Community Responders for Equity, Safety & Services (CRESS)

The reason for creating the Community Responders for Equity, Safety & Service (CRESS) department is to provide community safety services in situations that don’t involve violence or serious crime. It will create a civilian, unarmed alternative to calls that might otherwise require a response from the Police Department. The purpose is to ensure that any public safety response is anti-racist, equitable, just, and fair and that we offer preventative services that get at the root of assisting our community members to avoid necessitating public safety involvement in the first place.