indicated there needed to be relevancy. Dr. Goff is recognized as an expert on contemporary forms of racial bias and…
We Can Transform Perceptions of Black Men and Boys
According to Perception Institute's research adviser Phillip Atiba Goff's Center for Policing Equity, we can make policing fairer by using data to identify officers likely to engage in biased practices. In education, simply removing identifying demographic information from high stakes tests can improve scores for black students. Using data to…
Review to Help Colorado Springs Police Determine If They Have Trust Issues with Citizens
Months before a young black man, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the Colorado Springs Police Department had agreed to take part in a comprehensive review of its policies and procedures. The Center for Policing Equity, based at the University of California,…
San Francisco May Require More Race Data
San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen introduced legislation at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors' meeting that would require the police and sheriff's departments to present public quarterly reports on the race of all people stopped by law enforcement officers in the city. The proposal comes after several high-profile killings of black men…
Program Aims to Boost Police-Community Ties but Some Doubt it Will Work
Phillip Goff, a social psychology associate professor at UCLA, said the project is not a police-led initiative. "This is an initiative that is based in evidence, based in science with the goal of repairing and improving police-community relations," he said. "The goal is not to be doing something from just…
Researchers Detail Program to Reduce Racially Biased Policing in Minneapolis
National researchers presented to the Minneapolis City Council on Wednesday more details about a three-year, multi-million-dollar, federal program to study and reduce racially biased policing within the city. During a City Council committee of the whole meeting, organizers discussed the National Initiative for Building Community Trust & Justice, a project…
Using ‘Darkness’ To Shed Light On Racial Profiling Claims
Using ‘Darkness’ To Shed Light On Racial Profiling Claims
Police Racism: A Search for Answers
One evening in 2008, Phillip Atiba Goff set out to perform what seemed a fairly routine task: He was trying to track down data on race and police behavior. He had recently co-founded the Center for Policing Equity at UCLA, with a goal to improve relations between police departments and…
LA Police Commission Finds Ezell Ford Shooting Out of Policy
LA Police Commission finds Ezell Ford shooting out of policy
‘Out of Control’ Texas Officer who Threw Girl to Ground at Pool Party Resigns
‘Out of control’ Texas officer who threw girl to ground at pool party resigns
Statement About the Police-Involved Episode in McKinney, Texas
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Today, Center for Policing Equity President and Co-founder Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff released the following statement about the police-involved episode in McKinney, Texas: "In the wake of the recent police-involved episode in McKinney, Texas, the nation is not reacting simply to another incident of what appears…
Watching the Local News Could Make You Racist
Watching the local news could make you racist
California Bill Requires Data on Police Racial Profiling
1 9 1 California bill requires data on police racial profiling
Police Don’t Need to Hug Black People. They Just Need to Stop Killing Them.
Police don’t need to hug black people. They just need to stop killing them.
I’m a Black Ex-Cop, and This Is the Real Truth about Race and Policing
I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
Before Cleveland and Ferguson was Albuquerque: Six Months after DOJ Report, Change Is Far Off
Before Cleveland and Ferguson was Albuquerque: six months after DoJ report, change is far off
Cleveland Police Will Strive for Bias-Free Policing under Justice Department Consent Decree
Cleveland police will strive for bias-free policing under Justice Department consent decree
Pittsburgh Meeting Part of Attempt to Boost Police-Community Ties
A group of researchers aiming to reduce bias and improve police-community relations will travel to Pittsburgh this week to meet with officers and residents. Their work is part of a federal pilot program run through the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice and focusing on six cities across…
Obama to Police: Less Call of Duty Weapons, More Call of Data
The White House is pushing police departments to share more information on officer behavior. Under the data program, 21 police departments have elected to share information about police use of force, pedestrian and vehicle stops, officer-involved shootings, police behavior, and other data sets on law enforcement activity. The initiative is…