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The Long History of Black Officers Reforming Policing From Within

After decades of being ineligible for top positions, some black law-enforcement leaders today try to shape how officers think about racism and inequality.

Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program Helps Man Turn His Life Around

"Jail won't stop addiction, but treatment can."

Diagnosis: Murder

"When you have a commodity that people are determined to get, but it’s been declared illegal, they’re going to turn to an illegal market. An illegal market is necessarily violent because they can’t avail themselves with any of the normal channels for dispute resolution.”
- Former Prosecutor Inge Fryklund, Cook County (IL) State's Attorney's Office

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In an October 2017 study, sociologist Patrick Sharkey and his co-authors found that for every ten nonprofit organizations that focus on issues like crime reduction, substance abuse treatment or neighborhood development, a city of 100,000 will have a nine percent decrease in murders, a six percent decrease in all violent crimes, a four percent decrease in property crimes. Help LEAP make a difference today!

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Fmr. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom

Kansas City, MO

"The goal is to develop a fairer criminal justice system... we want to punish, deter, and rehabilitate - not merely confine and forget."

Chief of Police Todd Radford

Lakeway, TX

"How law enforcement interacts with people undergoing mental health crises is a serious challenge for communities: we've got to get it right."

Sir Robert Peel founded modern policing in 1829 by establishing the London Metropolitan Police Force. Peel's commissioners developed the Peelian Principles, a set of ideals that defined the ethical requirements police officers must abide by in order to do their job effectively.

Read the nine Peelian Principles

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