In early November,The Los Angeles Vision Zero Alliance submitted a coalition led letter to Chair Mike Bonin and members of the transportation committee on supporting their request for additional data for the Vision Zero Plan. The letter urges the committee “to hold LAPD’s Vision Zero enforcement efforts accountable to high community standards and establish protocols to mitigate over policing in low-income communities and communities of color”. The letter calls for the police to take an anti-profiling pledge and establish protocols to safeguard against racial profiling during enforcement in vulnerable communities. The letter highlights the Alliance’s belief that “Vision Zero policies should not justify the over policing of communities of color and the criminalization of low-income individuals, immigrants, youth, and transgender and queer individuals on the basis of creating safer streets.” The letter calls for the Committee and the Los Angeles Police Department to consider adopting equitable enforcement policies that prioritize education, build community awareness and end the criminalization of low-income communities of color. Read the letter here.
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