The American Bar Association Racial Justice Improvement Project (RJIP) aims to identify and reform policies and practices that produce racial disparities in local criminal justice systems across the country. By working with officials in state and local criminal justice systems, RJIP attempts to address racial disparities by developing and implementing evidence-based policy reforms throughout the adjudication process where policies and practices have an adverse impact on people of color. While many jurisdictions have formed criminal justice coordinating committees, RJIP is unique in that it facilitates collaboration among criminal justice officials who otherwise would not (or do not) usually engage or cooperate, and RJIP emphasizes a unified solution to addressing data-identified racial disparities. The creation of standing racial justice task forces, such as those fostered under RJIP, are proven-effective initiatives that ensure local jurisdictions make a sustained institutional commitment to racial justice reform.
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