Communities United for Police Reform has decided to sunset its operations later this year.
CPR began as an experiment, bringing organizations across New York City together to challenge police violence and push for a new vision of public safety. Over more than a decade, that collective effort helped change what was possible. Together, we transformed the public conversation, won landmark reforms, trained and supported thousands of New Yorkers, and showed that safety rooted in dignity, accountability, and community care is not only necessary, but achievable.
Those victories belong to the movement. They belong to every New Yorker who faced fewer unconstitutional stops, had greater access to information about policing, and more power to assert their rights. They belong to the organizers, advocates, and directly impacted leaders who built this work together.
As this chapter comes to a close, the work does not. Former CPR member organizations and partners continue organizing for accountability and real community safety across New York City and beyond. We encourage you to stay connected, follow their work, and plug into ongoing campaigns and organizing opportunities.
CPR’s impact will live on through the people, organizations, and campaigns carrying these values forward.
We are deeply proud of this collective work, and grateful to everyone who has been part of it.
For community: This is not goodbye – as a coalition, CPR will create ways to honor our history together, including gatherings and opportunities to stay connected. Individually and working in partnership, many CPR member organizations are advancing campaigns that align with CPR's vision including organizing to remove the NYPD from mental health and substance use response and from schools, ensuring officers who have killed New Yorkers are fired and held accountable, making our vision of public safety a priority for the incoming administration, and more.
Please stay connected to the Arab American Association of New York, Audre Lorde Project, Bronx Defenders, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Popular Democracy, Desis Rising Up & Moving, Drug Policy Alliance, El Puente, Girls for Gender Equity, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Justice Committee, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Legal Aid Society, Make the Road NY, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York City Anti-Violence Project, New York Civil Liberties Union, NY Communities for Change, Public Science Project, TakeRoot Justice, and VOCAL-NY.
