Our Monthly dinner conversation with residents and partners to discuss the current progression in Baltimore’s efforts to re-imagine Public Safety and ensure the voice of those directly impacted are elevated and considered as an influence on issues concerning our commUNITY
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Police Accountability Board June 29, 2022
In 2021 Maryland, the first state to institute a Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights reversed that ill-informed precedent by becoming the first state to repeal it, opening the door to re-imagine police oversight and accountability, the PAB.
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the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division May 25, 2022
It was in this hall (St. Peter Claver) in 2016 that over 100 residents sat down with the Department of Justice and formalized their demands on how residents should be treated by the officers sworn to protect them. That document, The Peoples Decree of Central West Baltimore, was the foundation of the Consent Decree signed in April of 2017.
For the first time since that day the D.O.J. is returning to discuss the progress(or lack thereof), the Baltimore Police Department has made since the inception of the Consent Decree's mandates.
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The Lond Game April 28, 2022
discussing the findings outlined in our report ‘the Long Game’ and the proposed recommendations for a long-term investment in the black community.
*Systemic Reparations
*The impact of Mayor Scotts’ 2023 Budget on our communities
*Community based solutions already doing great work to address root issues (Live Stream of TaxPayer Night Testimony too!)
*Local Control of the Baltimore Police Department
*Participatory Budgeting Processes
*ACCOUNTABILITY TO OUR commUNITY. The Election.
*What WE can do. Call to ACTION