Coalition connecting USC students, faculty, staff, and community organizations in an effort to abolish policing & reimagine public safety at and around USC.
As activists have long said—What if we sent mental health crisis responders and social workers armed with empathy instead of officers armed with sidearms?
#ReimaginePublicSafety
Join me 6:45pm Fri evening on the Square at this vigil hosted by the family of Darius Tarver, 2 yrs after his totally preventable & indefensible murder by Denton police while experiencing a mental health crisis.
Never forget #DariusTarver#BlackLivesMatter#ReimaginePublicSafety
JB: Thing Big!
Us: So we want the first ever Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, a quarter billion dollar investment in IL’s most violent communities and to make IL the first state to allow Medicaid to cover trauma recovery services…
JB: Say less ✍️#reimaginepublicsafety
In communities across Chicago and across the country, I always wonder: what if we had fewer police, and more street outreach workers, counselors, mentors, after school activities and summer enrichment programs?
#reimaginepublicsafety
with our demands: cancel rent, defund LAPD, rescind endorsement of Jackie Lacey, feds out of LA, no new money for policing. #carenotcops#ReimaginePublicSafety
As we #ReimaginePublicSafety, we must reckon with how pretrial detention drives the cycle of violence. In June, we witnessed the Court utilizing “No Bond Allowed” at an alarming rate. 64% of people in June had no option to get out at all.
No safe spaces for cops! Find the sheriff in WeHo tonight at 6pm, make sure he hears "public safety concerns" about the sheriff gangs murdering people in our communities! The cops themselves are a public safety concern. #ReimaginePublicSafety#VillanuevaMustGo
My gender is accurate on my license.
I can’t begin to describe the depth of that impact..Being included and considered in any documentation, let alone gov documentation, shouldn’t be a privilege. Visibility IS mental health, and mental health IS justice. #ReimaginePublicSafety
REPORT: A total of 376 officers responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting and that the failure of police to go into the classroom while a gunman killed children inside was the result of “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making.” https://cbsn.ws/3ocIbzs
DPD "thought there was the potential of a medical issue going on"w/James Anthony Senase. So they spent 1 hr arresting him instead of calling medics in to save his life?
DPD's plan was"to take this person into custody & find out what was going on.”
He died.
#ReimaginePublicSafety
A 38-year-old man died following a medical emergency while in Denton police custody Wednesday, Chief Frank Dixon said. https://dentonrc.com/news/crime/man-dies-from-medical-issue-while-in-police-custody-wednesday/article_60486b2b-f9e3-50a6-a6b9-34e8ab8dea21.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social…
Save the date! We will be gathering on Aug. 2nd at Woodly Park in Van Nuys 4-7p. Good people, great coversations, Kids corner and Free food . See you there!
Events happening in a few cities in the US. Look Up an event near you: https://nosl.us/events22#NOSL22#SFV#CA29
"In 2020, 626 deaths caused by police were traffic stops, responses to mental health crises, or other situations that can and should have been handled differently,” said DeRay McKesson another founder.
#AnotherWorldIsPossible#ReimaginePublicSafety
Campaign Zero report finds that 2020 was 2nd deadliest year of police violence https://thegrio.com/2021/03/18/2020-deadliest-year-police-violence-campaign-zero-report/…
's Justice Reforms. We must shift from the decades long tough on crime approach that has made LA the capital of human caging in this state and home to the largest jail system in this country! #reimaginepublicsafety
treated this family like this, even after #ElijahMcClain, is further proof that the Aurora PD requires an aggressive overhaul and intervention from external experts on community and nonviolence. And #ReimaginePublicSafety.