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Caroline Morse
“Dayton Unit NAACP Advocates for ‘Community Centered Policing: A Force for Change’ Initiative”
04/26/21
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
Report of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force
March, 2021
Also available here
Breane Lyga
“Community Empowered Policing Takes Center Stage at Rockford NAACP MLK Day Roundtable,”
01/18/2021
Sam Stecklow (Invisible Institute)
“Illinois Criminal Justice Overhaul Makes it Easier to Decertify Bad Cops. But it Could be Harder for the Public to Learn About Them.”
01/13/21
Hannah Edelman
“Families impacted by police shootings call for social justice, transparency in Wilmington”
11/14/21
Venice Interfaith Community Association
"Decarceration Through a Community-Oriented Criminal Justice System"
02/10/20
WWMT News Channel 3
"Commissioners support Kalamazoo County arrest database despite prosecutor pushback"
11/18/21
23 WIFR
“Safe-T Act: its explanation and when it could go into effect"
10/15/21
13 WREX
"City leaders host Racial Healing session to urge collaboration on the implementation of the SAFE-T Act"
10/14/21
WZZM News Channel 13
"NAACP and Grand Rapids working together to change police surveillance technology rules"
12/14/21
Seton Hall University
“Law Enforcement and Community Empowerment for Safer Communities”
11/22/21
Fox 17 West Michigan
"Grand Rapids looks to make 'needed' change to city's surveillance policy"
12/14/21
WoodTV Virtual Channel 8
"GR officials, NAACP announce recommended surveillance changes"
12/14/21
Publications
"Accountability through decertification of Police who engage in misconduct."
Check out the latest published piece by Carlton Mayers II, Esq. in the SDIG's Global Diversity & Inclusion Journal. (Pages 53-57)
“The Danger of Surveillance Technology to Communities of Color Needs to Be Closely Examined”
The Grand Rapids Times (July 2nd, 2021)
"End qualified immunity for police officers to combat abuses"
Carlton T. Mayers, ll, Esq. and former law enforcement officer Sonia Pruitt convey the importance of ending qualified immunity so that law enforcement officers who abuse their position can be held accountable for their actions.