The National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice (NI) was a project funded by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2014 to improve relationships and increase trust between communities and police. In addition, the NI sought to advance the public and scholarly understandings of the issues contributing to those relationships. The NI consisted of three pillars: Procedural Justice, Implicit Bias, and Police-Community Reconciliation, based on the framework of the National Network for Safe Communities.
In August 2019, the Urban Institute published an evaluation of the NI. Public opinion surveys conducted by the Urban Institute demonstrated that procedural justice and implicit bias training, when combined with frank engagements between communities and police that address past and present harm and inform policy and practice changes, improve police-community relations. The outcome of the NI is a successful framework to increase police legitimacy, which is a key element in improving public safety.
Click here for the Urban Institute’s evaluation of the National Initiative and its impact
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