My Brother's Keeper Alliance
First Steps: Police Accountability and Reforms
Reimagining Policing: Police Accountability and Reforms
As the first of an ongoing workshop series to engage community leaders to address police violence, MBK Alliance Executive Director Michael Smith joined President and CEO of the Leadership Conference and The Education Fund Vanita Gupta, Co-founder and CEO
Reimagining Policing Workshop Series
This virtual workshop, the first of a three-part series hosted in partnership with Cities United and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, provided educational tools and analysis on the spectrum of policing and public safety options, alternative public safety models, and community-centered review processes.
Panelists
Ronald L. Davis, Executive Director
President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD, Co-founder and CEO
Center for Policing Equity, John Jay College
Vanita Gupta, President and CEO
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Changa Higgins, Dallas Policing Campaign Manager
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Lynda Garcia, Moderator and Policing Campaign Director
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
“You can have all the best policies on the books, but policy culture eats policy for lunch. And so without training at the front end and accountability at the back end, none of these policies will make a difference.”
—Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
“There's still structural racism in law enforcement. It’s not an indictment on your officers; it’s an indictment on a system of which they're operating. That truth is very critical to moving forward.”
—Ronald L. Davis, former executive director of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
“Make sure that in responding to the passions of your community, that you understand that the community deserves a plan.”
—Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity
“You have to have a community-driven, community-created plan that says what happens next, says how those funds will be allocated, that has real teeth with the community.”
—Changa Higgins, Dallas Policing Campaign Manager at the Leadership Conference Education Fund
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