HEALTH & SAFETY
Police & Criminal Justice Reform
The training and equipping of police over the past two decades has seen the growing militarization of the police, and growth in the adoption of a soldier’s “us versus them” mentality. This is wrong and dangerous. President Obama’s “Task Force on 21st Century Policing” provides a sound plan going forward, calling for the transformation of police culture from its current predominant view of “police as warriors” to “police as guardians,” while emphasizing the critical police-community link and the cultivation of mutual respect and trust.
Learn More:
Read President Obama’s “Task Force on 21st Century Policing” report: https://noblenational.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/President-Barack-Obama-Task-Force-on-21st-Century-Policing-Implementation-Guide.pdf
Here is a plea for decriminalizing our society and putting public safety as the priority in guiding policing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3564469#:~:text=It%20proposes%20a%20totally%20novel,safety%20from%20the%20ground%20up.
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