The New Blue Project

The New Blue Project’s mission is to repair the broken relationship between communities and the police. We find, develop, and support our nation’s most promising leaders to expand representative leadership in communities across the nation. Through employing community oriented policing and procedural justice, our officers have a profound impact on their communities and join our network of equity-minded leaders shaping the future of public service.

Our recruits are awarded a $15,000 academy stipend or educational scholarship, become certified Law Enforcement officers in NC and engage in lifelong leadership development. Through their initial service, our leaders gain context, clarity, and conviction to lead meaningful change in the law, political and public sectors. 

We Identify and Train Diverse Leaders. We recruit diverse veterans who are representative of the communities we serve. These recruits take part in our advanced academy where they learn from a data informed curriculum and gain expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DEI) as well as community-oriented policing theory (COP). We plan to welcome 10 extraordinary leaders to our first academy class in January 2022. 

We Advance Leadership and Guide Socialization. We place our veterans in accredited agencies that value community-oriented policing practices. Our leaders are expected to go above and beyond the traditional expectations of police- they initiate community-oriented tactics, support community programs and organizations, and foster community trust through genuine relationship building. Our recruits gain context and clarity into systemic injustices while producing innovative solutions to the community level problems they encounter. Alongside their Chiefs, our leaders regularly share solutions at New Blue cross-department convenings to foster further peer-to-peer and institutional learning. We reinforce guardian culture through ongoing training, 1:1 coaching, and group conversations in our recruits initial and most formative years.  

We Support Career Trajectories and Leadership. Upon completion of their second year of service, our veterans become ambassadors and stewards of our mission. Through executive coaching and formal scholarships we position them to become Council Members, Mayors, Senators, Sheriffs; positions that influence the law enforcement system. In these careers of elected and non-elected leadership, our ambassadors directly address the systemic inequities they identified while in-service while further advancing our core values.

Email our with questions or if you want to learn more

andy@newblueproject.org or brittany@newblueproject.org

Visit out website www.newblueproject.org

Apply for our academy assistance- www.newblueproject.org/leadwithus