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Center for Innovations in Community Safety

@CICSGeorgetown

CICS is dedicated to a modern vision of community safety that takes a broad approach to meeting community needs while reducing the harm of current approaches.

 Washington, DC
law.georgetown.edu/CICS
Joined September 2020
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Eric Cumberbatch challenging us to see expertise in lived experience and look for more solutions on the ground, rather than in academia.
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We need people who don't see respondents as risks to be managed, but rather people in need of care. - Amy Watson
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Moki Macias of @PADatlanta challenging us to think about the risk in alternative response taking on enforcement-we shouldn't re-aggregate policing functions in alternative response organizations.
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When getting off the ground, get your city attorney bought into your theory of change right off the top, says @bronson_kristin
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Ivy Lee from San Francisco talking about embedding clinicians at dispatch to help advise on when an alternative response is best
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@RavenLoaiza noting that despite responding to a dozen call types, they haven't had an injury on the job yet.
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Our Faculty Director @Christy_E_Lopez kicks us off talking about how we'll never get to constitutional policing if we don't remove them from the center of our public safety strategy.
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We're live here at @GeorgetownLaw with 175 alternative first response practitioners, advocates, researchers, and funders for two days of deep problem solving on next steps for the movement
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Our statement on the settlement of Kenneth Walker's litigation against the City of Louisville: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/…
CICS is honored to receive a contribution from the settlement of Kenneth Walker's case against the City of Louisville arising from the death of Breonna Taylor. We are dedicated to building a world free from the violence experienced by Ms. Taylor and Mr. Walker, and we are moved and grateful for this contribution in support of our work.

ALT CICS is honored to receive a contribution from the settlement of Kenneth Walker's case against the City of Louisville arising from the death of Breonna Taylor. We are dedicated to building a world free from the violence experienced by Ms. Taylor and Mr. Walker, and we are moved and grateful for this contribution in support of our work.

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Are you an undergraduate student at Georgetown University? Join our team! We are looking to hire several "Virtual Training Assistants" to help us deliver our virtual ABLE Train-the-Trainer classes. Check out the job on Hoyaworks - #28655! Closes 10/28. tinyurl.com/ABLEVTA
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How can we reduce the # of people w/mental illness and substance use disorders killed by police and held in jails and prisons every year? A panel of experts will discuss at a @WilsonCSJ_event at 12:30 PM EST on Feb. 16. Register now: bit.ly/PoliceAlternatives #cjreform
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