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Re-Imagining The Police

 

In this blog you can read 2 articles that discuss a reimaging of how police function in our communities and 1 on statistical disparities by race of police stops in California.

BART’s push to reinvent its police force: Doubling down on social workers, unarmed Ambassadors [mercurynews.com]

Growing staff of unarmed civilians will respond to drug, mental health problems

What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like [theappeal.org]

Because traffic stops all too often escalate into deadly incidents, calls have grown to disentangle traffic enforcement from police—and a measure to do so has already passed in Berkeley, California.

STATISTICS:

Examination Of 4 Million CA Police Stops From 2019: Black Civilians Searched At 2.5 Time The Rate Of White People [witnessla.com]

The latest annual report on racial and identity profiling based on stop and search data submitted to the California Department of Justice digs into continued disparities in law enforcement interactions with civilians, and offers recommendations for reducing bias in policing.

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