In 1993, PUEBLO initiated the Campaign for Community Safety and Police Accountability (CCSPA)
to offer a progressive alternative to overly punitive and ineffective public safety policies that have a disproportionate impact on communties of color. CCSPA  has secured significant policy reforms in the last seven years in the areas of police practices, public safety, and police accountability. These accomplishments include:

• Winning one of the nation's first programs to reallocate a percentage of police seized asset-forfeiture (drug-bust) funds towards community-based prevention programs such as job training and conflict resolution.  Nearly $40,000 has been allocated to such programs as a result of the campaign.

• Strengthening community accountability of the police by changing oversight policies in the Oakland Police Department and Citizen's Police Review Board for the first time in sixteen years. The Board now has subpoena power, a full-time investigator, and an expanded investigative jurisdiction.

• Winning a change in Oakland's "Risk Management" policy requiring the cost of police misconduct settlements to be paid by the Oakland Police Department, rather than the City's General Fund.

• Producing and releasing "Failing the Test: The Oakland Police Complaint Process in Crisis" in conjunction with the ACLU. The report was based on a systematic "test" of the accessibility of public information about the civilian complaint process in Oakland  and led to several reforms in the Internal Affairs investigative process.

• Providing assistance to victims of police misconduct including referrals for legal aid, incident documentation, and legal support before the CPRB.

• Working with the Chief of Police to change intake and public outreach procedures for receiving civilian complaints.

• Winning a successful effort to force the City of Oakland to set the terms of the CPRB in open, public meetings rather than closed sessions.