DECRIMINALIZING NEIGHBORHOODS
Promoting a New Vision of Public Safety, Association & Belonging
The Network brings together advocates, community organizers, academics, practicing lawyers, community leaders, and others to discuss and take action on the policing and criminalization of our neighborhoods.
OUR VISION
Change the Narrative
To make neighborhoods safer and freer, we need new ways of thinking about gangs, gang membership, and the crime and violence often associated with gangs. The network fosters analysis and critique to correct the misconceptions and racist assumptions about gangs and the policing of gangs that are common in law enforcement, the courts, academia, the media, and in the public consciousness.
Our goals are to:
Evaluate the Impacts of Gang Policing, Laws, and Programs
Communities have taken a variety of approaches to reduce neighborhood violence and to increase safety, healing, and social integration. These approaches are as varied as stop-and-frisk policing, jobs programs for people leaving jails and prisons, and healing circles for the currently gang-involved. The Network evaluates the successes and failures of different attempts to make neighborhoods safer.
Our goals are to:
Realize a New Vision
of Public Safety
Realizing a new vision of safety requires action by people and organizations with a wide variety of backgrounds and skills, but who all share common goals and who all recognize the leadership of impacted people. The Network coordinates its member organizations' efforts to increase public safety, reduce state violence, reduce gang violence, and reduce racially disproportionate outcomes.
Our goals are to:
Contact Information
DECRIMINALIZING NEIGHBORHOODS:
Promoting a New Vision of Public Safety, Association & Belonging
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