Public Safety

ENSURE PUBLIC

SAFETY FOR ALL!

Right-wing politicians use the threat of crime to divide us and justify rapidly growing police forces as they cut the social services and crime prevention programs that can reduce violence.

Our current model of policing is too often focused on reacting to crime after it happens instead of preventing it. Instead of working closely with communities, the police often stand above them.

And we all know the tragic stories about an interaction with police resulting in harm, or even death, to Black and brown people; people who are experiencing homelessness; people living with the effects of trauma; people living with mental illness; or people living with developmental, physical, or mental disabilities.

 

    Pennsylvanians Together is committed to ensuring the safety of all by

    • supporting community-based public safety efforts that provide the appropriate level of policing as well as necessary social welfare and mental health services to deal with situations beyond the capacity of the police.

    • creating strong citizen oversight of law enforcement agencies that establishes training and mental health standards, has investigatory and disciplinary power, provides an independent review process for police officers who harm civilians, and eliminates all legal and contractual barriers to police accountability.

    • enacting legislation that limits the use of deadly force, prohibits methods of detaining citizens likely to lead to injury and death, and not only requires officers of the law to report the misconduct of their peers but also protects them when they do.

    • investing in low-income communities, and especially those of Black and brown people, to create economic opportunities that reduce crime and to repair the damage that our legacy of slavery, the “war on drugs,” and racism, more broadly, has created.

    Visit the website of our 501(c)(4) sister organization Pennsylvanians Together in Action.

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