Civil Rights Rapid Report System (RRS)
NAACP
VENTURA COUNTY CHAPTER
UNIT #1053
Civil Rights / Human Rights / Police Misconduct - Rapid Report System (RRS)
Incidents of police misconduct are a grim reality, particularly for communities of color.
The NAACP's new Rapid Report System (RRS) will allow people to act and help advocate for change and greater police accountability.
NAACP's new RRS is a user-friendly, online form that allows victims or witnesses to send instant texts, photos, or video reports of police abuse to the Association via cell phone or computer.
Reports that are submitted via cell phone will be followed up with an email, asking for the witness to fill out a more detailed incident report from their computer.
Reports will be used to gather statistics, and advocate for policies and practices to combat police misconduct and create greater police accountability measures.
Public safety is a civil and a human right, this information will help the NAACP secure this right for everyone in the United States.
Those who report incidents and seek further assistance will be referred to their NAACP State Conferences and Legal Redress Committees, and provided a Resource Guide.
The Smart & Safe Campaign's mission is to ensure public safety for all of our communities and to improve the manner in which the United States administers criminal justices.
The NAACP will use RRS and other data to advocate for:
- Implementation of greater police accountability measures, and increasing trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
- Improving and simplifying reporting procedures for those who wish to file a police complaint.
- Creation of independent oversight bodies and civilian review boards with sanction and enforcement power.
- Creation / improvement of state Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) programs that are independently funded.
- Building relationships with law enforcement leaders in order to work together to improve police accountability and policing standards.
- Re-investment into community-oriented policing.
- Legislation to end racial profiling Diversion programs for the mentally ill. and low-level juvenile and drug offenders.
The NAACP has been involved in informing criminal justice policy since its inception: 1910, NAACP's first legal action in defense of a poor, African American sharecropper- Pink Franklin - who had attempted to protect his home against an illegal police raid.
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NAACP's work on criminal justice issues has had great positive impact - best exemplified by the success in helping end lynch mob violence, which terrorized African American communities for nearly a century.
We continue to be a leading organization in ensuring a fair and impartial criminal justice system by advocating for effective "smart & safe" policies.
Goal of Smart & Safe Criminal Justice Campaign: to ensure public safety for all of our communities and to improve the manner in which the United States administers criminal justice.
The first step in this campaign: an online Rapid Report System (RRS) for witnesses and victims of police misconduct - includes video and audio capability for better documentation.
Purpose: To help document and understand the scope of police misconduct and its impact on human lives.
- Starting with police accountability because law enforcement is the first point of contact for the community with the criminal justice system - a system in which African . Americans and other people of color are disproportionately and unfairly over represented.
- Additional criminal justice issues that have a disparate impact on African Americans and other people of color will also be a part of this campaign, including:
- Advocating for the implementation of greater police accountability measures, and increasing trust between law enforcement and communities they serve.
- Advocating for laws against racial profiling - because when police officers focus on behavior rather than appearance they catch more criminals.
- Campaigning for alternatives to incarceration for low-level drug offenders - because when we send these offenders to prison, we needlessly waste money, break up families, and often steer people into a life of crime.
- Promoting the implementation of education, skills training, rehabilitation, and re-entry programs for the incarcerated - to ensure they become productive members of society once they return.
- Advocating for an end to mandatory minimum sentences, which have a disproportionate impact on communities of color.
- Campaigning for the elimination of the death penalty, because it continues to be riddled with racial bias and other grave inconsistencies.
The NAACP believes there is great opportunity presented by the Obama Administration and new leadership in the Justice Department to move the nation towards policies that are "smart on crime" and will ultimately ensure safety for all communities.
NAACP....
Our mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.
The principal objectives of our association are:
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
- To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
- To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
- To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
- To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
- To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
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