Reducing Racial & Ethnic Disparities
IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
NC CRED is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works across professional, political and ideological lines to identify, document, and develop strategies to reduce racial disparities in North Carolina’s juvenile and criminal justice systems. We aspire to be a model for the rest of the nation.
NC CRED brings together a diverse group of +30 criminal justice leaders and stakeholders who share a commitment to building a more equitable, effective, and humane criminal justice system throughout the state. Represented on the Commission are judges from District Court, Superior Court, and the Court of Appeals; Chiefs of Police and other law enforcement leaders; District Attorneys, Public Defenders, community advocates, and scholars.
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We’re pursuing innovative, empirically-based solutions to reform the criminal justice system.
The Commission envisions a criminal and juvenile justice system that is fair, humane and effective.
FORUM
NC CRED provides a forum for members to become better equipped to address racial disparities collectively and within their respective spheres of influence.
COLLABORATION
NC CRED serves as a hub of collaboration for a diverse network of criminal justice stakeholders.
RACIAL JUSTICE CLEARINGHOUSE
NC CRED promotes productive, data-informed discourse on race and justice issues in North Carolina. The clearinghouse works to provide an accessible source of reliable, credible and actionable data, analysis and research on race and criminal justice issues in North Carolina.
TRAININGS AND CONVENINGS
NC CRED works to engage stakeholders across North Carolina with resources and education aimed at equitable system change.
RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, & RECOMMENDATIONS
NC CRED develops and provides data, analysis and recommendations on the racial impact of proposed & current policy as well as research-backed analysis of the drivers and remedies of racial disparities in North Carolina’s criminal justice system.
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Students of color with disabilities are being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline
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“If I can convince people who ordinarily ignore the criminal justice system that continuing to do so is a threat to all of us, I feel I have advanced justice.”
Commission Members
- Daryl Atkinson – Co-Director, Forward Justice
- Chris Blue – Chief of Police, Chapel Hill Police Department
- Kami Chavis Simmons – Director of Criminal Justice Program & Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Jim Coleman – Director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility; Co-Director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, Duke University School of Law
- Stormie Forte – Ombudsman, NC Department of Justice
- Lorrin Freeman – District Attorney, Wake County
- Dennis Gaddy – Executive Director, Community Success Initiative
- Rick Glazier – Executive Director, NC Justice Center
- Dionne Gonder-Stanley, Clinical Associate Professor, NC Central University School of Law
- Jon Guze – Director of Legal Studies, John Locke Foundation
- James Hinson – Deputy Chief, Greensboro Police Department
- Thomas Maher – Executive Director, Indigent Defense Services
- Jasmine McGhee – Special Deputy Attorney General & Director, Public Protection Section
- James Moore – Chief of Police, City of Rocky Mount
- Melissa Neal Stein – Senior Research Associate, Policy Research Associates
- Raul Pinto – Staff Attorney, NC Justice Center
- Stephen Raburn – Executive Director, NC CRED
- Tonza Ruffin – Ruffin Law Firm, Halifax, NC
- Gerda Stein – Director of Public Information, Center for Death Penalty Litigation
- Christopher Swecker – Chairman of the Board, Governor’s Crime Commission
- The Honorable Mary Ann Tally – Superior Court Judge, District 12C
- Gabe Talton – Staff Attorney, Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
- The Honorable Louis Trosch, Jr. – District Court Judge, District 26
- The Honorable Gregory A. Weeks – Former Superior Court Judge
- The Hon. James E. Williams, Jr. – Former Public Defender, District 15B
- The Honorable Jim Woodall – District Attorney, Chatham and Orange Counties
- The Honorable Eric Zogry – State Juvenile Defender, NC Office of the Juvenile Defender