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No funding for political policing!
For over a decade, CVE has targeted dissenters, Muslims, and other marginalized groups. It’s time to zero out the program.
Officials claim that the current iteration of CVE is designed to go after violent white supremacists. But the grant program still gives broad discretion to grantees to determine priorities, and the funding is going to police and community groups that address neither white supremacy nor violence. And the entire endeavor hinges on the mistaken assumption that ideology is a good predictor of likelihood to commit violence. Radicalization theory justifies surveillance and policing of political opinions by erroneously linking ideas to violence, leading to the repression of dissent.
We’ve been fighting CVE since its inception. Last year, we fought for greater transparency around the program and won. This year, we’re going even bigger. We’re pushing to zero out the budget for the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, the office that administers the current iteration of CVE, along with its flagship grant program, the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant. We’ve had enough of CVE’s radicalization theory.
This is an important fight, and one we believe we can win.
We’ve been fighting on the Hill to zero out the CP3 budget. We’ve been knocking on appropriators’ doors - will you join us?
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Dear homeland security appropriators,
I urge you to eliminate funding for the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) and for its flagship project, the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant. DHS has provided no evidence that these programs are effective in preventing violence.
Furthermore, the CP3 office relies on commonplace behaviors as indications that an individual is liable to become violent, which opens the door to profiling and reliance on stereotypes. Further, the office’s programs rely on debunked radicalization theory, which can have the effect of funneling people towards threat assessment teams, effectively subjecting people to surveillance on the basis of First Amendment-protected activity. CP3 and the TVTP grant have a clear detriment to impacted communities without providing any empirically-validated benefit to public safety. The budget for CP3 and the TVTP grant should be zeroed out in the 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations bill.
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