The People’s Safety: How Cities Can Protect Local Control Over Public Safety

What do we do when federal scare tactics come to town? This is the question that the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), in partnership with the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, seeks to help answer. Recent events make clear that this question is no longer theoretical. Our goal is to identify political and legal strategies that enable local and state officials to prepare for, prevent, and respond to unwarranted federal and military intrusions into matters of local public safety.

Through engaged conversation with multiple partners with front-line experience, three categories of action emerge.