North Carolina Commission On Racial And 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. NC CRED is dedicated to understanding how racial minorities are disproportionately represented in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The Commission provides a forum for open dialogue, collective problem-solving, information sharing, and education on the most important developments in racial equity-based criminal justice reform in North Carolina and across the nation. Through its committee work and research, NC CRED is involved in a variety of studies and projects related to pretrial justice, policing, bail reform, jury pool information, traffic stop data, prison population, School to Justice Reform, Juvenile Justice, and Raise the Age legislation, for example. NC CRED aims to be a repository and clearinghouse for information useful to stakeholders, decision-makers, scholars, and other influential leaders, as well as an agent for change. The Commission recognizes that, whereas racism and white supremacy is intrinsic in myriad systems and institutions throughout the state and nation, nowhere is the need to change that culture more critical than in our criminal justice system. Our work is intentional, deliberate, strategic, empirically-based, and challenging. Want to join us?