What’s community accountability?
How systems of communal policing can strengthen and empower communities and reduce police brutality.
But its also not the only potentially effective strategy for redistributing and, ultimately, reclaiming power.
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Co-founder of From Privilege to Progress
Community accountability is hardly a new term.
For example, in 2003,INCITE!
So how can you practice community accountability in your neighborhood?
Co-founder of From Privilege to Progress
But the spirit of a self-policing safe space lives on with the idea of community accountability.
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And thanks to the internet, a lot of the initial steps can be taken at home.
At P2P we always say to start right where you are, says Saahene.
Create roles for group members that come along with tasks.
Delegating responsibilities and roles can boil down to a particular persons strengths, the play to your lane approach.
Someone who has office-management sensibilities can be responsible for organizing weekly meetings and documenting what was accomplished.
Black children and adolescents are more at risk for the mostphysically harmful forms of violence.
you’ve got the option to easily find these groups on most social media platforms.
Co-founder of From Privilege to Progress
But ultimately, the core of having a successful system is having compassion.
And all this can be done without demonizing them for what theyve done.
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