Our Mission
The Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity (CPLE) is a research consortium that promotes police transparency and accountability by facilitating innovative research collaborations between law enforcement agencies and empirical social scientists. Through these facilitated collaborations, the Consortium seeks to improve issues of equity–particularly racial and gender equity–in policing both within law enforcement agencies and between agencies and the communities they serve. The Consortium aims to effect cultural transformations within both law enforcement and the academy by creating opportunities that simultaneously preserve the dignity of law enforcement and advance the application of social science to the real world.
The CPLE is committed to research transparency and, as such, does not charge participating law enforcement agencies for access to our expert researchers. To that end, CPLE researchers are never funded by participating law enforcement agencies and are able to render both expert consultations (for law enforcement) and scholarly publications (for the academic and general public) absent any hint of coercion or incentive. Consequently, the structure of the CPLE is, itself, an innovation designed to further the interests of transparency and accountability in equity matters.
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Areas of Emphasis
The CPLE has six areas of emphasis that were created in response to the equity priorities that are shared by law enforcement across the country. These areas of emphasis are:
- Racial Profiling and Police Use of Force
- Immigration Policy Enforcement
- Drug Policy Enforcement
- Organizational Equity
- Youth Offenders
- Media and Community Relations
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CPLE General Introduction-Click to Download
CPLE-Contract for Policing Justice-Click to Download
