Tag: Police Community Relationships

Police-Community Relations in Baltimore – The Abell Foundation

2 reports available at the bottom of the webpage.

Part 1- What Can Be Done To Improve Police- Community Relations In Baltimore? Exploring the experiences and perspectives of Black residents

Part 2- Improving Baltimore Police Relations With the City’s Black Community: Alternate response to non-criminal emergency calls for service

Police-Community Relations in Baltimore – The Abell Foundation
— Read on abell.org/publication/police-community-relations-in-baltimore/

Do digital technologies reduce racially biased reporting? Evidence from NYPD administrative data | PNAS

Recent work has emphasized the disproportionate bias faced by minorities when interacting with law enforcement. However, research on the topic has been hampered by biased sampling in administrative data, namely that records of police interactions with citizens only reflect information on the civilians that police elect to investigate, and not civilians that police observe but do not investigate. In this work, we address a related bias in administrative police data which has received less empirical attention, namely reporting biases around investigations that have taken place. Further, we investigate whether digital monitoring tools help mitigate this reporting bias. To do so, we examine changes in reports of interactions between law enforcement and citizens in the wake of the New York City Police Department’s replacement of analog memo books with mobile smartphones. Results from a staggered difference in differences estimation indicate a significant increase in reports of citizen stops once the new smartphones are deployed.
— Read on www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402375121

Distrust of police persists. This Georgia city may have a solution. – CSMonitor.com

Note: This is behind a paywall but the magazine allows 3 articles a month.

It could have all ended very badly.

After a LaGrange resident’s car was repossessed, the man’s entire family – his son, his son’s fiancée, and their baby – engaged in a high-speed chase through downtown LaGrange, with the family using another car to chase the person who repossessed their car, weaving through traffic at high speed.  

When police finally stopped the cars, emotions ran high. Their faces deep in concern, the LaGrange Police Department officers talked calmly with all involved until passions subsided.
— Read on www.csmonitor.com/USA/2024/0529/police-violence-distrust-cops-safety

Banning most low level traffic stops would deliver benefits to people, police and communities • Minnesota Reformer

Imagine a law that could make Minnesota’s roadways safer, reduce the number of dangerous interactions between the public and police, and help understaffed police departments. 

It seems too good to be true — but it’s not. 

In fact, a bill to do all of those things — by limiting when police can make traffic stops for low-level offenses — was introduced earlier this year by Rep. Cedrick Frazier, DFL-New Hope.

But the Legislature didn’t pass that bill, just like it didn’t pass similar bills in 2023, 2022 and 2021. Each delay has denied Minnesotans the benefits of safer roadways and communities.
— Read on minnesotareformer.com/2024/05/30/banning-most-low-level-traffic-stops-would-deliver-benefits-to-people-police-and-communities/

The Cost of Police Violence and Mayhem – A Report on Police Misconduct During the George Floyd Protests

Four years ago, on May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. We already had a too-long list of black men and women killed by police, and the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s throat for nine minutes, assisted by 3 other cops, spurred a mass protest movement into action.

The movement against the long and brutal history of police murdering Black men crystallized under the banner of Black Lives Matter (BLM) in 2013 after the acquittal of the man who killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin.1 The movement grew, forcing us to pay attention as police killed Black men and women with impunity. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner uttered his last words, “I can’t breathe,” over and over 17 times to an NYPD cop who continued to choke him. Less than a month later, Ferguson cop Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown. And police kept killing Black people in other towns and cities all across America. We said their names and held them in our hearts: Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, Breonna Taylor. And so many more, their glaring absence felt by their communities.
— Read on drive.google.com/file/d/12OOPD54mQSsCBanMomfHIN_tkumtm4IR/view