EXPAND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT Pre-COVID, Black people in Louisville were already dealing with the stress and trauma of redlining, disinvestment, and over-policing. Post-COVID and in the midst of the killings of Breonna Tayor, [...]
TECH EQUITY Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) or remote learning will be a normal part of the educational process for JCPS schools and families for the foreseeable future. Ensuring equity in technology is more important [...]
INTENTIONALLY CONSIDER 'UNCONSCIOUS' OR 'IMPLICIT' RACIAL BIAS Implement far more stringent and documented processes/data collection (disaggregated by race) when force is used to increase accountability around use of force. Require current and prospective [...]
REMOVE BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS AND CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT Remove contract provisions, local policies, and provisions in state Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights laws that: Allow officers to wait 48 hours or [...]
KEEP OFFICERS' DISCIPLINARY HISTORY ACCESSIBLE TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND THE PUBLIC Retain and make publicly available crime clearance data, particularly data on crime "cleared by exceptional means," and remove contract provisions, local and [...]
ENSURE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OFFICERS AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS THAT KILL OR SERIOUSLY INJURE CIVILIANS Remove contract provisions, local policies, and provisions in state Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights laws that: Require officers [...]
CHANGE IN POLICE REPRESENTATION The Louisville Metro Police Department is 12.5% African American, which is 146 officers of the total department of 1,168. One hundred and twenty-two are males and 24 are females. [...]
CHANGE IN POLICE LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, AND PRACTICE How we do policing, locally and nationally, must change. Improving police culture and behavior requires changes to the policies, practices, and budgets that govern them. We [...]
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY AND LAND OWNERSHIP BY RESIDENTS AND EXISTING WEST END BUSINESS OWNERS The vast majority of commercial and industrial properties and vacant parcels are not owned by West End residents. They are [...]
BUSINESS START-UP AND EXPANSION Updated: July 24, 2020 The Black community across Louisville and particularly in the West End needs support to create more jobs through business ownership. New businesses need to start. [...]
