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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5. FWPD National Initiative Building Community Trust and JusticeFort Worth Police Department National Initiative: December 17, 2019 Procedural Justice: Community and Police In September 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, to be run by a consortium of research institutions. Led by the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in partnership with the Justice Collaboratory at Yale University Law School, the Center for Policing Equity at UCLA and John Jay, and the Urban Institute. 2Background: Procedural Justice: Community and Police •Improve relationships and increase trust between communities and criminal justice agencies •Advance the public and scholarly understandings of issues related to those relationships and effective strategies for building trust 3Mission: Procedural Justice: Community and Police 4Pilot Sites:The National Initiative combines existing and newly developed interventions informed by procedural justice, implicit bias, and reconciliation in six pilot sites around the country. Procedural Justice: Community and Police 53 Pillars of the National Initiative: Implicit biasDescribes the automatic associations all humans make about groups and group members, and how these associations impact behavior in certain situations Procedural justiceFocuses on the way police interact with people,and how these interactions shape people’sviews of the police, their willingness to obey the law, and cooperate and engage with legal authorities ReconciliationRepairing relationships between police and minority communities by addressing history, grievances, and misconceptions, and finding common ground Completed Training: •Procedural Justice 1&2 training provides the foundation for the Procedural Justice Principles: Voice, Neutrality, Respect and Trustworthiness. •Procedural Justice 3 training explores the science regarding the brains decision-making processes and provides discussions about how Officers can make better choices when we are conscious of the biases and stereotypes that exist in the world. 6Procedural Justice: Community and Police Completed Training: •These Principles were all discussed and demonstrated in a classroom setting. •Officers are taught to recognize stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination and biases and given tools to minimize the negative impact these can have. •1700+ Officers received 16 hours of Procedural Justice 1&2 training and 6 hours of Implicit Bias Training •School Resource Officers and Neighborhood Police Officers received additional training on creating and facilitating successful conversations. 7Procedural Justice: Community and Police Community Engagements: •Mercedes-Benz Diversity Discussion Panel Held conversations with Ignite Assoc., a minority resource group working towards community goals, and initiated dialogues regarding community issues. •Faith and Community Leaders United Town Hall Attended public forum to discuss SW FW community concerns •FWPD Webcast-April 2017 Announced PJ objectives and goals related to improving community relations. •FWPD Community PJ Kick-off Event Community members and stakeholders were invited to hear about FWPD’s role in the National Initiative, PJ Training, working towards creating community partnerships and future goals. 8Procedural Justice: Community and Police Community Engagements: •Remington College Criminal Justice Program Advisory Luncheon Held discussions on Criminal Justice Programs and how PJ and developing community relations is tied to it. •Fatherhood Coalition of Tarrant County Meetings-Met with coalition, which promotes responsible fatherhood, and discussed community partnerships and objectives of PJ. •Clergy & Police Alliance Provided presentation on PJ and held conversations on issues of trust and working to improve it. •IQRA for Peach Community Meeting Attended mosque and held discussions regarding improving cultural awareness and improving relationships. 9Procedural Justice: Community and Police Community Engagements: •FWISD After School Program Met with school district officials to develop strategy of sharing PJ with the youth in the schools and creating youth/PD listening sessions and discussions. •Community Procedural Justice Awareness Forum Community Groups, residents and department officials met to discus latest projects and programs and held conversations on issues of trust and working to improve it. •Race and Culture Task Force Criminal Justice Committee Discussed the department’s involvement in the National Initiative and provided overview of training material. •Use of Force Citizen Awareness Class This is now part of departmental policy and providing every quarter. Citizens get to come to the Training Academy to receive training on departmental policy and statistics and policy related to Use of Force as well as participate in scenario training. 10Procedural Justice: Community and Police Achievements and Goals: •Continue providing Procedural Justice training for all graduating Recruits. •Continue Procedural Justice training utilizing department-wide refresher courses and roll-call resources. •Policy and procedure adjustments guided by the Procedural Justice Principles. 11Procedural Justice: Community and Police 12 •Revised general order on bias-free policing •Began reporting use of force, arrests, stops, and discipline policies and statistics online •Issued new order on racial profiling that reaffirmed the department’s commitment to unbiased policing •Revised use of force/force options and use of force reporting general orders •Created new policy and guidelines for Police and Community Relationships Procedural Justice: Community and PoliceAchievements and Goals: 13 •Increased dialogue between Police and Neighborhood Residents •Formation of new Citizen/Police groups such as Beyond the Badge •Improved channels for problem-solving skills within the community •Increased transparency on departmental website, providing greater access to departmental personal, policy and data. Procedural Justice: Community and PoliceAchievements and Goals: Community Survey Results 14 Why and how we surveyed residents… •Research Questions •Was the intervention associated with changes in residents’ perceptions of the police and police-community interactions and relationships? •Was the intervention associated with changes in residents’ victimization experiences and perceptions of safety and disorder? Community Survey Results 15 •Sample Methods (by city) •Identified residential street segments with highest concentration of neighborhood poverty and crime (top 10 percentile) •Randomly-selected approximately 1,000 households within segments •Knocked on sampled household doors to survey one adult living there •Used teams of trained local interviewers •Paper -and-pencil instrument, administered in English and Spanish Where the surveys were conducted…16 When and how many surveys were administered…17 Evaluation Data Collection Largely Captured Training Impact 18 …perceptions of procedural fairness are higher at time two 19 …as are perceptions of police legitimacy 20 …as are perceptions of police legitimacy (cont.)21 …and perceptions of community policing 22 Feelings of trust and connection to officers are also higher at time two… 23 …and perceptions of police bias are lower at time two 24 There Was Variation Across Cities 25 Key Takeaways 26 The National Initiative was an experiment in improving police-community relationships using a variety of approaches, methods, and messengers, and innovation occurred throughout the implementation process. The evaluation of this complex, multisite learning effort yielded several key lessons for effectively implementing police-community trust-building efforts and for future studies of similar efforts. Key Takeaways 27 Police leadership is critical for successfully and thoroughly implementing this type of ambitious undertaking Ensuring that procedural justice trainers were “credible messengers” Developed a reconciliation process for police and communities Make collecting data on outcomes such as arrests and use of force by race and ethnicity a priority. Key Takeaways 28 The observed improvement in community perceptions on measures the National Initiative sought to affect, such as trust in police and police legitimacy, is a very promising finding. Finally, it is crucial to note that although community perceptions improved in the aggregate, views of police and police legitimacy remain largely negative in the neighborhoods most affected by crime and disadvantage. In short, even where perceptions improved, there is still ample room for improvement. Moving Forward 29 Ongoing Procedural Justice Training Reconciliation Process: 2020 Listening Session to be scheduled throughout the year. Police Forums to be scheduled throughout the year. 30 Questions ?