Police Accountability
Impact for Equity’s Police Accountability program seeks to increase public safety and promote racial justice. We are working to enact systemic police reforms, including by strengthening the police accountability system, promoting community safety, improving police practices, reimagining the roles that police departments and other entities play in producing public safety, and transforming the relationship between the police department and the communities it serves. In all our work, we are committed to ensuring that those most directly affected by the reforms play an active role in developing them.
Read OUR Issue Brief: THE State of SAFE-T ACT – Assessing the Promise of Body-Worn Cameras
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act (SAFE-T Act) is an omnibus piece of legislation passed in 2021 that reforms multiple laws, including laws governing policing practices. Using research, analysis, and investigation, Impact for Equity is evaluating the impact of the SAFE-T Act’s reforms related to policing behavior and public safety and will report its findings in a series of issue briefs.
This report is the first in the SAFE-T Act series, focusing on the effectiveness of law enforcement body-worn cameras using data from the Chicago Police Department and other police oversight agencies.