Community Renewal Society will continue our efforts to correct law enforcement systems that discriminate, criminalize, and torture black communities. This year, we will renew our police accountability campaign by addressing police reform in Chicago and Illinois. Our Police Issue Team will work with the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability and host community conversations on policing to identify priorities for community oversight and reforms to the police union contract in Chicago. We will also continue our advocacy and monitoring of police reform legislation at the state level.
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Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA)
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Coalition for Police Contracts Accountability (CPCA)
CRS has joined a coalition of community, policy advocacy, and civil rights organizations who share concerns on the barriers to police accountability codified in the City of Chicago’s contracts with the police unions. Our coalition has drafted recommendations to reform these contracts and increase police accountability. This coalition will be working to pressure the Mayor and aldermen to bargain for contracts that include the reform recommendations presented by our coalition.
CPCA in the news:
- How Chicago's Police Union Contract Ensures Abuses Remain in the Shadows
In Theses Times, By Adeshina Emmanuel, June 26, 2017 | July Issue - Emanuel’s Resistance To Engagement On Police Reform Is Hurting His Cause
The Daily Line, By Mike Fourcher, July 1, 2017
Press Releases:
- Community groups call for changes to FOP contract as "critical step" to police reform in Chicago
- Coalition urges City to commit to police contract reforms after Mayor Emanuel proposes “independent monitor”
- CRS’ FAIR COPS Culminates with Confirmation of Chicago’s First Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety
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