For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
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8. Establish non-police alternatives to 911 calls involving people with mental illness. For example, 1 in 5 of the 911 calls in Eugene, OR are diverted to mental health first responders instead of police to respond. A success being scaled in Portland.https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-mental-health-experts-not-police-are-the-first-responders-1543071600 …
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9. Resource the Department of Justice (after the current president is voted out) to initiate more investigations of police departments. Departments that receive federal intervention have 25-30% fewer police shootings than those that do not. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kznagw/jeff-sessions-is-walking-away-from-the-best-way-to-reduce-police-shootings …pic.twitter.com/6JSyBjPvxd
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10. Know change is not only possible, it’s already happened in some places. Oakland police shot 8 people on avg each year 5 yrs ago and, after these interventions were implemented, they had 0 shootings this yr, 1 last yr (the officers were fired) and 0 the yr before. Lives saved.
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11. Finally, we’ve catalogued an extensive range of research studies and other information detailing potential solutions to police violence at http://joincampaignzero.org/research
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12. And if you don’t have time to read the research right now, we’ve presented most of this research in rapid succession in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niaq51Z2Uw …
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In order to establish these findings we had to: 1. Build the most comprehensive database of police violence in the US 2. Conduct analyses of police use of force policies and union contracts in the 100 largest US cities 3. Track every state policing bill passed in the past 5 years
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4. Track every research study published on the subject over the past five years and evaluate for quality 5. Meticulously catalogue the findings so they can be broadly accessible And all that with little to no funding. Next up: evaluating the 1,000 largest police depts in the US.
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Here’s the evaluation of over 16,000 US police and sheriffs’ departments nationwide:http://policescorecard.org
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Given the current admin has been quite successful by comparison in CJ reform, waiting for the next administration to do that is both foolish and a petty partisan point in an otherwise interesting thread. 2 cents.
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Bill Barr ordered peaceful protesters and priests to be tear gassed in front of St. John's so Trump could have his photo op, wherein he announced he'd be using the military against American citizens. Maybe that has something to do with waiting for the next administration.
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Obama-era US DoJ Office of Justice Programs had money for community-based effort: “methodical diagnostic approach." NTAAC partners, with performance measures, logic models. Holder's Task Force created academic think tanks. Scholars available. http://consulthardesty.hardspace.info/call-to-action/data …
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Obama also used the DOJ and IRS to strong arm any opposition to his ideologies. Used FBI for political spying and targeted reporters. To make a great thread political when Trump has actually done more in 4yrs to help minorities than a minority prez did in 8, ruins your thread.
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