The Model and the Black Lens - Police and Community Engagement Model (PACE) and the Black Lens

• In Event: Halfway There Far to Go All at Once: Reimagining Policing, Making Baltimore Neighborhoods Safe and Strong

Abstract

Before the Build and Broaden Team, there was the Police and Community Engagement Model (PACE) and before PACE there was the Black lens. In this paper the original PACE model collaborators and the editor and contributors for the Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People book describe how their lenses are catalysts for stronger and safer neighborhoods. Their perspectives are measurable components for 1. a community safety mandate and 2. lessening the deleterious impact of the original law enforcement and crime control mandate in anomic neighborhoods. The realities of white supremacy/ colonialism are discussed as it relates to the historical characterizations of policing in predominantly Black communities.

Authors

• Natasha C. Pratt-Harris, Morgan State University

• Kevin Daniels, Morgan State University

• Paul Archibald, CUNY College of Staten Island