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Pradine Saint-Fort

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Uniting Communities Post-9-11

Tactics for Cultivating Community Partnerships with Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian Communities

To help local law enforcement agencies negotiate the cultural, religious, ethnic, racial, and language barriers that exist between them and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities, Vera has produced Uniting Communities Post-9/11. Funded by the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, this gu ...

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Susan Shah, Pradine Saint-Fort

March 12, 2015

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In Silence and in Fear

What “Baby Hope” Teaches Us About Immigrant Victims and Witnesses of Crime

Someone was empowered to speak up. In New York City, home to what many claim to be the most opinionated voices in the country, we often take for granted that people will talk—that they’ll share their stories, scream out during an emergency, and tell it like it is. But in the case of “Baby Hope,” it took two decades for someone, an anonymous tipster ...

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Pradine Saint-Fort

November 28, 2013

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Engaging Police in Immigrant Communities

Promising Practices from the Field

Today, approximately 40 million foreign-born people live in the United States, seven million of whom arrived within the past eight years. Because very little is known about how most police agencies nationwide work with immigrant communities, in 2010, Vera’s Center on Immigration and Justice partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of ...

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Pradine Saint-Fort, Susan Shah, Noëlle Yasso

November 13, 2012

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Budget-poor, community-rich

Policing in our new economy

When we speak of the economy, the discussion often centers on the continued loss of resources. Budget cuts, foreclosures, unemployment, and underemployment are pervasive and have become the signature trends in the new U.S. economy. These affect not only everyday spending but also indispensable services, such as those that law enforcement provides a ...

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Pradine Saint-Fort

September 09, 2011

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A new podcast for law enforcement on using the U-visa

Immigrants who are victims of crime and cooperate with police may be eligible for a U-visa, which grants them temporary legal status in the United States. Although many law enforcement agencies recognize the U-visa as a valuable policing and crime-fighting tool, most police and sheriffs’ departments still have questions about it. For example: What ...

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