Center for Innovations in Community Safety

CICS is dedicated to a modern vision of community safety that takes a broad approach to meeting community needs while reducing the harm of current approaches.

[Andrea M. Headley, PhD @AM_Headley]

Come work with @CICSGeorgetown and me as a Senior Research Analyst on community safety projects! https://t.co/rXytW2MMgT

[Policing Project @policingproject]

Last month, we held a convening on non-police alternative first response with @CICSGeorgetown for an opportunity to meet, learn, share ideas, and discuss the future of this growing field.

Watch it here:
https://t.co/7916du14an

[Policing Project @policingproject]

“A system of alternative first response represents a framework in which cities begin to respond to people with the care they need–not just the gun, badge, and handcuffs we have available,” said @TahirDuckett, Executive Director of @CICSGeorgetown.

https://t.co/I6PQUeufiv

[TIME @TIME]

"The shift towards non-police responses to mental health and other calls for service is a consequential one."

📝 @TahirDuckett https://t.co/0Nm6zoiyAu

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

@LawrenceGostin @Georgetown_Uni @oneillinstitute A great addition to Georgetown!

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

More from @Christy_E_Lopez: "The reports recognize that effective and lawful policing sometimes requires the police to step back." https://t.co/BEGd6bWlbb

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

CICS Faculty Director @Christy_E_Lopez examines the DOJ's evolving approach to its investigative findings reports. https://t.co/BEGd6bWlbb

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

Eric Cumberbatch challenging us to see expertise in lived experience and look for more solutions on the ground, rather than in academia.

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

We're live here at @GeorgetownLaw with 175 alternative first response practitioners, advocates, researchers, and funders for two days of deep problem solving on next steps for the movement

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

We need people who don't see respondents as risks to be managed, but rather people in need of care. - Amy Watson

[morris🇩🇪 🇺🇸🎖 @mo_mcgough]

“People are serious about redefining the role of police and what problems are better suited for other people to solve. We can’t wait for research - but we have to measure while we innovate - especially to look for unintended consequences.” @NIJDirLaVigne w/ @barryfriedman1

[Policing Project @policingproject]

@NIJDirLaVigne: “The true experts are the people who are living and experiencing the issues”

[Policing Project @policingproject]

Faculty Director @barryfriedman1 kicks off a conversation with @TahirDuckett and NIJ Director @NIJDirLaVigne on measuring and evaluating the impact of alternative first response programs.

[Center for Innovations in Community Safety @CICSGeorgetown]

"We are here today because we believe in the power of change. We want to build a community where alternative response is no longer alternative, but the norm." -Darius Baxter of @GOODProjectsDC

[Barry Friedman [email protected] @barryfriedman1]

Packed house ⁦@CICSGeorgetown⁩ ⁦@policingproject⁩ convening on building alternatives to police response. This work is the future.

[𝙳𝚊𝚗 𝙶𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚍, 𝙼𝚂, 𝚁𝙽, 𝙽𝚁𝙿 @DanielRGerard]

I’m at Georgetown Law as the @iaemsc representative participating with our friends from NYU School of Law @policingproject & the Georgetown School of Law @CICSGeorgetown on the Future of Alternative First Response: Building Sustainable & Scalable Programs - an incredible program

[Pere Ubu @PdxUbu]

At @CICSGeorgetown hearing the future of alternative response with @TahirDuckett, Moki Macias + team from Atlanta’s PAD, Raven Loaiza from Dayton Mediation Unit, Anne Larson & the CSG Justice Team, Laquisha Grant from NYC B*Heard, Elliot Jones of Oakland’s MACRO & 170 others.