In June 2020, Colorado’s legislature passed sweeping police reforms in the aftermath of nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. SB20-217, which NACDL supported along with a large, diverse coalition of organizations, enacts several provisions to prevent excessive force by the police and increase transparency and accountability. Key provisions include: ending qualified immunity; mandating body cameras by 2023 and making video of police misconduct publicly available; requiring data collection and public reporting on policing; limiting use of deadly force by officers, requiring officers to intervene to stop deadly force; decertifying officers who use deadly force or other misconduct; creating a database to prevent rehiring of officers engaged in misconduct; and protecting protestors from police use of tear gas and projectiles.
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Disrupting Minority Report: How to Push Back on the Use of Predictive Analytics in Policing
Recently, NACDL published a report titled Garbage In, Gospel Out: How Data-Driven Policing Technologies Entrench Historic Racism and ‘Tech-wash’ Bias in the Criminal Legal System which laid out the historic biases that these systems exploit and recommends that the systems not be used. On this panel you will hear from experts who shared their experience in Chicago and Los Angeles with the NACDL Task Force on Predictive Policing and how they have pushed back.
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Over the past year, amid continued police violence and the killing of unarmed black men and women, we have seen renewed calls for racial justice and systemic police reform. According to the National Conference on State Legislatures, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have introduced legislation to reform some aspect of policing. Common reforms have included addressing issues around accountability and oversight, limiting the use of neck restraints and no-knock warrants, instituting use of force standards, requiring a duty to intervene, mandating data collection around police interactions, requiring increased use of police body cameras and more. But are these reforms enough? And how can we limit police interactions? Police retain enormous discretion in determining where to patrol, who to stop, and who to arrest for minor offenses like loitering, jaywalking, littering,disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace. Criminalizing minor offenses needlessly exposes individuals to police interaction, which can often function as a gateway to police violence.
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Policing in America: Policing the Police
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19th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference
August 17-19, 2020 | Held VirtuallyModerator: Norman Reimer, Executive Director, NACDL
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Rebecca Brown, Policy Director, Innocence Project
