Webinar Recap: Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement Wednesday

1. 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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• Historical context, current context and their work
• Moderated Q & A followed by questions from the
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7. 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

8. Police Accountability
& Racial Justice:
Sustaining A Movement
Reflections from NYC
for Feb 18, 2015 EPIP Webinar

9. 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

10. 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”

11. “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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. CPR Campaign Goals
By 2018:
▪ Decrease discriminatory & abusive
encounters by NYPD
▪ Build capacity of affected communities
▪ Build public & political will to enact &
sustain change

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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