Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️

DJP is a grassroots organization working to transform law enforcement, end mass incarceration, and seek racial justice in Denver since 2015.

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

And they call us crazy when we say that maybe we should consider abolition...

[Brian Maass @Briancbs4]

Affidavit reveals accusations against @AuroraPD officer accused of distributing meth while working:https://t.co/9kAsEOoqRQ

[Denver Westword @denverwestword]

Denver planning to expand STAR program, reducing police response to calls regarding non-criminal activities. https://t.co/WfH9BCatww

[Bring Our Neighbors Home ⚖ @BONH_Coalition]

📣ALL COLORADO: CALL TO ACTION📣

Take one minute to tell your State Senator to pass
⚡️SB21-062 ⚡️
— to protect the public, reduce jail populations, and keep families together.

➡️ Email them TODAY with this easy form letter:
https://t.co/4yvBgOjvCB

[🐦‍⬛ @funkinatrix]

CO Abolition Crew! COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION: Urge the CO Senate Judiciary Committee to support
✨SB21-062: Jail Depopulation✨

➡️ Email the CO Senate Judiciary TODAY 3/3 https://t.co/DA03gnli2J
➡️ Testify support in person or remotely on 3/4 at 1:30pm https://t.co/ABYclk30Qb

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

If HB21-1030 leaves funding for community responder programs like STAR exclusively the in hands of police & safety depts, it defeats the whole purpose of such programs - providing ALTERNATIVES to the police. This is not what our communities worked for. #defundthepolice

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

@McCluskieforCO @elisabeth Were any of the community advocates who helped make STAR a reality in Denver involved in the stakeholding on this bill? We just heard about it Friday. One would think the folks who brought this innovative, *non-police* model to CO should have been at the table from the start

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

@McCluskieforCO @elisabeth W/ all due respect, that's hardly a real choice. Most public safety depts are still dominated by LE interests - problem remains. The original CAHOOTS model has funding managed by a *community based* group, @WhiteBirdClinic, not LE or safety. This bill should prioritize that model

[Candi CdeBaca 😘✊🏾❤️‍🔥🌹 @CandiCdeBacaD9]

DPD is asking us to approve $2.5mil for DPD uniforms for a 3 year contract period. New recruits are allotted $10,800 per recruit for uniform expenses. 🧐 Even school kids have to pay for their own uniforms & supplies--why wouldn't officers pay for theirs? https://t.co/GKnXzGzvwB

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

If we're going to have #abolition, we are going to have to take more responsibility for ourselves and our communities. Sign up and tune to hear abolitionist leaders @prisonculture @deanspade and @ejeris break down what that can look like ✊🏾

[dean spade @deanspade]

Don't miss this event, Thursday! Excited to be in conversation about #Abolition and #MutualAid with @prisonculture and @ejeris. Live captions and ASL will be provided. Register here: https://t.co/Xf2SEWcLsm

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

What the @AuroraPD and DA Dave Young are doing with these arrests and trumped up charges of protest organizers is state retaliation for protests against police. Please support their legal costs if you can.

[Colorado Freedom Fund @FreedomFundCO]

Update: the 3 protest leaders still in Denver cage are members of PSL @pslweb.

We do not need $/donations for bond. Colorado Freedom Fund has it covered.

To support their post-release legal expenses, you can donate directly to PSL’s official fund here: https://t.co/h8C6QNhKs4

[Denver Citizen Oversight Board @denver_cob]

Did you know Denver is currently in collective bargaining negotiations with its Police Protective Association?

Bargaining began June 30th and lasts a maximum of 45 days. Negotiations are closed. Any agreement reached must be ratified by @DenCityCouncil.

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

Protest works. Keep fighting. #JusticeForElijahMcClain

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

Today I signed an Executive Order designating Attorney General Phil Weiser to investigate and, if the facts support prosecution, criminally prosecute any individuals whose actions caused the death of Elijah McClain. 

Executive Order: https://t.co/efmVp0mhGS
Statement below:

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

Join Haymarket Books and organizers from #8toAbolition this afternoon for a conversation about why abolishing the police and prison system can't wait.

More info & registration: https://t.co/WzQP4FbNu1

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

#Juneteenth reminder: slavery & involuntary servitude were never abolished in the US. They are still regular practices in the US prison system, which considers all inmates - people who are black, brown, indigenous, & yes, white - as property of the state. #AbolitionIsNotAMetaphor

[ACLU of Colorado @ACLUofColorado]

‼️BREAKING‼️: @GovofCO has signed #SB217 into law. Colorado becomes one of the first states in the country to END qualified immunity as part of this historic comprehensive police accountability bill.

[Denver Justice Project ✊🏾♥️⚖️ @DenJustPro]

We are proud of our state for putting these historic new #PoliceAccountability laws in place. Until we get abolition, there must be accountability #AccountabilityPendingAbolition

Join or tune in to the #Juneteenth celebration tomorrow at the Capitol

[Leslie Herod @leslieherod]

Very proud to announce that @GovofCO will sign #SB217, the Law Enforcement Integrity Act, tomorrow at 9AM! Watch live on his Facebook. Afterwards, join us for press conference 10AM on the West Steps. All are welcome for this historic event! #coleg #copolitics #BlackLivesMatter

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

#SCOTUS rules against Trump administration in challenge to decision to end #DACA program, which allowed noncitizens brought to this country illegally as children to apply for protection from deportation, holding decision was arbitrary and capricious