When Police Respond to Drug Use, Too Often Black & Brown People End up Hurt or Dead. It’s Time to Divest from Police Towards Humane & Compassionate Health-Centered Services New York, NY – In response to body cam footage released Wednesday of the April 2020 police killing of Carlos Ingram Lopez in Tucson, Arizona – […]
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Peaceful Protests do not Justify the Aggressive Overreaction, Militarization, and Attempts to Suppress Protected Speech and Assembly Washington, D.C. – Today, the Drug Policy Alliance led a coalition of national organizations in a letter to Congress supporting House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Crime Chair Karen Bass (D-CA) in their call […]
Amid explicit racism in enforcement and unprecedented budget shortfalls, NYC must redirect $1 billion of NYPD FY21 budget to impacted communities New York, NY — New York City criminalizes drugs and low-level broken windows offenses at a startling rate, with enforcement in these areas accounting for a vast proportion of the NYPD’s policing activities and […]
Substance Use Has Too Long Been Used as a Cover for this Kind of Degradation and Death Towards Black and Brown People Washington, D.C. – In response to appalling new details revealed by D.A. Howard yesterday in the killing of Rayshard Brooks—that following him being shot, he was kicked by Officer Rolfe while Officer Branson […]
Congress Must Give Us Something More Than Empty Promises Washington, D.C. – In response to Senate Republicans introducing their own police “reform” bill, the JUSTICE Act, Maritza Perez, Director of the Office of National Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), released the following statement: “To call this bill a ‘police reform’ is disingenuous. What we […]
Congress Must Finish the Job White House Failed to Do Washington, D.C. – In response to Trump signing an executive order today on policing, Maritza Perez, Director of the Office of National Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), released the following statement: “While we are encouraged to see the president is acknowledging the issue […]
We Cannot Meet Pleas for Justice with More State-Sponsored Violence Washington, D.C. – In response to the Trump Administration activating the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other paramilitary federal agencies to support police in suppressing the widespread lawful protests over the killing of George Floyd, Maritza Perez, Director of the Office […]
Law Enforcement Aggression, Assault and Killing of Black People, Using Drugs as a Cover, Must End New York, NY – In response to the unconscionable killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, where a police officer joked about not doing drugs as Floyd desperately pleaded to breathe, Kassandra Frederique, Managing Director of Policy, Advocacy and […]
Bill Provides Life-Saving Relief for Those Most at Risk, including Justice-Involved Individuals & People Who Use Drugs Washington, D.C. – With the House expected to vote on CARES 2 (“The Heroes Act”) today, Maritza Perez, Director of the Office of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, released the following statement urging Congress members to […]
Militarization of Law Enforcement, Fueled by the Drug War, Must End New York, NY – In response to the horrific killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year old EMT shot to death in her own bed by Louisville Police in what was a baseless warrant in a drug investigation, Kassandra Frederique, Managing Director of Policy, Advocacy […]
