LEAP is a nonprofit nonpartisan group of police, judges, prosecutors, & other criminal justice professionals who support evidence-based public safety policies.
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“Prisons are filled with our neighbors. They’re within our own communities and we should be treating them like community members."
Please watch & share: LEAP’s Laura Boesen worked in prisons, creating space for connection, dignity, growth -centering humanity where it can be lost
‘Censorship and Resistance: A Prison Banned Book Week Conversation’
Did you know it’s Prison Banned Books Week? There are many LEAP staffers who are booking on to these online events to hear more. Take a look and book your places:
events.haymarketbooks.org/ev…
Hosted by @haymarketbooks and @ACLU
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) retweeted
‘A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him?’
A dive into the corruptible world of the illicit trade and how exploitation is tragically inevitable.
theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
By @Narcomania
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) retweeted
‘How Psychedelics Helped Me Manage Grief From A Career In Law Enforcement’
“That challenged a core principle of my law enforcement programming. As a product of the War on Drugs, I believed all illegal drugs were dangerous and destructive.”
marijuanamoment.net/how-psyc…
‘Police need more tools than handcuffs’
“The recently announced proposal to create a Department of Neighborhood Safety is an important part of this conversation, but communities in Baltimore and across Maryland have been asking a related question for years: When police encounter someone who has committed a low-level, nonviolent offense, is arrest always the best way to make the community safer, or should officers have other options?”
baltimoresun.com/2026/10/13/… by Law Enforcement Action Partnership speaker, and retired Baltimore Police major, Mike Hilliard.
‘Methadone saves lives. Why does the system make it hard to get?’
“Redmond’s Liquid Handcuffs offers a rare window on the absurdity of many of the methadone restrictions. As she puts it, “In any other field of medicine, deliberately denying someone their life-saving medication as a punishment would be grounds for a lawsuit, disciplinary action, or license suspension.””
reason.org/commentary/methad…
By @HannaDersh for @reason
This is an overlooked and under-reported issue. U.S. soldiers have been active in Ecuador for a month and very few people know about it. This piece sheds light on the situation:
‘What Are U.S. Soldiers Doing in Ecuador?’
“Quito wants help in curbing cartel violence but demand for drugs persists.”
By @MaryAnastasiaOG
wsj.com/opinion/what-are-u-s…
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) retweeted
‘How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities’
“One way to measure success is to assess how many 911 calls a program is handling per capita, says Amos Irwin, who studies community response programs at the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP)”
npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-597…
By @meg_anders
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) retweeted
“There are all kinds of calls that responders can handle that do not have mental health on the surface. They call and say, there's somebody panhandling really aggressively here. There is somebody loitering around my store, refusing to leave.” - Amos Irwin, Community Responder Program Director for LEAP.
npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-59…
Something to truly consider. Limiting and banning one provision can lead to upticks in potentially more harmful practices.
"A 2025 study of Canadian sales data found that provincial e-cigarette flavor restrictions led to a nearly 10 percent increase in cigarette sales. A study of U.S. sales found that flavor restrictions led to about 11 to 15 more cigarettes sold for every e-cigarette pod no longer sold." reason.org/commentary/flavor… via @ReasonFdn
Just when you thought you’d heard it all, there’s a new way that the ‘drug war’ sinks its teeth into society.
‘How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program’
404media.co/how-cities-are-f…
By @jason_koebler for @404mediaco
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) retweeted
We celebrate the life of friend, colleague, law enforcement member, and former LEAP board member, Tony Ryan.
Thank you, Tony, for the many contributions you made to our communities. You will not be forgotten - may your memory endure just as your legacy will surely do so.
‘A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him?’
A dive into the corruptible world of the illicit trade and how exploitation is tragically inevitable.
theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
By @Narcomania
LISTEN!👂
Is there a different way to treat public safety? Unarmed 911 teams, or community responders, are gaining momentum across the U.S.
Law Enforcement Action Partnership’s Program Director, Community Responders, Amos Irwin spoke to @NPR this week to explain more.
Hear or read the full segment: n.pr/47y1REh
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‘Psychedelic crisis training coming to first responders across Colorado’
“Training seeks to equip police and emergency medical pros with harm reduction tools to reduce unnecessary arrests, hospitalizations”
denverpost.com/2026/05/12/co…
There’ll be many who see this as a wonderful act of common sense:
‘Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge’
‘Judge says DULF founders 'selflessly' put their lives on hold during public health emergency’
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…
“There are all kinds of calls that responders can handle that do not have mental health on the surface. They call and say, there's somebody panhandling really aggressively here. There is somebody loitering around my store, refusing to leave.” - Amos Irwin, Community Responder Program Director for LEAP.
npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-59…
“El británico Neil Woods, expolicía encubierto e integrante de Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), pasó años infiltrado en organizaciones dedicadas al tráfico de drogas. LEAP fue fundada en 2002 por miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad que comenzaron a cuestionar la prohibición a partir de su trabajo aplicando las leyes de drogas y hoy reúne también a fiscales, jueces y otros profesionales del sistema penal que impulsan reformas en política de drogas y justicia criminal.
“La guerra contra las drogas ha cambiado lo que se suponía que debía ser la labor policial”, señala Woods en su respuesta a MATE. Según su análisis, esa guerra enfrentó a la policía con las comunidades mientras las organizaciones criminales aprendían a adaptarse a cada nueva forma de persecución. “Esto ha generado una corrupción inconmensurable y está destruyendo a la policía desde adentro”, advierte.””
revistamate.com.ar/corrupcio…
English translation:
“The British Neil Woods, a former undercover police officer and a member of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), spent years infiltrating organisations dedicated to drug trafficking. LEAP was founded in 2002 by members of the security forces who began to question the ban from their work applying drug laws and today also brings together prosecutors, judges and other criminal system professionals who promote reforms in drug policy and criminal justice.
"The war on drugs has changed what police work was supposed to be," Woods said in his response to MATE. According to his analysis, that war pitted the police against the communities as criminal organisations learned to adapt to each new form of persecution. "This has generated immeasurable corruption and is destroying the police from within," he warns.”
revistamate.com.ar/corrupcio…
‘How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities’
“One way to measure success is to assess how many 911 calls a program is handling per capita, says Amos Irwin, who studies community response programs at the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP)”
npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-597…
By @meg_anders
‘How Psychedelics Helped Me Manage Grief From A Career In Law Enforcement’
“That challenged a core principle of my law enforcement programming. As a product of the War on Drugs, I believed all illegal drugs were dangerous and destructive.”
marijuanamoment.net/how-psyc…