Police foundations should be part of the criminal justice solution

Under the guise of police accountability, social justice activists are trying to sever the ties between corporations and police foundations. Their efforts only serve to undermine police accountability and the beneficial community programs in which police foundations actually participate.

The online racial justice group Color of Change is reaching out to banks and large corporations, demanding that they cease donations to police foundations. Some, such as Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, have already relented. This is a mistake, driven by the false assumption that isolating police and police foundations increases accountability.