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Substance Use and Public Health: Solutions Beyond Policing

WEBThe opioid overdose epidemic has made clear that the criminal legal system is ill-equipped to deal with this public health issue. Over the past several decades of aggressive police force as the predominant response to drug use, illegal drug prices have declined, and the annual number of overdose deaths has risen fivefold since 1999.

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBThe Center for Policing Equity (CPE) announces the publication of Redesigning Public Safety: Mental Health Emergency Response.The second white paper in our ongoing Redesigning Public Safety Resource Series focuses on the imperative need to rethink our approach to mental health emergencies nationwide. The recommendations …

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBWhen driven by a desire for a more just and equitable world, we can prioritize the scientific advancements that make such a world more possible. At CPE, public safety is a matter of public health: to relieve suffering is the goal, and science is the means. In CPE's work, our values point to the questions we should ask, and science provides …

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Mental Health Emergency Response

WEBUse mental health co-response teams if a call cannot be diverted to community-based systems. These interdisciplinary teams typically include a mental health professional

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBThe National Juvenile Justice Network, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and MacArthur Foundation have partnered together to develop the Juvenile Justice Resource Hub, an online resource that provides information on key issues, resources, reform trends and experts in juvenile justice reform. Th

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBCPE and The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center are hosting a joint series of Learning Communities for Policing Alternatives with participants nationwide. These learning communities are designed to support stakeholders working to establish more equitable public safety systems and are structured to assist interdisciplinary teams …

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBJustin Feldman is a social epidemiologist who has studied policing since 2014. His work in both public health and public safety has examined the role that institutions play in exacerbating or ameliorating race and class inequalities. Prior to joining the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), Justin held positions as an assistant professor at New

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBC4J is a data-driven intervention process designed to help communities, government officials, and police departments co-create public safety systems that are healthier, safer, and more just, from the ground up. The C4J team works with police departments that express the desire to reduce racial disparities in their work, are willing to engage

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Re-imagining Public Safety: Prevent Harm and Lead with the …

WEB@JCollaboratory @PolicingEquity 3. Four principles should guide the development of a policy plan for policing in America. Safety . The central goal of the criminal justice system must be to increase cooperation and trust between

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A Progress Report on Redesigning Public Safety in St. Louis

WEBCPE just released its Redesigning Public Safety in the City of St. Louis: A Progress Report, a summation of the most recent stage of public safety redesign efforts in the City of St. Louis. In the report, we discuss the scope of work undertaken by CPE since our 2022 Reimagining Public Safety in the City of St. Louis: A Vision for Change report: …

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Redesigning Public Safety in the City of St. Louis

WEBCo-founded in 2008 by Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff and then Denver Police Department Division Chief, Dr. Tracie Keesee. Partners with cities to help them redesign public

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBJanuary 30 2019 Players Coalition Charitable Foundation Awards $350,000 Grant to the Center for Policing Equity

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBMAILING ADDRESS Center for Policing Equity 8605 Santa Monica Blvd PMB 54596 West Hollywood, CA 90069-4109

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Introducing ‘Aftershocks,’ Our Series About Life After a Shooting

WEBFrom the article: Congresswoman, policing expert advocate for non-police options for responding to mental health crises. In a New York Times op-ed, Democratic Representative Katie Porter, who introduced the Mental Health Justice Act in the House in February, and Philip Atiba Goff, co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, make the …

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Care Not Punishment: Redesigning Mental Health Emergency …

WEBMental health is a historically unrecognized and underinvested public health issue. Solutions to mental health crises have thus been equally underdeveloped, politically passed off to police officers who aren’t professionally equipped to handle them. This results in a criminalization of mental illness with outsize consequences: Nearly 37% of people in …

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Mental Health Emergency Response

WEBIt is estimated that 7% to 10%1 of all police encounters involve a person who has mental illness.* Most of these encounters do not involve any violence, and some don’t involve a crime at all.2 People with mental illness are no more likely than anyone else to act violently.3 Despite this, police arrest,4 injure,5 and kill6 people with mental illness at …

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Mental Health Alternative First Response

WEBAbout 988 Share this community roadmap and CPE’s Redesigning Public Safety: Mental Health Emergency Response white paper about the disparities in law enforcement contact with individuals experiencing mental health crises. Use this 988 Partner Toolkit to build awareness about 988 on social media and within your personal networks.

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Redesigning Public Safety in the City of St. Louis

WEBTogether, we assessed the city’s public safety systems, in order to develop evidence-based and community-led recommendations for meaningful and lasting redesign of those systems. Our recommendations were released publicly in April 2022 in Reimagining Public Safety in the City of St. Louis: A Vision for Change.

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Center for Policing Equity

WEBThe Center for Policing Equity (CPE) stands in solidarity with U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush and her colleagues as they reintroduce the People’s Response Act.According to their announcement, this groundbreaking legislation would advance an inclusive, holistic, and health-centered approach to public safety by creating a public …

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Austin Woman Told Police ‘Shoot Me, Kill Me.’ So They Did.

WEBAn Austin, Texas husband called police early Sunday morning to request help from a mental health officer. His wife was armed and acting erratic, he reported. But the mental health call turned deadly after the responding officers arrived on the scene. Read more here.

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