{"id":5378,"date":"2010-08-08T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achaloza.com\/lccr\/wordpress\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2022-05-30T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:15:52","slug":"police-accountability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/what-we-do\/police-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Police brutality and misconduct is disproportionately experienced in communities of color.<\/h2>\n<h2>LCR has successfully litigated police misconduct cases, and we have a successful track record of negotiating the implementation of cultural competency and implicit bias training in response to incidents of racial profiling. Social science research confirms that diversity is a critical component of decreasing the tension between communities of color and public safety agencies.<\/h2>\n<h2>LCR implements a multi-prong approach to promote and strengthen community policing such as challenging the failure to hire qualified candidates of color (bypassing); monitoring residency requirements for public safety jobs; and advocating for linguistic diversity in public safety agencies (language certification).<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"success-stories\" style=\"color: #ff4f00; font-weight: bold;\">Success Stories<\/h2>\n<p><em>Coleman v. Boston Police<\/em>\u00a0(federal lawsuit for the fatal shooting of an unarmed young Black man by the Boston police)<\/p>\n<p><em>Morgan v. Boston Police<\/em>\u00a0(challenging the arbitrary and discriminatory use of criminal history records in hiring)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We promote community policing and hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5871,"parent":9,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-PoliceAccountability.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5378\/revisions\/11843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}