CJ McCollum: Public safety and criminal justice reform go hand in hand
“Let me be clear: Public safety and criminal justice reform are not mutually exclusive. They go hand in hand.”
“Let me be clear: Public safety and criminal justice reform are not mutually exclusive. They go hand in hand.”
California is one of the few states without a process to prevent law enforcement officers who were fired for serious infractions such as excessive use of force or lying on a report from leaving one department and joining another…
I am the executive director of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition, which leads the NBA family’s advocacy work. But, in 2014, I was managing the policy portfolio of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice when Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot and killed by a police officer…
With pressure to change policing in America following the death of George Floyd while in police custody, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., sounded the alarm Wednesday warning that “time is running out…”
Growing up in England, James Cadogan didn’t see many people who looked like him. But one day in 1992, turned on the television to see the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He saw Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and the rest of the Dream Team dominating the world in basketball…
On the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the NBA and its Social Justice Coalition are urging the United States Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act…
On the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, the NBA, the NBA and WNBA players’ unions and a player-backed voter rights group have escalated their calls for the passage of the law enforcement bill that bears Floyd’s name…
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition released a statement Monday night calling on the U.S. Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act as a way to honor the memory of Floyd and “others who have been victims of police brutality…”
The National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association on Tuesday released a joint statement praising the guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd…