CICS is dedicated to a modern vision of community safety that takes a broad approach to meeting community needs while reducing the harm of current approaches.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2020
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
Come work with @CICSGeorgetown and me as a Senior Research Analyst on community safety projects! georgetown.wd1.myworkdayjobs…
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
Last month, we held a convening on non-police alternative first response with @CICSGeorgetown for an opportunity to meet, learn, share ideas, and discuss the future of this growing field.
Watch it here:
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
“A system of alternative first response represents a framework in which cities begin to respond to people with the care they need–not just the gun, badge, and handcuffs we have available,” said @TahirDuckett, Executive Director of @CICSGeorgetown.
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
"The shift towards non-police responses to mental health and other calls for service is a consequential one."
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More from @Christy_E_Lopez: "The reports recognize that effective and lawful policing sometimes requires the police to step back." washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
CICS Faculty Director @Christy_E_Lopez examines the DOJ's evolving approach to its investigative findings reports. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Eric Cumberbatch challenging us to see expertise in lived experience and look for more solutions on the ground, rather than in academia.
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
“People are serious about redefining the role of police and what problems are better suited for other people to solve. We can’t wait for research - but we have to measure while we innovate - especially to look for unintended consequences.” @NIJDirLaVigne w/ @barryfriedman1
We need people who don't see respondents as risks to be managed, but rather people in need of care. - Amy Watson
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
@NIJDirLaVigne: “The true experts are the people who are living and experiencing the issues”
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
Faculty Director @barryfriedman1 kicks off a conversation with @TahirDuckett and NIJ Director @NIJDirLaVigne on measuring and evaluating the impact of alternative first response programs.
"We are here today because we believe in the power of change. We want to build a community where alternative response is no longer alternative, but the norm." -Darius Baxter of @GOODProjectsDC
Moki Macias of @PADatlanta challenging us to think about the risk in alternative response taking on enforcement-we shouldn't re-aggregate policing functions in alternative response organizations.
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
Packed house @CICSGeorgetown @policingproject convening on building alternatives to police response. This work is the future.
When getting off the ground, get your city attorney bought into your theory of change right off the top, says @bronson_kristin
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
I’m at Georgetown Law as the @iaemsc representative participating with our friends from NYU School of Law @policingproject & the Georgetown School of Law @CICSGeorgetown on the Future of Alternative First Response: Building Sustainable & Scalable Programs - an incredible program
Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
At @CICSGeorgetown hearing the future of alternative response with @TahirDuckett, Moki Macias + team from Atlanta’s PAD, Raven Loaiza from Dayton Mediation Unit, Anne Larson & the CSG Justice Team, Laquisha Grant from NYC B*Heard, Elliot Jones of Oakland’s MACRO & 170 others.
Ivy Lee from San Francisco talking about embedding clinicians at dispatch to help advise on when an alternative response is best
@RavenLoaiza noting that despite responding to a dozen call types, they haven't had an injury on the job yet.
