Hosted our first candidate forum for NYC mayoral candidates during the 2021 primary election to gather leading candidates to discuss issues related to policing and community safety, and to address the tough questions about candidates’ plans for the NYPD. The forum was co-sponsored by Color Of Change, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Mijente, and Drug Policy Action.

Hosted our first forum in 2021 for candidates running to become the next New York City Council Speaker, to learn how the leading candidates might exercise their full authority in that role in relation to the NYPD, policing, and community safety.

Launched #CopWatchThePolls during the 2020 elections to gather information from the public about police presence, intimidation, harassment, and misconduct at or near NYC polling sites, after we received distributing accounts of NYPD expanded police presence at poll sites and intimidating conduct related to the election and in anticipation of further deployments for what NYPD called “expected election protest violence” in NYC.

Coordinated the #YesOn2 campaign, a public education and voter engagement effort that fought and won the inclusion of police accountability on the general election ballot, as part of the 2019 City Charter Revision Process. Building on the work of our sibling organization CPR and its members, Proposal 2 on the 2019 general election ballot was about expanding the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s jurisdiction to include investigating and disciplinarily prosecuting police who lie in misconduct cases.

Coordinated the development and introduction of the state legislative agenda in 2015 that included the Police STAT Act, which our sibling organization CPR and its members helped lead to victory in 2020. The law requires municipalities to report on low-level police enforcement activities and all deaths resulting from police action.