Our Demands

1) Safety
2) Accountability
3) Community

1) SAFETY: Police Safely to Preserves Lives

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Illegalize head and neck maneuvers

- Goal: Save lives

- Plan: Fire, Arrest, Charge, Independently Prosecute Violating Officers

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Prioritize maintenance of life of people in police custody

- Goal: Bring people to the justice system; Don't be the justice system.

- Plan: Fire, Arrest, Charge, Independently Prosecute Violating Officers

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Reward Safe Policing Practices

- Goal: Incentivize officers to avoid use of excessive force

- Plan: Provide tiered, quarterly, monetary bonuses and recognition to officers who avoid excessive force

• Excessive force complaint discrepancies will be determined by a Police Action Review Board composed of citizens and police

Require bi-annual, in-person, Inherent Bias Training

- Goal: Recognize and counteract prejudicial police practices 

- Plan: Train officers to combat their tendencies toward bias

• Require remediation if assessments are failed

Require Five, Annual, Weaponless Shifts in Urban Emergency Department Psychiatric Units

- Goal: to hone non-Violent situation de-escalation skills

- Plan: partner with healthcare professionals to adapt proven, non-violent, weapon-free, de-escalation techniques

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2) ACCOUNTABILITY: Holding Officers Responsible Decreases Dangerous Practices 

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Mandate that all officers wear functioning body cameras while on-duty

- Goal: Record un-editable police-citizen interactions as objective evidence of occurrences

- Plan: Record video and audio of all communications and contact with citizens from start of dispatch or patrol incident to citizen release or hand-off in police headquarters

• Mandate that unedited body camera footage be released to the family of those involved in police incidents within 48 hours of request.

Install local Police Action Review Boards

- Goal: Provide community oversight of controversial police actions

- Plan: Install a non-partisan, multi cultural, police and citizen-based Police Action Review Board to review controversial cases and provide decisive guidelines to police departments that must be followed

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Enact Effective Federal Legislation

- Goal: Standardize national policies to keep citizens and police safe

- Plan: Enact federal legislation that mandates oversight of and accountability for safe, non-discriminatory tactics of local police departments.

• The President's 21st Century Policing Task Force has already done this. It simply needs to be enacted and enforced nation wide. 

3) COMMUNITY: Develop Strong Community Ties to Humanize Officers & Citizens

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Incentivize Community Policing

- Goal: Instill a sense of comfort, pride and duty to community 

- Plan: Enact targeted measures (below) to positively integrate police officers into the fiber of the community they police

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Provide housing discounts and tax breaks to officers who live in the neighborhood they police

- Goal: Instill a sense of comfort, pride and community-duty in police officers

- Plan: Create local, state and federal programs granting officers monetary incentives to live full-time in the communities they police

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Mandate that at least 20% of officers live within the community they police

- Goal: Instill a sense of comfort, pride and community-duty in police officers

- Plan: Create local, state and federal programs granting officers monetary incentives to live full-time in the communities they police

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Provide police department employment and training to promising, underrepresented minority, community youths

- Goal: ​Build upon strong community ties to improve policing while providing career-building opportunities

- Plan: Utilize grants for police academy scholarships, internships and summer jobs for underrepresented minorities

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Facilitate bonding opportunities between police officers and minorities in the communities they police

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- Goal: Build relationships and mutual trust

​- Plan: Require a variety of impactful, regularly-scheduled community outreach events

• It's hard to use deadly force on someone after you've done this, this, this or even this with them​

• Coordinate monthly neighborhood lunch events at neutral venues with police and the community

• Institute twice yearly in-home family dinners with pre-approved, underrepresented minority families living within the officer's jurisdiction