Exposing the financial networks of law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations
Coponomics is currently tracking $1.5 Billion in funding to 4,506 law enforcement-controlled federally registered nonprofit organizations.
The Problem
Over the last four decades, law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations
- such as, police foundations, professional associations, fraternities, police unions, and other labor organizations - have built the political capital to engrain themselves into local, state, and federal government in order to perpetuate and expand an unaccountable system of criminalization, militarization, incarceration, deportation and violence. According to a recent report by the Urban Institute, this carceral system of police and prisons costs U.S. taxpayers over $250 billion annually.
The Impact
The expansion of the criminal justice system
has been largely fueled by an endless cycle of lobbying, electoral campaign financing, and media spending by law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations.
Despite widespread public support for police reform, non-police public safety alternatives, decriminalization, and increased accountability, the decentralized network of well-organized and well-funded law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations have successfully blocked, watered down, co-opted, or rolled back meaningful transformation of the public safety across the United States.
The Solution
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Exposing the financial networks of law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations is another step toward eroding their political power and ensuring communities can self-determine public safety priorities, approaches, investments, and oversight.
The public deserves to know who are the major corporations and philanthropic foundations who financially support law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations out of ideological alignment or corporate greed.
The Problem
Over the last four decades, law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations
- such as, police foundations, professional associations, fraternities, police unions, and other labor organizations - have built the political capital to engrain themselves into local, state, and federal government in order to perpetuate and expand an unaccountable system of criminalization, militarization, incarceration, deportation and violence. According to a recent report by the Urban Institute, this carceral system of police and prisons costs U.S. taxpayers over $250 billion annually.
The Impact
The expansion of the criminal justice system
has been largely fueled by an endless cycle of lobbying, electoral campaign financing, and media spending by law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations.
Despite widespread public support for police reform, non-police public safety alternatives, decriminalization, and increased accountability, the decentralized network of well-organized and well-funded law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations have successfully blocked, watered down, co-opted, or rolled back meaningful transformation of the public safety across the United States.
The Solution
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Exposing the financial networks of law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations is another step toward eroding their political power and ensuring communities can self-determine public safety priorities, approaches, investments, and oversight.
The public deserves to know who are the major corporations and philanthropic foundations who financially support law enforcement-controlled nonprofit organizations out of ideological alignment or corporate greed.
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