Md. Imran Wahab’s Post

So appreciate what Catholic Mobilizing Network is doing in lifting up very different voices who deeply understand restorative principles, practices and justice. I highly recommend this episode if you care about doing justice and public safety better!

Funded by the Annual Grant Cycle from the AAA-ICDR Foundation, Roca, Inc.'s Rewire4 program is making significant strides in advancing effective policing. By training over 5,000 police and corrections officers, this initiative utilizes brain science and trauma-informed conflict resolution to enhance officers’ engagement with young people and improve community relations. Recently, Roca shared the results of the first stage of an 18-month evaluation, featuring insights from a panel of experts. Learn more about the impact of Rewire4 in the Foundation blog: https://bit.ly/4fLGGB6

Friends, brothers and sisters in blue, please learn about or revisit this seminal document appraising 21st century policing. There is a lot of information about valuable long standing and meaningful long trending policing areas of interest. https://lnkd.in/d4Kuw7TY

⚖️ Access to justice for all, remains a top priority for justice systems around the world. 🎤 Hear from our Head of Insight, Luc Altmann, as he discusses how we are playing a leading global role to support accessible justice. Listen now 👇 https://lnkd.in/eUHrqt-4

Moki Macias, executive director of Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative, discusses the long negotiation battle to secure PAD's contract with Atlanta to continue answering 311 calls. (You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gf-aP6TG)

On this web page, https://lnkd.in/gvqSFj9E, you'll now learn about by my ten (10) years of service with two local police departments on Long Beach Island, NJ, through their ocean-rescue units. As I shared with Katie Porter's attorney, Jerry Singleton today and others, that is "public service" with a capital "P" and is not about "compensation" or "fame" or "followers."

🎧 New Podcast! [Global Effort: Ensuring justice for all] introduces the OECD and HMCTS’s collaborative paper, "Measuring and Improving Access to Justice in Court Services: Learning from the United Kingdom’s Experience”. 🔍 What’s in? 🔸Key insights from the paper, including a framework to identify barriers, design solutions, and monitor progress in court services. 🔸Takeaways from the OECD Global Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice 🔸Real-world examples from UK court reforms, such as improvements in services like divorce and immigration tribunals. 🔸Evidence of improved access to justice in the UK, highlighting the impact of people-centred, data-driven approaches. 💡Ready to learn more? Listen now and learn how evidence-based approaches are reshaping justice systems here: https://lnkd.in/eeqH_-zf Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/ecai94Vq Luc Altmann Alejandro Ponce Ariel De la Maza Mariane Piccinin Barbieri Tatyana Teplova, PhD 

"The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser (OPCSA) have recently published the first edition of UK Policing’s Areas of Research Interest (ARIs), which can be found here: Policing Areas of Research Interest (science.police.uk). These ARIs capture priority science, technology, analysis and research challenges that if addressed will help to significantly improve policing performance." "Crime prevention The ability to understand and respond to drivers and inhibitors of crime, including crowd management, public trust, mental health and wellbeing Personal safety The ability to protect our workforce and members of the public through e.g., body-warn equipment, location resilience, less lethal weapons Mobility The ability to move to/from locations quickly to prevent, detect, or respond; access difficult locations safely to maximise intelligence and minimise risk Identification and tracing The ability to trace, attribute, and confirm the identity of a person, location, activity, etc., to evidential levels, such as tracing missing persons Surveillance and sensing The ability to lawfully monitor and collect data from people, activity, movements, behaviours, objects and data overtly and covertly Analytics The ability to synthesise information to draw insights that can lead to actionable decisions, often in combination with other information and at scale Interconnectivity The ability to pass information quickly, accurately, and securely, and the ability to intercept or disrupt communications of others "

Thought provoking week at Cambridge University with an input from Sir Mark Rowley about current challenges in policing, followed by a panel discussion with  Sir Andy Marsh QPM,  Gavin Stephens QPM, Rick Muir and Lawrence Sherman. Interesting debate on reform and the future of Policing.

Another great article posted by the Director of Second Look Network at The Sentencing Project regarding use of clemency powers to address excessive sentences. The number of older people in State & Federal prisons is increasing faster than any other age group. How could anyone claim that the point of incarceration was to incapacitate the truly dangerous when there are more people older than 55 in US prisons than there are people in high crime range of 18-24? Geriatric healthcare in prison is both disgraceful and expensive. It costs on average, 3x more to incarcerate an older person than a younger one. National survey data according to the Prison Policy Initiative show that most victims support violence prevention, social investment, and alternatives to incarceration that address the root causes of crime, not more investment in carceral systems that cause more harm. Governor Andy Beshear could help alleviate the excessive costs mass incarceration has incurred on Kentucky as a proponent for second chances, and providing additional resources to protect public education and access to affordable healthcare-basic rights to the citizens of the Commonwealth. #SecondLookLaws #KyFreeKarenBrown