LA Peace Plan
This morning at City Hall, Urban Peace Institute released the LA Peace Plan, a transformative vision for community safety in Los Angeles for the next 10 years. The plan presents a comprehensive strategy to create lasting peace in the city, developed in cooperation with the city’s leading anti-violence experts.
Amidst unprecedented political turmoil in the City of Los Angeles, Urban Peace Institute and the Los Angeles Violence Intervention Coalition represent Black and Brown unity. We demand a revolutionary path forward to create safety and end gun violence.
The LA Peace Plan focuses on four key areas: public leadership, public trust policing, community violence intervention, and partnerships and collaboration to reduce violence. To build on the success and restore what has been lost, the plan calls for City leadership to do the following:
Public leadership
Establish a Department of Community Safety to compliment the city’s existing public safety infrastructure and to be on par with the Los Angeles Police Department to resolve our city’s safety concerns. Create an advisory commission that includes community and intervention leaders to partner the Department of Community Safety.
Community Violence Intervention
Increase violence intervention services to scale from 120 current intervention workers to 500, ensure workforce development opportunities, reinvigorate family-systems approach to violence prevention, and expand and reinvigorate the successful Summer Night Light’s program.
Law Enforcement
Scale the efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Safety Partnership Bureau focused on relationship-based and public trust policing.
Partnerships and Collaboration
Strengthen the Triangle Incident Response Protocol; develop a cutting edge, comprehensive evaluation and data-sharing system; partner with LAUSD and local schools; partner with local trauma centers and hospital administrations; and partner with county services and philanthropy networks.
The LA Peace Plan was presented on steps of City Hall today in partnership with the 20 organizations that comprise the Los Angeles Violence Intervention Coalition, along with Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson Assemblymember Mike Gipson’s offices, Homeboy Industries, Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Giffords Law Center.
