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The Center Policing Equity and the Fines & Fees Justice Center have published a white paper on prioritizing safety in federal transportation funding. Recognizing a need to shift from a traditional traffic enforcement approach, DOT has promoted their Safe System approach, which focuses on safer speeds, cars, and road designs rather than primarily arresting and citing drivers to reduce traffic crashes. This report highlights the benefits of such a change, but notes DOT is undermining it by funding grants that prioritize high-volume citations. The DOT has also provided conflicting and outdated guidance to law enforcement agencies around what enforcement measures to prioritize. https://lnkd.in/euszdMhb

😢Really sad 🔴Urgent Community Alert: Demand Safety and Justice in Surrey We are heartbroken by the recent tragedies in Surrey. On May 19, 19-year-old Simran Khattra was found dead after weeks of being missing. This follows last year's devastating incident when a young boy was killed by other students at school. Parents in Surrey should not have to endure such unimaginable losses. These incidents highlight a critical issue: delayed communication and lack of transparency from police and school authorities. In the case of the boy killed at school, his parents were informed very late, and clear information about the murder was withheld due to privacy concerns. The culprits have not been promptly punished, reflecting an overemphasis on protecting perpetrators' rights. Additionally, rampant shoplifting and other crimes exploit laws meant to protect individual rights. Store thefts go unpunished, burdening taxpayers and undermining community safety. RCMP officers often find their hands tied by bureaucratic constraints, unable to act swiftly. Meanwhile, we continue to lose loved ones, and our community remains vulnerable. Our justice system, influenced by some politicians' soft-on-crime policies, allows criminals to be released on bail soon after arrest. This endangers our community and erodes public safety. Innocent people like Tejeshwar Kalia, a 22-year-old Indian student working at a Circle K store, face severe penalties for defending themselves against violent attackers. We urgently demand: 1• Immediate and transparent communication from authorities. 2• Swift and decisive justice for victims and their families. 3• Empowered and effective policing. 4• Laws that protect the innocent, not criminals. 5• Reform of soft-on-crime policies and the politicized justice system. Our mayor’s reluctance to establish a provincial police force must be challenged. We need a system that prioritizes the safety of its citizens. 🙏Unite and demand action now. Our children’s lives and our community’s future depend on it. ➡️Raise your voice for a safer, just Canada. Share this alert and let Ottawa hear us! #redfm #connectfm #cbcnews #surreybc #canada

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Earlier this year the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) called for more action to be done in preventing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). This call comes after new statistics reveal increases in VAWG, reported by the NPCC and the College of Policing The National Policing Statement for VAWG, commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing, found: 🔴 Over one million VAWG related crimes were recorded during 2022/23, accounting for 20% of all police recorded crime. 🔴 Police recorded VAWG related crime increased by 37% between 2018/23. Everyone has the right to feel safe, and it's an area where we all can play a part by both understanding and reducing VAWG. We are proud to have been able to support the UK Home Office in their VAWG work by developing StreetSafe so you can quickly, accurately & anonymously report areas you feel unsafe in. #noexcuse #vawg #streetsafe #violenceagainstwomen #endingviolence Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce

Um 🤔 this is Interesting. Instead of changing the powers the Police and Council have , how about they encourage, support and fund them to use the Anti-social behaviour injunction . A very powerful ASB tool that is regularly put onto Social Landlords to use.

With the UK public preparing to head to the polls to elect the next government, each party has set out its specific manifesto pledges on policing and crime; Policing Insight’s Thomas James looks at what the parties are promising to implement should they get into power, and – despite widespread media coverage of policing and crime over recent months – whether voters actually care about it as an election issue. ❝Despite policing regularly featuring in the media headlines over recent years, so far police and crime has not been a key area of campaign debate in an election that has focused on issues such as the NHS, taxes, education and immigration. ❝The [Labour] manifesto contains pledges to crackdown on antisocial behaviour, and to introduce “a new Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, restoring patrols to town centres by recruiting thousands of new police officers, police and community support officers, and special constables”. This is broken down into slightly more detail in Labour’s fiscal plan, where £400million is allocated for the recruitment of 13,000 new neighbour police and community PCSOs, as well ‘specialist domestic abuse experts’ in 999 control rooms.❞ ❝Alongside the pledges on numbers and powers, the Tory manifesto includes a promise to ‘restore public trust in policing” by introducing legislation on vetting procedures on officers, as well as licensing for ‘police officers for specialist roles’.❞ ❝The Liberal Democrat manifesto includes a commitment to scrapping police and crime commissioners and replacing them with ‘local Police Boards made up of councillors and representatives from relevant local groups’ – a move which they believe will save money that can then be spent on frontline policing.❞ ❝Elected Green MPs will push for ‘an end to the routine use of stop and search and to the use of facial recognition software’, and for forces ‘to deliver ongoing fitness to practice assessments on diversity’ for all officers and relevant civilian staff.❞ ❝Reform UK would scrap all diversity, equality and inclusion roles and regulations ‘to stop two-tier policing’, ‘sack chief constables that allow two-tier policing’, and favour ‘a strong preference’ for ex-military officers and personnel as part of the police recruitment and leadership approach.❞ ❝There is only one mention of ‘police’ in the whole [SNP] manifesto, and four mentions of ‘crime’ – all linked to the SNP’s pledge to push for an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU, and the benefits that it believes this would deliver.❞ ❝Plaid Cymru states that Wales’ four forces have lost out under the current police funding formula, and that while policing remains ‘under the control of the Westminster Government’, it will make the case that policing ‘must be properly funded in order to do its job properly’.❞ [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] https://lnkd.in/e-rh2cDZ #lawenforcement #policing #police #politics

