Safety & Criminal Justice
(Click below for a list of Safety & Criminal Justice Resources)
Our Criminal Justice and Safety areas of focus. We work to:
- Reduce the number of youth in detention facilities/youth prisons in Harris County & the state of Texas by collaborating to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline through advocacy against exclusionary discipline practices and police presence and practices on K-12 campuses.
- Improve infrastructure to establish safe and environmentally sound neighborhood conditions in target communities.
Take Action for Safe & Just Communities:
Click here to join our Disrupting and Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline Issue Action Team and advocate to change Houston area ISD’s disciplinary policies and school-based policing practices.
Read our Criminal Justice & Safety Policy Briefs here:
2023
- Behind Bars & Beyond Safety: Addressing the Increase of Deaths in Harris County Jails
- Silent Suffering: Unveiling the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Houston
- The True Cost of Drunk Driving in Harris County
- Overcrowded & Overheated: American Prisons Face Another Wave
- Vehicle Break-ins and the Rise of Gun Violence in Houston
- Houston Extends Holistic Assistance Response Teams Program
- Lege Considering Bills That Would Make it Easier to Send Youth Offenders to Adult Prisons
- Bail Reform is Back on the Legislative Agenda
- Legislature Has Another Chance to Give Youth Offenders a ‘Second Look’
- Texas Teens Fight To Shutdown Youth Prisions
2022
- Close Texas’ Five Juvenile Prisons - Kids Don't Belong in Prison
- Issues of Environmental Racism Rampant in Houston
- Kids Deserve to Walk to School Safely
- Harris County Misdemeanor Bail Reform Shows (Again), Why We Should Not Detain So Many People Pretrial
- A Conversation about Juvenile Justice with the Earl Carl Institute
- Texas Prison Conditions Violate International Human Rights
- We Must Keep Bail Reform in Harris County
- Harris County Adopts Fair Hiring Policy & Safe, Accessible Sidewalks...in Houston!
2021
- “To be free, to be young…” Formerly Incarcerated Youth Imagine a World without Youth Prisons
- A Conversation with the Center for Urban Transformation, Protect Black Girls
- Harris County Jail Approved as a Polling Location, Crime Prevention & Neighborhood Safety Initiative Unveiled
- A Look at Criminal Justice & Public Safety
- "A roof over your head is the hardest to get" Conversations With Formerly Incarcerated Women
- Revolving Door of Incarceration, Texas Foster Care Crisis, & Bail Reform in the #txlege
- One year later...still so much work to do...
- No Justice...No Peace, Incarcerated & Infected
- Save Bail Reform in Texas
- Mass Incarceration is a Public Health Crisis
Click here for Criminal Justice & Safety Resources
Neighborhood Safety
CCPPI EVICTION PREVENTION RESOURCES MAP
This resource map was developed by CCPPI team members and interns to support the implementation of the Eviction Prevention Initiative and Resource Center established by Judge Jeremy L. Brown, Harris County Justice of the Peace for Precinct 7, Place 1. This tool provides a listing of several food, financial and housing assistance agencies available in and around (a few beyond) Precinct 7 boundaries as of March 2020.
MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE
Mapping Police Violence recently released their report which represents the most comprehensive account of deadly police violence in 2020. 1,127 people were killed by the police last year. Black people were more likely to be killed by the police, more likely to be unarmed and less likely to be threatening someone when killed. Click here to learn more and view the interactive report.
In Austin, Christopher Taylor, the officer who shot and killed Michael Ramos, an unarmed Black and Hispanic man, that began protests in Texas against police brutality (just weeks before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis), has been charged with murder.