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Importantly, these policy changes would lead to changes in police culture, where a militarized “warrior” mentality has encouraged a destructive authoritarian approach to policing.

Detailed recommendations in each of these areas are drawn from expert interviews, empirical research, and case studies. The resulting blueprint, “ All Safe: Transforming Public Safety ,” identifies four key areas for policy actions: 1) restructure public safety systems by creating a division of alternative unarmed responders 2) hold bad officers accountable 3) establish reliable processes to permanently remove officers who are unfit for duty and 4) recruit better officers who do not display authoritarian behaviors and values. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd, I commissioned a group of the finest minds in criminology, law enforcement, public service, and community safety to create a comprehensive approach to end police violence. I’ve been a part of some hard-won successes, from abolishing the death penalty for juveniles in multiple states to ending the racial profiling policies known as stop-and-frisk in New York City. I have devoted much of my life to fighting injustice in our broken criminal justice system. What happened to police reform in Pa.? | Monday Morning Coffee In fact, the opposite is true.Įmbracing a community-oriented public safety approach is the only way to make all our communities safer, because it allows police to focus on the serious crime-fighting work they are meant to do while diverting low-level concerns that come before them to unarmed responders, which immediately decreases the risk of violence.Ī Philly cop killed a 12-year-old. How do we stop senseless police killings while making our communities safer for everyone?įirst, we must overcome the myth that police accountability is somehow an obstacle to effective crime prevention. Whether the officer pulled Castile over for a broken taillight or racially profiled him for what one officer called his “wide set nose,” his stop set up the kind of deadly confrontation that should never have happened in the first place, one that could be prevented with systemic and cultural changes that enhance public safety for everyone, including officers.

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While the full picture of that shooting is still emerging as I write this, one thing is clear: Six years and too many horrifying police killings after Castile’s unjustifiable killing, policymakers have yet to embrace a full transformation in public safety that we need to make all our communities safer and more just.įortunately, a new road map has just been released to guide the path forward Paul, Minn., school cafeteria worker Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer during an otherwise routine traffic stop, Jayland Walker died in a hail of bullets fired by police officers in Akron, Ohio.

Nearly six years to the day after beloved St.