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 more than 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 and Superior Court; 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.
WHAT WE’RE READING
Weekly Digest #39
Enduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty
NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training’s Effect On Policing Unclear
Half of All False Convictions in the U.S. Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct, Finds New Report
Voting in Jail: How Advocates Are Trying to Expand Access
Duke’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice tackles criminal justice reform with $5 million grant
Weekly Digest #38
In the Shadows: A Review of the Research on Plea Bargaining
Study Spotlights Racial Disparities in Mass. Criminal Justice System
Harvard Law School Study on Racial Disparities
Driving while Black: Analysis of Traffic Stops Reveals Racial Disparities in Several US Cities
Duke Faculty, Alumni Discuss Involvement in Successful Challenge to N.C. Racial Justice Act Repeal
Police ‘Pretext’ Traffic Stops Need to End, Some Lawmakers Say
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Commission Members
- Daryl Atkinson – Co-Director, Forward Justice
- Chris Blue – Chief of Police, Chapel Hill Police Department
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Tarrah Callahan – Executive Director, Conservatives for Criminal Justice Reform
- Kami Chavis – Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Justice Program, 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
- Emily Coward – Project Attorney, Indigent Defense Education, UNC School of Government
- Robert Dowling – Retired Nonprofit Executive
- Stormie Forte – Attorney, Raleigh City Council Member
- 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
- Thomas Maher –Executive Director, Center for Science & Justice, Duke Law School
- Jasmine McGhee – Special Deputy Attorney General & Director, Public Protection Section
- LeAnn Melton –Chief Public Defender, Buncombe County
- T. James Moore – Former Chief of Police, City of Rocky Mount
- Marcia Morey – Representative, North Carolina State House
- The Honorable Ashleigh Parker Dunston – District Court Judge, Wake County District Court
- Raul Pinto – Staff Attorney, NC Justice Center
- Kristie Puckett-Williams –Statewide Campaign for Smart Justice Manager, ACLU of North Carolina
- Stephen Raburn – Executive Director, NC CRED
- The Honorable Vince Rozier – Wake County Superior Court Judge
- Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman – President, NAACP North Carolina
- Gerda Stein – Director of Public Information, Center for Death Penalty Litigation
- Melissa Neal Stein – Senior Research Associate, Policy Research Associates
- The Honorable Mary Ann Tally – Superior Court Judge, District 12C
- The Honorable Louis Trosch, Jr. – Superior Court Judge, District 26
- The Honorable Gregory A. Weeks – Former Superior Court Judge
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James D. “Butch” Williams – Senior Partner, The Law Offices of James D. Williams, Jr. P.A.
- James E. Williams, Jr. – Former Public Defender, District 15B
- The Honorable James R. Woodall – District Attorney, Chatham and Orange Counties
- Eric Zogry – State Juvenile Defender, NC Office of the Juvenile Defender