"Many of the arrests created by the Providence Police Department are understood to be state mandated arrests by either the issuance of a warrant from a...
"We are identifying that there is an urgency to address the significant low vaccination rates within our Black, Indigenous, People of Color, our BIPOC communities, within...
"We know that teachers do not fit the demographics of the students," said Anita Bruno, who leads the Police Advisory Subgroup. "We know that teachers are...
"Locally, we lost a friend and loved one who was an organizer in Providence for several years, Tatiana Jones. Tatiana Jones organized with Project Weber/RENEW and...
On Monday, November 16 at 5pm the Providence External Review Authority (PERA), the only civilian police oversight board in Rhode Island, will be holding a meeting...
“We call on the PERA Board, City Council, and the Mayor’s office to support Director Batista in holding the Providence Police accountable for their violence. More...
“We’re here to be Jhamal’s voice in all of this,” said Bernard Tribble, Jhamal Gonsalves’ stepfather to Uprise RI. “We hope that people can come together...
“This review isn’t just financial. Certainly the numbers tell a big story here, but this is also going to look at the administrative processes,” said Providence...
“Police officers do not have the proper training, education and credentials to diagnose someone with a mental condition – and neither do these advocates. I am...
A debate over body camera footage at PERA’s monthly meeting shows that relying on the police department to cooperate with independent investigations may be a flawed...