How we choose our initiatives
We consult Colorado leaders of color when choosing our initiatives as well as use the following assessment metric to ensure the initiatives we support are in service of our goals.
Does this project or policy:
Reduce the number of people imprisoned, under surveillance/monitoring, or under the control of the punishment bureaucracy?
Reduce the reach of policing, jails, prisons, and surveillance in our everyday lives?
Create resources and infrastructure that are steady, preventative, and accessible without police / prison guard contact?
Decrease and re-direct funds from the punishment bureaucracy to other social goods?
Reduce the number of people in contact with police, or the level / length of time of that contact?
Provide for data transparency on stops, arrests, budgeting, weapons, police violence and misconduct, technology, etc.?
Remove police from schools, campuses, hospitals, or care spaces?
Demilitarize or disarm the police?
Challenge the notion that the punishment bureaucracy increases safety and eliminates violence? Decouple the concepts of policing and incarceration from ideas of public safety?
Strengthen capacities to prevent or address harm and create processes for real community accountability?
Resources:
https://transformharm.org/police-reforms-you-should-always-oppose/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/16/its-not-about-bad-apples-how-us-police-reforms-have-failed-to-stop-brutality-and-violence
We’re building a coalition.
We are stronger together. Let’s work together to protect our most vulnerable neighbors in Colorado from the harms of the criminal INjustice system.