Another 12 School Children Murdered As we speed up phase 01 of the Safer Streets Programme with so many incredible institutions between Young Urbanists South Africa and RTMC, SAICE to many more including our four main metro's, we need to slow down on our roads to protect our children. The current paradox we found ourselves in where we have normalise headlines like the one below where every day parents, mothers, communities loose our loved ones on our roads. I do not need again to recite our lethal stats but just to reorientate you on the seriousness that was articulated by the recent appointed Minister for Transportation, Barbara Creecy D: “We cannot normalise a situation in which more than 12 000 people are killed on our roads every year,” she said. “Nor can our country continue to sustain the cost of more than 10 000 fatal crashes, which the Road Traffic Management Corporation estimates cost R186 billion or 3% of the South African GDP every year. We must ensure the country’s roads are safer for those who use them.” We will be amplifying these preventable deaths going forward but most importantly the solutions we have as a collective to solve them. Read in the comment how to learn more on the Safer Streets Programme supported by Uber and how to be part of this transversal programme to make South African streets safer in 2024. Sikho Msomi Rehana Moosajee Amanda O Mathe Dr. Mathetha Mokonyama Ofentse Madisha Haniefa Gaibe Pr Eng Dirk du Preez Keresha Naidoo Matsidikanye Moswane Andile Skosana Lemo Monyatsi Sekadi Phayane Pr. Eng Gershwin Fortune Sindile Mavundla #saferstreets

https://lnkd.in/ee52gvbD The opinions and actions of left wing experts is how society wound up in the complete mess it is today. We need more police and a justice system that protects society, in other words the complete opposite of what it does now.

Tackling VAWG should rightly be a high priority for us all. These crimes and attitudes are abhorrent and not just for the police to focus on. We need a strong partnership approach with a range of services and organisations working even more closely together and that includes police, community safety partnerships, education (schools, colleges, universities), specialist service providers, transport providers, those working within the night time economy and the voluntary sector. We need to encourage reporting and we need to make that as easy as possible. Women and girls need to know that reporting is worthwhile and that reports will be taken seriously and acted upon. There is good work going on, including changing the behaviour and attitudes of men and boys, but much more needs to be done to ensure women and girls can go about their lives without feeling threatened or vulnerable or becoming victims.

20% of all recorded crime relates to male violence against women and girls. This is the tip of the iceberg against that which goes unreported. I don't think I have a single female friend that hasn't experienced violence or sexual violence at some level. It is normalised as just what happens to women. This has to change. Part of the change lies in how we work with and support children and young people. Investing in highly skilled youth and community work practitioners that can support colleagues in formal education, justice, health and social care is key to a long term solution. We need to work with young people to change the narratives and cultures that perpetuate everyday sexism. Social reinforcement of gender stereotypes and norms are part of the reason that violence and sexual violence against women is 'just what happens' (to at least 1 in 12 of us). Let's head that off at the pass, by working collaboratively to support young people during their formative years. I welcome the significant prioritisation that that current government is placing on this issue and look forward to seeing how the (brilliant) ministerial appointments will translate their policy ideas into funding for practice. There is an urgent need for a cross-departmental and upstream approach. #youthwork #gender #feminism #VAWG

The commissioner has stated the case in no uncertain terms, but I’d go further. We aren’t heading off a cliff, we’re already in freefall. The question now is what happens when we eventually hit the ground? To give greater clarity the MET is facing £450 million cut in the coming year. This follows a slew of cuts over the last decade or so where police buildings and infrastructure were sold off in a attempt to maintain staff and service, but there’s no more silverware to hoc so what now do we do? We still have dedicated staff and officers who are doing everything they possibly can to serve the people of London, but there are limits with what can be done with such deep cuts. Enhancing efficiency etc can only go so far. Policing has become ever more complex and resource intensive. The fact that other major cities around the world like New York and Sydney have a 50% greater budget (even though Sydney has half the popualtion of London), speaks volumes. So what would you want police focus on, and what should we stop doing? This may well be the question the Commisioner is agonising over, and there is no abswer that won’t let some people down. Either way we will work with what we have to do the very best we can, that will not change.