The Center for Policing Equity
Represent a Police Officer in Retaliation & Civil Rights Suit
Support officer combatting police misconduct
Posted April 16, 2024
Background & Context
Gender and racial biases are pervasive within police departments and can affect how those departments response to officer work and concerns. This reality increases the likelihood of discrimination and retaliation, which are both inherently unfair and may chill efforts by officers to report or intervene to prevent improper or illegal conduct within their departments.
Immediate Problem
An officer experienced retaliation after participating in a federal employment discrimination suit against her police department and after investigating alleged misconduct of other officers. According to the officer, she was reassigned, was set up by other officers to inadvertently violate department policy, and then was assigned counsel with a substantial conflict of interest to represent her in disciplinary proceedings.
Work & Deliverables
The officer obtained assistance with filing a complaint alleging retaliation, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, tortious interference with economic relationships, RICO violations and common law conspiracy, and other unlawful conduct. She now seeks an attorney to represent her for the duration of the case.
The Center for Policing Equity
As a research and action think tank, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) aims to provide leadership in equity through excellence in research. Using evidence-based approaches to social justice, we use data to create levers for social, cultural and policy change - specifically, CPE's signature program Compstat for Justice, (C4J) allows police departments to hold officers accountable to shared values of equity and justice. C4J analyzes data to provide feedback to law enforcement on the portion of racial disparities stemming from their behaviors, spotlighting neighborhoods, activities, and conditions that facilitate the greatest harm. By making justice measurable, we both reduce the temperature of conversations about race in policing and provide a clear path towards increasing public trust.
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The Center for Policing Equity
As a research and action think tank, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) aims to provide leadership in equity through excellence in research. Using evidence-based approaches to social justice, we use data to create levers for social, cultural and policy change - specifically, CPE's signature program Compstat for Justice, (C4J) allows police departments to hold officers accountable to shared values of equity and justice. C4J analyzes data to provide feedback to law enforcement on the portion of racial disparities stemming from their behaviors, spotlighting neighborhoods, activities, and conditions that facilitate the greatest harm. By making justice measurable, we both reduce the temperature of conversations about race in policing and provide a clear path towards increasing public trust.