The time to act is now. This is a thread on taking action. Members of the community and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement have been working since 2018 to get the Des Moines City Council to pass an ordinance that would:

- Ban racial profiling
- Prohibit pretextual stops (when officers stop a car for one reason but then use it to investigate something else)
- Make data collection and disclosure on all Des Moines police traffic stops mandatory

- Create a citizens' review board to review resident complaints
- Require implicit bias and de-escalation training
- Make marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority for Des Moines police

Resistance to a strong ordinance to ban racial profiling from some city officials has resulted in more than 18 months of work, but minimal results, leaving Des Moines residents at continued risk of being victims of racial profiling by police and increased violence.

The residents of Des Moines have already seen the costs of this kind of violence. How much more will we have to pay? https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/06/17/racial-profiling-des-moines-police-department-iowa-kyle-thies-jared-clinton-montray-little-settlemen/1460446001/

We need folks who love their community and want to protect their lives and those of friends, family, and neighbors to contact DSM City Council/staff and express our need for a strong anti-racial profiling ordinance.

We need community members to take this issue to the city now!

Here's the script:

We need to make nine calls today, to these people who have the power to move on a ban on racial profiling: