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October 2024

JOIN PCCEP'S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
TONIGHT, OCTOBER 23, 6-8PM

This week, the PCCEP Community Engagement Subcommittee will be continuing their work on PPB's Annual Stops Data Report. Members will be review and read through the draft of their Veil of Darkness recommendation, then discuss any changes or edits that should be made to the document. 

"Veil of Darkness" refers to a term and idea that was developed during a study completed in 2006 that compared the race of 8,000 drivers in Oakland, California, who were stopped at any time of day or night over a six-month period. The original study was inconclusive due to the small data sample, so Stanford University led a repeat of the analysis. They analyzed 95 million traffic stop records from 21 state patrol and 35 municipal police forces that were filed from 2011 to 2018. Their findings "indicate that police stops and search decisions suffer from persistent racial bias and point to the value of policy interventions to mitigate these disparities."

A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States | Nature Human Behaviour

Join us next week for our Full Committee Meeting
and special film screening.

• Full Committee Meeting
  Wednesday, October 30th, 6-8:30PM
  In-Person at the Portland Building, 1120 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR 97204.
  
  • PCCEP will be hosting a film screening of the documentary, "The Murder of June Knightly" followed by a discussion with journalist Robert Mackey, Forensic Architecture.
    
    

Trigger Warning:

This presentation contains material of a highly sensitive nature including (see below) that is triggering for some individuals.

• Gun violence
• Death

Who we are: PCCEP is a group of 13 community members who are independent from the City & Portland Police Bureau (PPB). We were created as one of the remedies of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Settlement Agreement to ensure community voice is a part of policing and public safety in Portland.

Get Involved with PCCEP

PCCEP's website now includes a page with more information on how to get involved in the committee's work, including how to watch meetings, give public comment during meetings, and give written public comment to PCCEP.

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