THE INITIATIVE Partners with Police Chiefs & Community Based Organizations to Launch Groundbreaking Community Policing Technology
CENTRAL™ is a new tool that measures the effectiveness of community-oriented policing to build trust between communities and police forces
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THE INITIATIVE ), an organization devoted to systemic change, has partnered with progressive Police Chiefs and Community Based Organizations to launch CENTRAL, a new technology platform designed to give police agencies the ability to use data and analytics to track the effectiveness of their community policing efforts. CENTRAL is designed to foster trust between police forces and the communities they serve.
Senator Gray-Jackson Introduces Police Reform Legislation Senator Gray-Jackson Introduces Police Reform Legislation
ANCHORAGE – With the recent killings of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Tony McDade (and so many others), the nation has drawn even greater attention to the use of police force, particularly within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Last week, Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson (D-Anchorage) pre-filed legislation to address this issue. Senator Gray-Jackson worked with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Anchorage Police Department Employees Association, Anchorage Police Department, and the Public Safety Employees Association to craft the legislation.
The package, known as Turning Pain Into Progress (TPIP), has six components that were derived from the original 8 Can’t Wait national initiative:
The September issue of the Fraternal Order of Police Journal featured the president on its cover. The FOP endorsed both of Trump s presidential campaigns. Credit: fop.net/Screenshot by NPR
U.S. Capitol Mob Brings Questions, Fallout For Pro-Trump Police By
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In the aftermath of Wednesday s siege of the U.S. Capitol, attention is turning to the nation s police: How many sympathized with what happened?
The head of the Chicago police union minimized the severity of the riot, while his counterpart in Seattle repeated unfounded claims that the far left shared responsibility.
Around the country, police departments are following up on reports of off-duty officers spotted in Washington. The Seattle Police Department has put two officers on paid leave, as their participation is investigated.
In the aftermath of Wednesday s siege of the U.S. Capitol, attention is turning to the nation s police: How many sympathized with what happened?
Around the country, police departments are following up on reports of off-duty officers spotted in Washington, D.C. The Seattle Police Department has put two officers on paid leave as their presence in D.C. is investigated. Officers, like anyone else, should be allowed to and
areallowed to attend rallies, says Andrew Myerberg, director of the department s Office of Police Accountability. The question with the rally here, though, is did it go over the line of just being a political rally, to supporting insurrection or supporting a violation of the U.S. Constitution or the laws of a jurisdiction? Myerberg asks.
Racial justice leaders are reeling from the ‘hypocrisy’ in the police response to the US Capitol riots
After police forced her away from the White House with flash bangs and pepper spray, Allison Lane and dozens of people who were peacefully protesting George Floyd’s killing last summer ran into a stranger’s home to escape the clouds of tear gas.
“I was pepper sprayed for being Black and protesting,” the 34-year-old bartender and podcaster recalled.
Lane’s chaotic night in the nation’s capital last June has since been replicated numerous times from coast to coast. It was a wave of interactions, racial justice activists say, that underscored a form of systemic racism that’s deeply tied to one of the country’s most powerful institutions: police forces.