Please click here to read the October 2018 press release from the families of people murdered by CPD who have made specific recommendations for the city’s Community and Problem Oriented Policing Plan.
Upcoming Cleveland Police Commission Meetings:
- Monthly meetings open to the public are publicized at https://www.clecpc.org/
Email cpc@surjneo.org for more information.
The SURJ-NEO Community Police Commission (CPC) Working Group has the following goals:
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- The Cleveland Community Police Commission has given recommendations to the city which would raise the historic standard of policing. This process needs public involvement – both policy input and ongoing implementation assessment.
- We want to build community understanding of the reforms themselves, so that there can be true accountability. For example, the department has a new definition of “acceptable use of force,” a new disciplinary matrix used when officers violate policy, the chief has a new statement of community problem-oriented policing (CPOP), and the city has ongoing oversight by the Civilian Police Review Board (CPRB). If officers commit violence that is not necessary, proportional, and after attempted de-escalation, that’s wrong, even if in the past it would have been considered “objectively reasonable.”
- We want to mobilize the public as needed to provide the outcry for racial justice that will move recommendations forward into policy and implementation.
As part of the CPC working group, what can you expect?
What is it like to take aim against the impunity (publicly passively supported) by which police officers think they are doing their job when they murder Black people?
Well, it looks like a lot of database and document work. It looks like sitting through a lot of evening meetings all over Cleveland, tracking info online, maintaining – and then sharing repeatedly – a basic commonsense perspective that does not abandon racial justice!
We:
(1) attend Commission meetings which take place throughout the month at various locations around Cleveland. These meetings are public and open to anyone. Please join us!
and
(2) meet once a month (on the third Sunday of the month) as a working group to pool information and create a shared strategy for going forward.
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Read our October 18, 2016 press release and Issue 33 Fact Sheet.
