A public-facing dashboard planned by the Task Force to Reimagine Policing would show the number of crimes in a neighborhood, the number of traffic stops and how prosecutions from those stops turned out. It would be a barometer of how Black and Brown people are shuffled through the criminal justice system.
“The Denver Task Force to Reimagine Policing and Public Safety formed in response to the George Floyd protests as a community-led initiative to develop a comprehensive and sustainable community-based approach to policing and public safety,” according to a presentation Monday by Robert Davis of the Task Force to the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee of the City Council. “The Task Force was convened for the purpose of providing to the Denver city government and the Department of Public Safety a series of salutary recommendations and proposals that are informed, actionable, and sustainable. Over eight months, the Task Force collaborated with experts, activists, and city officials to develop 112 recommendations in the spirit of reimagining a public safety model that fundamentally prevents, reduces, and heals harm.”