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 world-class 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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Project Spotlight
New Online Database of Prejudice and Conflict Resolution Studies
CPLE researcher, Betsy Levy Paluck, launched a new online database of prejudice and conflict reduction studies, a bibliography of approximately 1,000 empirical reports of interventions to reduce prejudice and/or intergroup conflict. The database consists of laboratory and field-based studies, examining interventions from priming to affirmative action policy. Please explore the website by clicking here._______________________________________________________________________________________
Police-on-Police Shooting Task Force
The New York State Police-on-Police Shootings Task Force was created in the aftermath of the tragic shooting deaths of two off-duty police officers in the State of New York in 2008 and 2009. Both officers were shot by on-duty officers after being mistaken for suspects engaged in criminal activity. Although such fatalities are rare throughout the United States, anecdotal evidence suggests that non-fatal police-on-police confrontations happen far more frequently. These mistaken identity incidents galvanize the attention both of law enforcement officers and of community members, particularly racial and ethnic minority groups who seek to prevent the wrongful or mistaken shootings of innocent persons. Yet, the law enforcement community and the community at large have not had the benefit of a comprehensive study of police-on-police confrontations.
The full proposal can be seen here.
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