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Tab 17 EQUITY MATTERS: Charles T. Brown, MPA, CPD, LCI California Transportation Commission Meeting Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:00 am 10:30 am PST @ctbrown1911 Equity involves trying to understand and give people what they need to

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EQUITY MATTERS:

Charles T. Brown, MPA, CPD, LCI California Transportation Commission Meeting Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:00 am – 10:30 am PST

@ctbrown1911

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  • Equity involves trying to understand and give people

what they need to enjoy full, healthy lives.

  • Equity is the presence of justice and fairness within the

procedures, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems.

  • Facing equity issues requires an understanding of the

underlying or root causes of inequalities and oppression within our society.

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  • Which identities do you think about most
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  • Which identities do you think about least
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  • Which of your own identities would like to

learn more about?

  • Which of your identities have the

strongest effect on how you perceive yourself?

  • Which of your identities have the greatest

effect on how others perceive you?

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WEAPONIZED

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HIGHWAY ROBBERY: HISTORIC TREME, NEW ORLEANS, LA

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  • Who is most at risk?:
  • “Older adults, people of

color, and people walking in low-income communities are disproportionately represented in fatal crashes involving people walking.”

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  • Older Adults
  • “Relative pedestrian danger for
  • lder adults age 50 and above is

more than a third higher than the general population.”

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  • People of color
  • “Between 2008 and 2017,

Black/African-Americans were 72% more likely to have been struck and killed by drivers while walking.”

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  • Low-income Neighborhoods
  • “People living in

neighborhoods where the median household income is $36,000 or less were killed at much higher rates than their counterparts.”

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Somerset, New Jersey

Hurricane Katrina (August 23 – 25, 2005)

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Somerset, New Jersey

Hurricane Sandy (October 22 – November 2, 2012)

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Race Place Health

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GOODBYE LATER

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CALIFORNIA IS THE 16TH MOST DANGEROUS STATE FOR PEDESTRIANS

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WE ALL

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#1.

  • Distributive Justice
  • Procedural Justice
  • Interactional Justice
  • Representational

Justice

  • Care
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DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE:

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MAJOR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Most respondents (54%) do not feel that children are safe from traffic when

bicycling in their neighborhoods.

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MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: Nearly 1 in 4 (22%) feel they can safely bike to local parks or

trails from their homes.

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PROCEDURAL JUSTICE:

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Somerset, New Jersey

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Minority youth are not including in planning and transportation decision-

making processes.

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INTERACTIONAL JUSTICE:

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MAJOR TAKEAWAYS:

  • African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement.

Males reported being stopped at a rate 7x than that of females.

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REPRESENTATIONAL JUSTICE:

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MAJOR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Think about how often historical and cultural erasure takes place in

communities across the country

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CARE:

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MAJOR TAKEAWAYS:

  • Our systems are biased against women and doesn’t protect religious minority

groups.

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#2.

  • Anti-Racist Values/Culture
  • Racial Equity Action Plan
  • Equity Trainings
  • Equity Performance

Measures

  • Internal Equity Group
  • External Equity Advisory

Group

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GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: “TREES PLANTED IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES MATURE JUST IN TIME FOR GENTRIFICATION TO TAKE PLACE

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LOVE

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  • Charles T. Brown, MPA, CPD, LCI
  • Rutgers: charles.brown@ejb.rutgers.edu
  • Personal: charlesbrown@equitablecities.com

@ctbrown1911