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.
Joined September 2020
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
11 Sep 2023
Come work with @CICSGeorgetown and me as a Senior Research Analyst on community safety projects! georgetown.wd1.myworkdayjobs…
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
12 Jul 2023
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
12 Jul 2023
“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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"The shift towards non-police responses to mental health and other calls for service is a consequential one."
📝 @TahirDuckett ti.me/44FdJ3V
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CICS Faculty Director @Christy_E_Lopez examines the DOJ's evolving approach to its investigative findings reports. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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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/…
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We're live here at @GeorgetownLaw with 175 alternative first response practitioners, advocates, researchers, and funders for two days of deep problem solving on next steps for the movement
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We need people who don't see respondents as risks to be managed, but rather people in need of care. - Amy Watson
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Eric Cumberbatch challenging us to see expertise in lived experience and look for more solutions on the ground, rather than in academia.
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
2 Jun 2023
“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
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
2 Jun 2023
@NIJDirLaVigne: “The true experts are the people who are living and experiencing the issues”
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
2 Jun 2023
Faculty Director @barryfriedman1 kicks off a conversation with @TahirDuckett and NIJ Director @NIJDirLaVigne on measuring and evaluating the impact of alternative first response programs.
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"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
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
Packed house @CICSGeorgetown @policingproject convening on building alternatives to police response. This work is the future.
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Center for Innovations in Community Safety retweeted
1 Jun 2023
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
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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.
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Our Faculty Director @Christy_E_Lopez kicks us off talking about how we'll never get to constitutional policing if we don't remove them from the center of our public safety strategy.
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