This document outlines a campaign to redefine public safety in New York City through police reform. It provides background on police practices under Bloomberg that targeted communities of color. It announces a discussion on defining safety and envisioning community-oriented policing. Participants will discuss what safety means to them and how policing could focus on respect, partnership and effectiveness. The document provides hashtags to engage in the online conversation around reimagining police practices and policies to promote safety for all New Yorkers.

1. Redefining
Public Safety
#Safety4All
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2. Join the conversation online!
Use & follow these hashtags:
#Safety4All
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#Safety4All
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3. Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) is:
Audre Lorde Project, Bronx Defenders, Center for Popular Democracy, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center
on Race, Crime & Justice of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Color of Change, CAAAV Organizing Asian
Communities, Criminal Justice Clinic at Pace Law School, Drug Policy Alliance, FIERCE, Justice Committee,
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Legal Aid Society, Make the Road NY, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Marijuana
Arrests Research Project, NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York City Anti-Violence Project,
New York Civil Liberties Union, NY Communities for Change, Peoples’ Justice for Community Control and
Police Accountability, Picture the Homeless, Sistas & Brothas United/ Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy
Coalition, Streetwise & Safe, VOCAL-NY, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice5 Borough Defenders, Arab
American Association of New York, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Association of Legal Aid
Attorneys/UAW Local 2325, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Black
Women's Blueprint, Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Campaign to Stop the False Arrests, Center for NuLeadership on
Urban Solutions, Chhaya CDC, Council on American Islamic Relations - New York, Child Welfare Organizing
Project, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility, Desis Rising Up & Moving, Families
Against Stop & Frisk, Families for Freedom, Gay Men of African Descent, The Game Changers Project,
Immigrant Defense Project, Jews Against Islamophobia, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Latino
Commission on AIDS. Manhattan Young Democrats, New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE). Northern
Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Persist Health Project, PROS Network, Public Science Project,
Queers for Economic Justice, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, Sylvia Rivera Law Project,
Tribeca for Change, Trinity Lutheran Church, T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Turning Point for
Women and Families, Youth Represent

4. Public Safety Under Bloomberg
• STOP-AND-FRISK: Over 5 million stops, mostly
people of color. In vast majority, no wrongdoing
found.
• SURVEILLANCE: Warrantless NYPD spying on
Muslim communities with no crime leads found.
• Discriminatory & abusive policing of LBGT,
homeless, public housing residents, youth,
immigrants, women, and others.
#Safety4All
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5. Speakers
• Jose López, Make the Road NY @JLopez_MRNY
• Khary Lazarre-White, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
@KLWspeaks
• Linda Sarsour, Arab American Association of NY
@lsarsour
• Erica Ford, LIFE Camp, @EricaFordNYC
• Kyle Bragg, SEIU 32-BJ @32bjvp
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6. Redefining Public Safety in the First 100 Days
• APPOINT a Police Commissioner committed to respect
and #safety4all New Yorkers.
• DROP the legal challenges to stop-and-frisk reforms &
ensure effective implementation.
• ISSUE executive orders to protect New Yorkers from
discriminatory & abusive policing.
• END surveillance of Muslim communities.
• ADVANCE a culture of transparency & accountability at
the NYPD.
#Safety4All
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7. Defining Safety
What does safety
mean to YOU?
#Safety4All
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8. A Community Safety Era
What would policing look like
if RESPECT, PARTNERSHIP, &
EFFECTIVENESS were
hallmarks?
#Safety4All
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9. For Discussion
Defining Safety:
What does safety
mean to you?
#Safety4All
A Community Safety
Era:
What would policing
look like if RESPECT,
PARTNERSHIP &
EFFECTIVENESS were
hallmarks?
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10. For mobile updates*, take out
your phone now and text
JUSTICE
to 877-877
*normal messaging rates may apply
#Safety4All
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11. www.changetheNYPD.org
@changetheNYPD
ChangetheNYPD
changethenypd.tumblr.com
#Safety4All
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