PJI Releases Third Report on East Baton Rouge

PJI releases third report on East Baton Rouge: Brutality in the Name of ‘Safety’: Baton Rouge Parish Policing and Tactics. The report examines the policing tactics that Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies have used over the past two hundred years and finds that their racist and violent methods – including aggressive arrest sweeps – have systemically over-policed and over-incarcerated Black people with no meaningful reduction in violent crime. This information in the report provides historical and factual support for community efforts to abolish EBR law enforcement agencies and to reinvest that funding into social services and local organizations that can address the root causes of crime. The Foundation for Louisiana supported this publication with a grant through the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Enterprise of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.