{"id":5996,"date":"2020-07-01T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cahro.org\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2020-07-01T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:02:07","slug":"la-county-commission-on-human-relations-releases-redefining-policing-with-our-community-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/07\/01\/la-county-commission-on-human-relations-releases-redefining-policing-with-our-community-report\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County Commission on Human Relations releases \u201cRedefining Policing with Our Community\u201d Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations has released \u201cRedefining Policing with Our Community,\u201d an extensive report on policing and human relations in LA County with 34 recommendations for change. It seeks to \u201cbuild a new normal that prioritizes human dignity and repairs the damage done by discriminatory policies and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Policing and Human Relations project was launched in 2015 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion. The report was developed after conducting seven public hearings across each of the five LA County Superviso- rial Districts. The process included 42 stakeholder feedback sessions; targeted meetings with women of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, more than 50 community-based organizations, County residents, and advocates. The Human Relations Commission also convened meetings with the LA County Sheriff\u2019s Department, the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment, and other city-based police departments throughout the County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRedefining Policing with Our Community\u201d may be downloaded by clicking here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo assess policing in LA County 50 years after the Watts Rebellion was an ambitious undertaking,\u201d stated Commissioner Isabelle Gunning, chair of the Commission\u2019s Committee on Policing and Human Relations, which led the development of this report. \u201cThrough this Report, our hope is to bring about systemic and cultural changes in policing that will honor George Floyd and the many others whose lives have been lost or damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Informed by community and key stakeholder perspectives, \u201cRedefining Policing with Our Community\u201d focuses on the pri-mary intercept points of the criminal justice system: prevention, community intervention, and law enforcement response.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which reflects the experiences and reform priorities of key stakeholders and County residents, is centered on nine broad strategic aims, which include: increasing transparency and accountability, revising use-of-force policies, ending overpolicing and underprotection of vulnerable communities and enhancing community-based alternatives to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s 34 recommendations advance action-oriented solutions that reflect broad community agreement, including the reallocation of resources for economic investments to improve and expand social safety nets, alleviating militarized community occupation, and the utilization of a culturally competent justice framework.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the 34 recommendations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing federal and state laws, in addition to local law enforcement policies, to end qualified immunity, and provide public access to information about police officers involved in both complaint and misconduct investigations, includ- ing their prior history and the results of those investigations;<\/li>\n<li>Significantly increase funding, including the reallocation of law enforcement budgets, for non-law enforcement community-based initiatives, such as: drop-in and sobering centers, and community response teams that proactively address core issues of poverty, education, health, safety, and youth development programs;<\/li>\n<li>Assign use-of-force investigations to independent special prosecutors housed outside of law enforcement agencies and the district attorney\u2019s office; and<\/li>\n<li>Require deeper analysis and more frequent dissemination of data collected through the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) to eliminate anti-Black racism, bias, and discrimination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is unconscionable that our communities of color are treated differently on account of race and ethnicity, and this plays out every day in their interactions with our criminal justice system. We need to push for true police accountability and denounce police brutality and harassment,\u201d said Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis. \u201cOur black and brown families should not live in fear of being racially profiled when they go out for a walk or a jog in our neighborhoods. We must take bold action to redefine public safety and ensure that the criminal justice system works for all of us, regardless of race. Now is the time to dismantle institutional racism and put an end to systemic inequities that are jeopardizing the lives of so many innocent individuals within our black and brown communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent events have provoked a conversation about how we expand alternatives to law enforcement and how we con-tinue along the continuum of reimagining public safety,\u201d said Supervisor Ridley-Thomas. \u201cMany of the recommendations laid out in this report are yet another opportunity for the County to invest in change that is systematic, lasting, and that gets to the root of the issue rather than skimming the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report is one more call to action at a critical moment in the County\u2019s rethinking of our justice system,\u201d said Supervi- sor Sheila Kuehl. \u201cMany of the recommendations echo guidance offered to the Supervisors in the Alternatives to Incar- ceration \u201cCare First, Jail Last\u201d report last March. What we need to do to improve community health and safety is clear. Now it\u2019s time to move forward quickly to implement these reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report provides an important perspective emerging from the Commission\u2019s extensive engagement with community and law enforcement,\u201d said Connie Rice, renowned civil rights attorney and member of President Obama\u2019s taskforce on 21st Century Policing. \u201cIt calls for changes that can move us forward on the urgent transformation in the culture and mission of policing that we so desperately need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing transcripts, stakeholder feedback, and other supplemental materials collected as part of this report are available for review on the Commission on Human Relations\u2019 website at hrc.lacounty.gov.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations\u2019 mission is to transform prejudice into acceptance, inequity into justice, and hostility into peace. It is dedicated to promoting positive human relations on a foundation of protection for human rights in an increasingly complex and multicultural county. The Commission works to develop programs that proactively address racism, homophobia, religious prejudice, linguistic bias, anti-immigrant sentiment, and other divisive attitudes that can lead to intercultural tension, hate crimes, and related violence. Partnering with schools, cities, commu-nity-based organizations, youth, academics, policy makers, businesses, law enforcement, and other leaders, the Commis-sion brings key players together to resolve immediate intercultural conflicts and to work toward the longer term aim of eradicating bias and prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The report can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/hrc.lacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Redefining-Policing-With-Our-Community.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahro.org\/2020\/07\/la-county-commission-on-human-relations-releases-redefining-policing-with-our-community-report\/\">CAHRO Blog \u2013 CAHRO \u2013 California Association of Human Relations Organizations<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations has released \u201cRedefining Policing with Our Community,\u201d an extensive report on policing and human relations in LA County with 34 recommendations for change. 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