'Raheem' is a nonprofit NGO based in Oakland, California. Originally founded in 2017 as a means of reporting police officers online who needed to be held accountable, Raheem has evolved in 2021 to become an online community safety-focused alternative to police services.
The startup application partners with registered organizations, community organizations, crisis teams, and abolitionists to build a United States-wide network of response operators. The key differential between these Raheem operators and police is that Raheem aims to provide individuals in a crisis with care instead of force and potential violence.
Raheem is run by a team of mostly Black and Brown POCs who are experts in policy, research, and data science. With this expertise, the app intends on creating a more positive society through change and reform.
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What's Driving This Trend
- Community-led Safety
- Creating online platforms that connect communities with non-police safety resources and support.
- Crisis Response Networks
- Establishing mobile networks that can respond to crises with care and expertise, in order to support individuals in a crisis.
- Non-profit Apps for Social Good
- Developing and scaling up versionistaion apps that aim to create a more positive society through change and reform.
Who This Affects Most
- Nonprofit and Ngos
- Nonprofit and NGOs can participate in creating community safety and crisis response networks that can help solve the problem of under-policing in communities.
- Data Science and Analytics
- Data scientists and analysts can participate in creating and scaling up non-profit apps that create more data-driven safety and crisis response networks.
- Crisis Response Services
- Crisis response services can use the visibility offered by non-profit apps to better understand the needs of communities and provide support in a more timely fashion.
