Reimagining Safety – Film and Discussion

Sunday • March 2 • Doors at 5:30 • FREE • Wheelchair Accessible
Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz 

What REALLY makes a community safe? Filmed on an iPhone, Reimagining Safety challenges the idea that more police and prisons create safer communities. Featuring powerful voices like LA County DA George Gascón and USC Law professor Dr. Jody Armour, this award-winning documentary asks tough questions and invites viewers to see beyond traditional policing and prisons to explore what really works.

Change starts with conversation. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Director Matthew Solomon and Santa Cruz community members.

“Reimagining Safety” is an era-defining documentary. With the increased tension between local police agencies and the people they should be “serving and protecting,” many people have become disillusioned with not only the police, but the system they represent. Matthew Solomon has captured the angst and despair of the people perfectly, as well as offering solutions many have been afraid to embrace…until now. 

Register here.