POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND

RACIAL JUSTICE: SUSTAINING A

MOVEMENT

EPIP Webinar

February 18th, 2015

EPIP Host: Michael Barham

Panelists: Joo-Hyun Kang, Jose Lopez, Monifa Bandele

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Panelists

• Monifa Bandele, leadership team, Malcolm X Grassroots

Movement

• Jose Lopez, Lead Organizer, Make the Road New York

• Joo-Hyun Kang, Director, Communities United for Police

Reform

Police Accountability & Racial Justice:

Sustaining A Movement

Reflections from NYCfor Feb 18, 2015 EPIP Webinar

Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)

▪ Context: Local NYC Historical Background

▪ About CPR: Goals, Strategies, Accomplishments

▪ Floyd federal stop-and-frisk

▪ Other litigation

▪ Priorities, Next Phase

Historical Context for NYC

▪ Mid 1990s Giuliani era and rise of discriminatory “broken-windows” “zero-tolerance” “quality of life” policing + no accountability for killings of young men of color

▪ NYC police accountability history rooted in police brutality - Grassroots leadership, mobilization & families of those killed and brutalized by NYPD

▪ NYPD killings = “tip of iceberg”

“Stop-and-frisk” & discriminatory policing =

Civil & Human Rights Crisis

In 2011:• 87% Black or Latina/o• 88% no arrests or summons• Weapons found in <2% of stops• More stops of young Black men than young

Black men residing in NYC• 685,724 stops

Need for coordination

▪ Coordination of strategies and action

▪ Coordination across sectors

▪ With leadership from directly affected communities

▪ Leveraging political context & opportunities (e.g. 2013 citywide elections)

CPR Campaign Purpose

Overall purpose▪ End discriminatory and abusive policing

in NYC (incl stop-and-frisk abuses and broken-windows style policing)

▪ Promote community safety in dignified manner that upholds human & constitutional rights

CPR Campaign Goals

By 2018:▪ Decrease discriminatory & abusive

encounters by NYPD

▪ Build capacity of affected communities

▪ Build public & political will to enact & sustain change

CPR Accomplishments since 2012 incl

▪ Changed public discourse

▪ Documented decrease in stops (but stop-and-frisk isn’t over)

▪ Culture change

▪ Secured initial policy reform victories

▪ Building community-based leadership/infrastructure

▪ Coordinated multi-sector strategy

Current National Context: Systemic lack of accountability & devaluing of Black & Brown lives

ERIC GARNER MICHAEL BROWN

Just since last summer those killed include: John Crawford, Ezell Ford, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, Jessie Hernandez, Antonio Zambrano-Montes and too many more.

Current Context: protest, movement, change

▪ Ferguson

▪ Ferguson, Beavercreek, NYC (After non-indictments in killings of Mike Brown, John Crawford, Eric Garner)

▪ Racial justice & police accountability demands

Current Context: Opportunities

National awareness & mass movement building

• Connections to workers, immigrants, women, LGBT & other movements

• Leadership is abundant, grassroots and everywhere – including youth leadership

• Growing public acknowledgement of problem with policing & lack of accountability of police

Challenges include

▪ Organized & well-resourced opposition

▪ False dichotomy of “civil rights” vs. “public safety”

▪ Misperceptions (e.g. in NYC “stop-and-frisk era is over”)

▪ Capacity limitations + few philanthropic resources for police accountability work

▪ Long-term, multi-pronged problem requires committed long-term work/solution

What NYC example helps illustrate

▪ Policing won’t be fixed by decreasing 1 discriminatory tactics

▪ Coordination across sectors is critical; support of grassroots is key

▪ Philanthropic support of coalitions led by grassroots can be successful

▪ Long-term problem requires multi-year vision and strategy

Steps funders can take

▪ Know/learn about the history of the racial justice & police accountability work in your area

▪ Support through racial justice, youth organizing, immigrant rights, LGBT, gender justice and other portfolios

▪ Consider multi-year general support

▪ Help to promote the community organizing work of grassroots organizations led by communities of color