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2023 Report on Reimagining Public Safety

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents...........................................................................................................................1

Executive Summary.......................................................................................................................3

Background........................................................................................................................3

Approach............................................................................................................................3

Implementation.................................................................................................................. 3

Critical Findings and Recommendations........................................................................... 4

Detailed Report..............................................................................................................................6

Phase 1 - Data collection and assessment....................................................................................6

Background..............................................................................................................................6

Overall Approach..................................................................................................................... 6

Findings and issues.......................................................................................................................7

Compliance with data requests................................................................................................7

Summary findings - policies, procedures and practices.......................................................... 9

Use of Force Policies....................................................................................................... 11

Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (PLEAC) Accreditation.......14

De-escalation Training..................................................................................................... 14

Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)..................................................................................... 15

Crisis response................................................................................................................ 16

Union Contracts............................................................................................................... 17

Community representation...............................................................................................19

Demilitarization................................................................................................................ 20

Body cams, vehicle cams, etc..........................................................................................21

Community outreach........................................................................................................21

Civil forfeiture...................................................................................................................21

Barriers to reporting misconduct......................................................................................22

Enforcement equity................................................................................................................24

Arrests..............................................................................................................................26

Traffic stops......................................................................................................................27

Use of force......................................................................................................................27

Phase 2 - Turning Findings Into Action........................................................................................28

Selecting action targets......................................................................................................... 28

Action targets from the summary findings........................................................................28

Action targets from enforcement equity analysis............................................................. 30

Recommendations for Phase 2 action...................................................................................30

Phase 2 progress as of November 2023......................................................................... 31

Phase 2 ends with lack of meaningful progress...............................................................32

Phase 3 - the press for change goes public................................................................................ 33

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Footnotes.....................................................................................................................................35

Supplemental Material.................................................................................................................37

Data Collection and Reporting - NAACP Recommendations................................................ 37

Use of Force Data Collection...........................................................................................37

Data Collection for Traffic/Investigative Stops................................................................. 38

Implementation................................................................................................................ 39

Deficiencies by Agency..........................................................................................................40

Agencies that did not substantially provide input to the Phase 1 data collection and

assessment effort.............................................................................................................40

Agencies assessed with significant unaddressed issues in policies, procedures and

practices...........................................................................................................................41

Enforcement Equity Ratios by Agency: 2014 - 2021 Arrests...........................................45

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