The Law Enforcement Action Partnership

What The Law Enforcement Action Partnership does

The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 2002 by five police officers and headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts. Originally established as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the organization rebranded to its current name while retaining the LEAP acronym and broadened its mission beyond drug policy to encompass full criminal justice reform. LEAP's core function is deploying a network of 200+ current and former law enforcement professionals — including police chiefs, sheriffs, judges, prosecutors, and corrections officers — who serve as speakers, advisors, and media voices advocating for evidence-based policy change in areas including community responder programs, diversion initiatives, harm reduction, and sentencing reform.

LEAP's deliverables are policy advocacy, educational resources, and informational tools rather than technology products. Key outputs include the Community Responder Dashboard (an interactive tool tracking 92 programs across 31 states covering 58+ million residents and 200,000+ annual 9-1-1 call diversions), liability reports, dispatching guides, national policing recommendations, and a formal speaker bureau available across all 50 states. The organization maintains an international footprint through LEAP UK and outreach to Latin America, and has engaged multilateral bodies including the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Media reach includes Washington Post op-eds, Police Chief Magazine, and multiple documentaries.

LEAP's business model is donation-based: contributions come from individuals, foundations, and organizations, with an explicit policy of declining restricted gifts that would compromise its principles. The organization has no commercial products, no funding rounds in the venture sense, and no disclosed revenue. Its go-to-market is community-led, relying on the credibility of its speaker network to drive media coverage, legislative testimony, and municipal adoption of its policy recommendations.

Name

The Law Enforcement Action Partnership

Legal name

Law Enforcement Action Partnership Inc.

Website

https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

LEAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2002 that mobilizes a network of 200+ current and former law enforcement professionals to advocate for criminal justice reform, drug policy reform, and community responder programs targeting state and local legislators, police departments, and municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Criminal Justice Advocacy

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Other Social Advocacy Organizations (813319)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Criminal Justice Reform & Legal System Advocacy (BPAGAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Transitional Justice, Accountability & Reparations (BPADAGAL)

Keywords

• Criminal justice advocacy
• Drug policy reform
• Law enforcement outreach
• Community responder programs
• Police-community relations

Headquarters

HQ city

Medford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: LEAP operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funded primarily through donations from individuals, foundations, and organizations. The organization states it will not accept contributions with conditions or restrictions that are inconsistent with or compromise its principles.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization composed of current and former law enforcement professionals (police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials) who write, consult, and meet with advocacy groups, legislators, fellow officers, media, and the public to promote evidence-based criminal justice and drug policy reforms. The organization offers a speaker bureau, policy recommendations, educational resources (including reports on community responder models, liability, and dispatching), and an interactive Community Responder Dashboard tracking programs across the United States.

Product overview

The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a nonprofit advocacy organization, not a technology product company. It does not offer a software product, platform, or module-based portfolio. LEAP's primary offerings are advocacy services, educational resources, a speaker bureau, policy recommendations, and informational tools such as the Community Responder Dashboard—a free data visualization resource tracking community responder programs across the United States. The organization was founded in 2002 (originally as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and is led by criminal justice professionals who advocate for drug policy and criminal justice reform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Speaker Bureau
• Community Responder Dashboard
• Policy Recommendations and Reports
• Legislative Testimony and Advocacy

Quantifiable outcome

• 92 community responder programs tracked nationwide, covering 58+ million residents
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LEAP UKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLEAP has established a thriving UK branch (ukleap.org) that extends the organization's advocacy work to the United Kingdom. This international partnership allows LEAP to promote drug policy reform globally and share insights from different jurisdictions.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Drug Policy Alliance: The Drug Policy Alliance is a leading nonprofit advocating for drug policy reform and harm reduction—directly overlapping with LEAP's drug policy, harm reduction, and sentencing reform agenda. Both organizations target legislators and the public with policy recommendations and have overlapping donor bases in criminal justice reform philanthropy.
• Center for American Progress: CAP is a think tank producing criminal justice policy research; LEAP explicitly co-authored the Community Responders Model report with CAP—reflecting direct partner/peer collaboration on policy research. CAP competes with LEAP as a source of municipal-level policy recommendations and competes for the same policy-research funding.
• Police Executive Research Forum (PERF): PERF is a policing-focused nonprofit that conducts research on use of force, training, mental health response, and community policing—directly overlapping with LEAP's evidence-based policing portfolio. PERF shares LEAP's law-enforcement-insider audience and competes for policy influence with chiefs and city leaders.
• International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP): IACP is the largest professional association of law enforcement executives and the convener of the annual conference where LEAP was featured in 2022. IACP operates the Law Enforcement Policy Center and issues model policies relevant to LEAP's reform advocacy—functioning as both a partner channel and a competing institutional voice on police practice.
• Vera Institute of Justice: The Vera Institute is a major nonprofit working on criminal justice reform, alternatives to incarceration, and police practice—competing with LEAP for foundation funding and policy-research mindshare on community responder programs and sentencing reform. Vera operates Safer Communities, a portfolio that directly overlaps LEAP's responder/mental health crisis work.
• Brennan Center for Justice: The Brennan Center is a prominent nonprofit producing research and advocacy on criminal justice policy at federal and state levels—directly competing with LEAP's policy-research work and legislative testimony. Both organizations publish reports influencing legislators on policing reform, sentencing, and pre-trial justice.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL): NACDL is a membership-based criminal justice bar association that advocates on systemic issues like sentencing, drug policy, and policing—overlapping substantively with LEAP's reform agenda and pursuing similar legislative and public audiences. NACDL brings a defense-attorney insider voice to criminal justice policy parallel to LEAP's law-enforcement insider voice.
• Pretrial Justice Institute: PJI is a nonprofit focused on pretrial reform and alternatives to incarceration—overlapping with LEAP's work on diversion, harm reduction, and sentencing reform. PJI and LEAP share the same municipal-policy and foundation-grant buyer pools.

Broad incumbents

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The ACLU is a much larger civil rights/criminal justice reform organization with comparable advocacy goals—overlapping with LEAP on policing reform, drug policy, and sentencing, but operating across a much broader civil-rights portfolio and with substantially more resources. They compete for the same reform-minded donors and legislative attention.

Emerging players

• Reform Alliance: Reform Alliance is a high-profile nonprofit founded by entertainment and sports figures targeting probation, parole, and sentencing reform—directly overlapping with LEAP's sentencing and incarceration reform agenda. Reform Alliance competes with LEAP for celebrity-amplified, foundation, and corporate donor attention on criminal justice reform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PoliceForReform
• Facebookfacebook.com/LawEnforcementAction
• Instagraminstagram.com/policeforreform
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/law-enforcement-action-partnership

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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