Community Solutions to Policing
Nickeia Hunter | Community Activist, Chair Legal Redress NAACP Vancouver Branch 1139
Brandon Lee | Community CONSCIOUS Policing Strategist
Ibsahu Ma'akmaha | MHA, YACEP, C.Qg. Reiki M. Saga Co-Founder
Community Solutions to Policing
Soluciones Comunitarias Para La Vigilancia
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Bringing the history of our communities to the front and providing the voices of those injured by the laws and those who enforce it. A background as to the history of police violence within our BIPOC communities and the systemic racism buried in the laws and those meant to protect and enforce the law was given.
By bringing voices of our community that have been affected by the profiling and undue racism in our community, we put a face to a story, creating empathy and a visual persona to these stories. In doing so the lived experiences of our community are finally heard and the goal is to educate others and push the narrative to allow growth and redemption in our communities.
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•Contact your state elected officials (find your representatives here) and ask them to support the following state legislation that strengthens law enforcement accountability, provides civil remedies for those harmed by police misconduct, and strong state oversight and accountability for law enforcement.
•Become an ally and support local justice-oriented organizations
– Vancouver NAACP sign up for the newsletter by subscribing to the email list
– SWW League of United Latin American Citizens
– Washington Coalition for Police Accountability – Get Involved•Participate in monthly meetings of the City of Vancouver Community Task Force on Policing
– Topics include implementation of a police camera program, use of force policies, and implementation of the recommendations of the PERF report
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• Learn more about how existing models of bringing the community to lead the process of creating policing models that center the needs of people most impacted by law enforcement. It includes 34 recommendations and examples of models in other cities.
• Order Community Conscious Policing: A Guide for People’s Justice and Law Enforcement Solutions or order wherever books are sold
• Diversity Trainings Usually Fail — Here’s What You Can Do To Create Lasting Changes – Interview with Brandon Lee in Forbes Magazine 2019
• Community Conscious Leadership interview (video) with Brandon Lee on the Corrections Community Podcast 2021.
• Ibsahu Ma’akmaha’s work in trauma healing and racial justice: https://sagahealing.com/
• Trauma and Social Location: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Pyramid: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html
• Mapping Police Violence – A resource that breaks down various aspects of police violence and addresses myths about its relation to crime rates and accountability for harm.