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PROJECT: Safe Cities
RESEARCH: Mapping Police Violence: For the First Time in Six Years, Police Violence Declined in 2025
Active Campaigns
Our campaigns address one or more parts of our policy solutions framework.
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Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinances are harmful housing policies.
End “Excited Delirium”, a medically-baseless concept.
End Qualified Immunity that protects the police from civil liability.
Rikers In Crisis, Federal Receivership is the only solution.
Cancel ShotSpotter, technology leading to more police encounters.
Data Highlights
Our research is at the core of what we do. The data guides our efforts and helps determine our priorities.
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Police killed 1,314 people in 2025, the first decline in six years. (As of February 2026)
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Police union contracts collected and began coding to make publicaly avaialble
Nix the 6340+
Cities who restricted use of force policies since June 2020
8 Can’t Wait6
States restricted the use of no-knock raids
End All No Knocks1
State has repealed its law enforcement officers "bill of rights"
Nix the 6Law enforcement agencies across the US have struggled to hold their officers accountable for misconduct.
Research Brief
Exploratory Analysis of Nix The 6 Law Enforcement Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)
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The American Prospect: We Don’t Know How Many People Have Been Harmed by ICE
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month shocked the nation. But here’s what should alarm us even more: we have no idea how many similar incidents have occurred. In 2026, the United States still has no federal law requiring law enforcement agencies—including ICE—to report when they use…
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Introducing the Safe Cities Project
For decades, America has measured public safety all wrong. We’ve treated it like a scoreboard—counting arrests, tracking crime rates, and equating bigger police budgets with safer communities. But those numbers don’t tell the real story—they reflect a culture of fear and punishment rather than the reality of community safety. Real safety is freedom from fear—fear…