Netflix CEO Reed Hastings donates M 1M to Police-Reform Research Group
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Reed Hastings, chairman and chief executive of Netflix, donated million 10 million to a research organization dedicated to fighting racism in American law enforcement using information science.
The executive’s grant to the Center for Policing Equity was announced Tuesday evening amid continuing nationwide protests over the death of Minneapolis George Floyd while in police custody.
“Great organization that has been working on this big issue for decades,” Hastings said Tweets Tuesday about his grant. Entitled “How We Can Make Racism a Solution – and Improve Policing”, from April 2019, he instructed people to check out the TED talk by Philip Atiba Goff, CEO and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity.
Hastings’ contribution to the group represents a small portion of its total net worth, currently estimated at 5. 5.24 billion for Bloomberg.
Last month, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quilin, donated বিল 30 million to the Gavi Alliance, a non-profit vaccination organization started by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gavi Alliance says it helps fund vaccination activities in low-income countries
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According to research by the Center for Policing Equity, black Americans are two to four times more likely to use force against white Americans when fighting law enforcement. Org says it has worked with more than 25 U.S. police departments on “data-driven interventions” over the past 10 years.
Policing Equity Center “Center for Polishing Equity” “We are very proud to support Freedingsstings for our work to reform policing.” Tweets Tuesday. “His $ 1 million grant will go directly to helping hold law enforcement accountable for the values of community empowerment and justice.”
The New York-based Center for Policy Equity describes itself as a “research and action think tank” that creates research to identify and reduce the causes of racial discrimination in law enforcement. U. of Stanford. The origins of the CPE, led by Professor Jennifer Lynn Eberhart, date back to 2004 at the Stanford University Policing and Racist Bias Conference.
Hastings has long been an active educator, and currently serves on the boards of several educational institutions, including the City Fund, KIPP, and Guard.
