Uniting departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
We are an organization of community members, police practitioners and career professionals building bridges.
Police2Peace is a national nonprofit which provides programs and training in community policing and community engagement for municipal police agencies of all kinds. With a diverse team and board members from the activist and police communities, Police2Peace works across the country serving both small departments and large agencies. For this reason, we represent the diverse stakeholders we serve.
Our mission is to unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
Our vision is to redefine, reimagine and advance policing on a national scale through the framework of police officers as “Peace Officers”.
Our goal is to transform 1/3 of the nation’s 18,000 police and sheriff’s departments serving 100 million Americans to Peace Officer in five years.
We’re focused on police culture change because the public is demanding a less aggressive approach to public safety, and dissatisfaction with the police in many communities remains high. We have grown over the last 5 years from the idea from introducing PEACE OFFICER wording on police vehicles and uniforms into the Peace Officer Promise Hippocratic Oath for policing and the online training curriculum Peace Officer: Realizing the True Purpose of Policing.
Today, Police2Peace is scaling the delivery programs around the nation that transform departments into peace officer departments with peace officer curriculum and technical assistance to operationalize the change. And we bring together police departments and the communities they serve through community-based programs for better engagement, police-based programs for training such as de-escalation, and peace initiatives which unite stakeholders around building peace in their communities so that everyone can lead their best possible lives.
Overseeing the programs and policies that inform our work
Community Advisory Board Member
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Corporate Board Member
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Corporate Board Chairman
Policing Advisory Board Member
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Executive Director and Corporate Board Member
Mediation Advisor
Technology Advisor
2020 and 2021 were defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, social justice movements, one of the most challenging political climates in U.S. history and unmistakable evidence of climate change with wildfires ravaging the West Coast. Despite this, the events of last year gave rise to new sense of purpose and much-needed hope for change, especially in the area of policing. Below are the foundational principles which make up our PEACE OFFICER philosophy. By attracting, hiring, training and promoting people who want to be PEACE OFFICERS nationally, the culture of policing can be fundamentally changed at the DNA level. The country can move into a new phase where police forces are consistent with what it means to be a PEACE OFFICER.
The Golden Rule of Policing
The PEACE OFFICER Initiative is rooted in this simple idea: The police as part of the community, and the community as part of the police. This rule embodies what it means to be a PEACE OFFICER: to prevent conflict; if there is conflict, help resolve it; diffuse situations; and aid the defenseless. By operationalizing what it means to be a PEACE OFFICER, departments can bring about cultural change, procedural change, operational change, and departmental alignment.
Co-production of Public Safety
By delivering public safety in ways that departments need to, while encouraging communities to reimagine how they would like policing to be, community safety is developed as a partnership. And for this partnership to work, it must be rooted in fairness, equity, accountability and transparency–the qualities embodied by PEACE OFFICER.
Employ Evidenced-based Practices
It is one thing to suggest that an approach will have a positive effect, and quite another to support the approach with evidence. Our programs are built on research which documents the interventions and outcomes. In this way, we as an organization and society will know that something as simple as the PEACE OFFICER initiative had the hoped-for impact on the community, department and civil society as a whole.
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Police2Peace is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit corporation formed to redefine, reimagine and advance policing on a national scale through the framework of police officers as “Peace Officers”. All donations tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.