Reimagining public safety requires being informed by the communities affected by police violence, write & team.
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Susan Rosa
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criminologist & victimologist
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Recognizing and acknowledging that police perpetrate violence—and that this violence disproportionately affects Black and brown Americans—is a first step toward change in policy, budgets, and community safety decisionmaking.
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Are you a nonprofit doing front-end criminal justice reform work? & are funding our next round of Catalyst Grantees! Check out the full Request for Proposals and apply now!➡️urbn.is/3GeDhsV
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Dear Nonprofit Industrial Complex: If you’re not saying&doing things that could get you fired/make ppl angry/uncomfortable You’re enabling a system of oppression. There is no nice or polite way to dismantle systems&be anti-racist. Be unapologetically for justice&liberation.
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And check out our blog reflecting on how community organizations can use data & tech as a powerful tool to support their work in tackling racial injustice and advancing justice reform
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Thrilled to announce the Catalyst Grant Program in collaboration with ’s Justice Reform Initiative! will support 9 organizations using data & tech to advance local justice reform efforts & decrease racial & ethnic disparities. urbn.is/catalyst
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Researchers must approach their work with an understanding of how racist policies & implicit biases interact within and throughout different aspects of the criminal legal system, write ’s & .
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Evan Douglas, a fellow & former patrol officer with the , describes the very reason why we need to #EndQualifiedImmunity in this important op-ed from :
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"Definitions of criminality and criminal activity are rooted in structural inequalities between people of color and white people, and racist policies and practices have been used to control and separate communities of color."
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Traffic stops result in neither increased trust in the police nor increased perceptions of safety among community members
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To improve IPV response, states & localities should:
• Get clear commitment from leaders to prioritize IPV response
• Prioritize people’s experience over case outcomes
• Create a process to learn from past mistakes urbn.is/35HJKfc
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Centering the voices of community members, particularly Black and Latinx people, can generate more equitable public safety reallocation efforts. Read mine & 's testimony for DC Council's & budget hearing today:
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VA's abolition of the death penalty is a significant & historic step toward reducing harms caused by the justice system & stakeholders should pay critical attention to which systems they propose to replace it. New post by , , & me:
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From & : “Traffic stops are the most common form of police-citizen interaction, but for many citizens, they are also the most dangerous.”
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Excited to see this coverage of 's and my recent article on removing police from traffic enforcement in
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Eliminate Police Role in Traffic Stops: Report @urbaninstitute thecrimereport.org/2021/04/27/eli via @thecrimereport
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Deeply entrenched racial disparities in traffic enforcement & the continued killing of Black drivers show that regardless of intentions, the harms of traffic stops far outweigh any potential public safety benefits, 's
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“It was about the idea of being able to bring these people up here and possibly have them join the Union Army or provide work as part of the war effort.”
in case you ever thought it was about human decency #EmancipationDay
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Chicago police killed a 7th grader with his hands in the air but y’all want police in schools? Y’all think kids feel safe? Y’all don’t understand what defund means? I’m not trying to hear no more excuses, we not safe with CPD in our streets.
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What if people who served jail time for marijuana became the biggest players in DC’s marijuana industry? I have a bill to do that. Before DC opens up new marijuana center licenses, I want to change the law to give returning citizens a big advantage. The vote in my bill is Tuesday
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Partial decriminalization is still criminalization and it endangers sex workers. Learn more from , , and me here:
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don't even get me started on the nonsense that is GRU
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For @theappeal, a Metropolitan Police Department veteran of nearly 30 years spoke to me about the problems with DC cops—especially the Gun Recovery Unit theappeal.org/dc-gru/
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From Emmett Till to Daunte Wright, the eerie ties among Black victims of violence
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So you may be asking yourself what the heck is a union and why should I support ? I'm here with an answer! A union is a collective of workers who have legal power to negotiate over their terms of employment! Workers make the world turn and our voices/needs matter
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No taxation without representation? A House committee is set to vote on D.C. statehood, a once-fringe issue that is now central to Democrats
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Congrats to our colleagues at and !
We hope and voluntarily recognize now and refuse to deploy the same delay tactics used by ACLU management.
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Don’t miss the point about Black organizing and labor movements. African American auto workers formed unions and what would ultimately become political organizations because they were both harmed & exploited by employers and locked out of full participation in white-led unions.
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Breaking: The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union says a supermajority of the staff at Brookings & the Urban Institute have formed a union & have called on their institutions 1) not to fight the union drive & 2) to grant voluntary union recognition
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Good morning! We just informed our management that a supermajority of eligible staff have formed the Urban Institute Employees Union, organized with the . Read our press release here:
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Solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama. Keep fighting.
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BREAKING: @RWDSU says that Amazon illegally interfered in the #BAmazonUnion vote in Bessemer, and the union will be filing unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB.
“We won’t rest until workers' voices are heard fairly under the law.” - @sappelbaum
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The University of Maryland wind tunnel is actually just the campus. #umdproblems
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