Law Enforcement Action Partnership

Police-community relations

LEAP believes the key to improving police effectiveness is to go back to the fundamental principals of modern policing^[10] laid down by Robert Peel and improve public safety by increasing police-community trust.

Speakers advocate for solutions including treating officers for post-traumatic stress disorder; expanding police training and pay; addressing racial disparities in the justice system; abolishing stop-and-frisk practices; limiting police militarization to active shooter, hostage, and barricade incidents; ending civil asset forfeiture; and abolishing volume-based performance measures such as arrest quotas.

Incarceration

LEAP advocates for alternatives to arrest and incarceration as a means of reducing crime. They support reducing the use of mandatory minimum sentences, increasing the use of effective pre-booking diversion programs, increasing the use of restorative justice conferences, reforming the money-bail system, and reforming parole and probation systems. The group aims to reduce collateral consequences caused by arrest and incarceration, reduce racial disparities in sentencing and punishment, and reduce felony disenfranchisement.^[11]

Harm reduction

LEAP supports harm reduction programs, which reduce the negative personal and societal consequences of drug use, including Supervised Injection Facilities, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), heroin-assisted treatment, Medication Assisted Treatment, syringe exchange programs, expanded naloxone access, and treatment on demand. Until 2020 LEAP was the fiscal sponsor for the Influence Foundation, which operates the harm reduction publication Filter.^[12][13]

The war on drugs

LEAP pushes to end the war on drugs and legalize and regulate all drugs from a public health perspective as a means of reducing death, disease, and addiction associated with drug use and illegal drug sales.^[14]

Global issues

LEAP is dedicated to studying international criminal justice issues and practical solutions. LEAP looks to countries including Switzerland and Portugal for pioneering innovative drug policies focused on public health and safety.^{[citation needed]}

Speakers bureau

Representatives of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership are trained to speak with audiences and media outlets on behalf of the organization. They include current and former/retired police officers, military police officers, judges,^[15] prosecutors, prison wardens and other corrections officials, parole and probation officers, and FBI and DEA agents.^[16]

Activities

Media

Each year, speakers conduct hundreds of interviews with outlets across the country, including AP, Newsweek,^[17] BBC,^[18] The Washington Post,^[19] FOX News,^[20] CNN,^[21] The Atlantic,^[22] The Intercept, Reason magazine,^[23] The Hill,^[24] The Guardian,^[25] The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times,^[26] and others.