CPE in the News

Major cities are making fewer than half the traffic stops they did before the start of the pandemic, The New York Times reports. Their analysis suggests police may be reassessing traffic stops that can lead to racially biased and even fatal encounters between officers and community members. Accordin...

Sonya Massey’s family spoke to the media following the release of police officer body-worn camera footage weeks after her murder on July 7. During the press conference, the family’s attorney, Ben Crum...

As part of their preparations for the 2028 Olympic Games, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sent a group of officers to this year’s Paris Games. According to The LA Times, LAPD worked with the ...

The Daily Item reports that a Pennsylvania state grant will fund a mental health position at the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department. The goal of the $277,000 reinvestment fund is to avoid sendi...

Ashtian Barnes was murdered during a traffic stop for unpaid toll fees. The officer that killed him was granted qualified immunity, which was upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court. Seeking accountability ...

A routine traffic stop in Rochester, NY in June escalated when police pulled Marvin Taylor out of his car, first smashing his car window. Taylor, a Black man, had refused to get out of the car or roll...

The Modesto cited a study by the Center for Policing Equity that reveals that the average use-of-force rate for Black people in the United States is 3.6 times greater than the rate for White people: 

Following Minnesota’s passing of legislation restricting the concept of “excited delirium,” a term describing a supposed condition that leads to death in police custody, The Marshall Project explores ...

Following former president Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, TheGrio, a Black-led cable and podcast network, published an article on the nation’s response to the verdict. Spec...

On the fourth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon, CPE Co-founder and CEO, spoke to PBS News Hour about the state of police reforms, including backlash to some of those ref...

CPE Co-founder and COO, Tracie L. Keesee, joined experts from the United Nations Independent Mechanism to Promote Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement to collect testimony and investigate th...

In an interview with The Washington Post about the response to the Israel-Gaza war protests on campus, Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon, CPE Co-founder and CEO, discusses how mounting political pressure may ...

Charmin Leon, Director of Law Enforcement Initiatives at CPE, spoke at an event outside the Connecticut state capitol in support of House Bill 5324, which calls for a reduction in traffic stops for mi...

Route Fifty, a digital publication covering a variety of topics under the state and local government umbrella, published an article about the nation’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center ...

CPE Board Member and Interim Board Chair Ed Zimmerman, Esq., Chair of Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, was recognized in the DEIC Power100 “Allocators & Advisors” ca...

CPE Policy Director Scarlet Neath penned a response to The Washington Post’s editorial “Oregon’s bad trip comes to an end,” which suggested that the only tools available for decriminalizing drug use a...

An article by The Daily Item delves into the role of police officers in mental health emergency situations. The article cites figures from a 2023 CPE report, “Redesigning Public Safety: Mental Health ...

Center for Policing Equity Co-founder, President, and COO Dr. Tracie L. Keesee emceed the first-ever Metropolitan Police Department’s Women’s Conference, “Women Connecting with a Purpose: Learn. Grow....

An article published in the magazine The Good Men Project examines whether the work of Northern Colorado police investigators of assessing use of force (UOF) by police officers actually leads to more ...

Center for Policing Equity Co-founder and CEO Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon was interviewed by MSN about the rise in legislation aimed at rolling back reforms that were initiated over the past four years....

In the “Future Hindsight” Podcast, Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon discusses how multi-faceted policing equity is and why collaborating with and investing in communities is vital to developing detailed and ...