Creating A Care-Based, Research Informed, Community Led Unarmed Response Program

The Coalition for Re-Envisioning Our Safety (CROS) is a coalition of community members and groups who came together to respond to the Resolution to ensure a process and program that is community led, evidence-based, and progressive.

We are multi-racial and diverse, and many of us are directly impacted by policing in our community. Among us are faith leaders, social workers/therapists, public health and healthcare workers, researchers, community builders, racial justice organizers and activists/organizers who care deeply about transformative justice and building care-based safety in our community. We fully support a non-police/unarmed response and have written an effective proposal that includes the following. We intend to continue working across Washtenaw County and not just one city; due to the specific resolution passed by the City of Ann Arbor, this proposal focuses on Ann Arbor.