Who We Are & What We Stand For
Unlocking Safety promotes equity and racial justice through science by providing data-driven resources to the community, law enforcement, and elected leaders. This allows us to co-create the tools needed to make informed decisions and take audacious steps toward improved policing.
Who We Work With
What We Do
At Unlocking Safety, we gather and analyze data on behaviors within public safety systems and use that data to help communities achieve safer policing outcomes.
We partner
with
Community
We look to communities to define what safety truly means in the places they live, work, and play. Our efforts aim to open the dialogues needed to build maps to equity. Through community-led engagement, we facilitate necessary conversations to identify and name problems, capture potential, and co-create science-backed solutions. Change is happening, and we need to lay out the possibilities.
we Shape
Policy
Dedicated public servants across the country continue to lay the groundwork for substantial policy change that creates pathways to progress nationwide. Unlocking Safety connects elected leaders and other officials to the information, data, and resources needed to lead collective action toward achieving racial justice and equity in public safety.
we Engage
with Law Enforcement
Unlocking Safety is home to former law enforcement leaders and officers dedicated to building bridges. We use our decades of experience in law enforcement agencies to collaborate with agencies interested in science-backed explorations of equity solutions. Sharing our findings is often only the first step in our relationship.
Data By-The-Numbers
Justice Navigators Assessments Completed
Public Roll outs Events have taken place
Data Gap Analyses Completed
Police Departments have utilized our partnerships and interventions
Issue Areas
To shed light on topics of interest, we conduct original policy research and dive deep into policy literature, community recommendations, law enforcement experience, and our own data to develop actionable policy solutions.
Partners and Allies
