Montclair Unity Walk fundraiser for Campaign Zero & We The Protesters

About this campaign

We The Protesters is a national organization focused on ending racism and police violence in the United States. Since 2015, they have built the a comprehensive database of police violence in the nation, used the data to identify effective policy solutions and supported movement organizers to enact these policies at every level of government.

Included in their organizations is Campaign Zero, a grassroots organization dedicated to ending police brutality in America by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.

Their goals are as follows:
1. End Broken Windows Policing: decriminalize crimes that do not threaten public safety, end profiling and stop and frisk policies, and establish alternative approaches to mental health crises.
2. Community Oversight: establish effective civilian oversight structures and remove barriers to report police misconduct.
3. Limit Use of Force: establish standards and reporting of police use of deadly force, revise local police force policies, end traffic-related police killings and high-speed chases, and monitor how police use force and increase accountability for use of excessive force.
4. Independent Investigations and Prosecutions: lower the standard of proof in civil rights cases against police, use federal funds for independent investigations and prosecutions, establish a State Special Prosecutor's Office for police violence cases, and require independent investigations for all police killing or serious injury cases.
5. Community Representation: recruit police officers who represent the demographic characteristics of their communities and use community feedback to inform policies.
6. Film The Police: require police body cameras and legislate/uphold the right to record police.
7. Training: invest in rigorous and sustained training and consider unconscious/implicit bias testing.
8. End Policing For Profit: end police department quotas, limit fines and fees for low-income citizens, forbid property seizure, and require police budgets to pay for misconduct fines.
9. Demilitarization: end the federal government's 1033 Program to supply military weaponry to local police departments and institute local restrictions to prevent the purchase of military weapons by police.
10. Fair Police Contracts: remove barriers to misconduct investigations and civilian oversight, keep officer disciplinary history accessible to police departments and to the public, and ensure financial accountability for officers and police departments that kill or seriously injure civilians.