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How We Partner with Communities
Policing Equity offers, amplifies, and advocates for solutions that center the expertise, priorities, and safety of Black and brown communities. Through our community engagement work, Policing Equity is focused on undoing the impact of White Supremacy and placing power in the hands of those most impacted by inequitable public safety systems.
We work collaboratively with vulnerable communities to provide partnerships, products, and services that support their advocacy efforts, reduce harm done to their communities, and empower them to redesign their public safety systems.
Using Science To Partner with Communities
The challenge of redesigning public safety systems can, at times, feel insurmountable, especially for communities traditionally left out of the conversation and with limited access to the data necessary to understand the disparities that affect them or the resources to realize change.
Policing Equity uses science – the throughline in all we do – to take bold action and foster community-led public safety redesign efforts. We use various peer-reviewed research and evaluation processes to analyze and support the development of new and refined approaches to policing, community health, and economic well-being.
This work is grounded in the science of public safety redesign, including research into and evaluation of the social determinants of community safety and health. All of our programs and initiatives center Black communities, and our products and resources are developed in such a way as to make the science of public safety redesign more transparent, accessible, and impactful.
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Community Up
Community Up is designed to support community members interested in building equitable public safety systems that can exist beyond the burden and trauma of racist policing. This program provides data-driven insights that make policing’s most persistent problems easy to see, equipping community members with resources to advance their grassroots public safety work. Community Up is both a program and a space through which activists and policymakers can ideate, support one another, and advance public safety research and policy.
UNLOCKING DEMOCRACY
Unlocking Democracy is a community empowerment program and the central hub for Policing Equity community-centered resources, initiatives, and interactive working groups. This program is designed to support stakeholders seeking to build more equitable public safety systems through various learning communities, adaptive community resource hubs, and more.
In partnership with The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, CPE hosts virtual learning communities under the Unlocking Democracy umbrella designed to assist interdisciplinary teams seeking to implement, sustain, and evaluate policing alternatives in their communities.
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