Policing Reform Discussion via ZOOM

Too often police reform discussions in the United States focus on tactics that contribute to killings. Killings are only the tip of an iceberg of much more common daily interactions between police and Black, Latino, Native American, poorer people, and people with disabilities, that are coercive and often violent, even if they do not result in death or serious injury. Such interactions result in high rates of arrest and criminalization, again disproportionately impacting people from these communities, contributing to mass incarceration and devastating long-term consequences for those convicted and those close to them.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/12/roadmap-re-imagining-public-safety-united-states#

Is this correct? Is policing reform necessary or unnecessary?

Review Material:

There is a lot to read – therefore, suggest you simply scan the material. This is a large subject & we will only touch on it. But, should be a very informative discussion.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGjBsH88A_4x2ix2OdG51PVfebeIWUyq/view?usp=sharing (MAY NEED TO COPY/PASTE THIS LINK INTO SEARCH ENGINE).

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/reform-policing-what-makes-sense-and-what-doesnt

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/01/newark-cops-with-reform-didnt-fire-a-single-shot-in-2020-moran.html#:~:text=Newark%20Police%20officers%20did%20not%20fire%20a%20single,illegal%20guns%20from%20the%20street%20during%20the%20year.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/policycast/end-us-versus-them-policing-tough-road-ahead-reform

https://www.aclu.org/other/fighting-police-abuse-community-action-manual

Abuse Examples:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-minnesota-police-chief-describes-being-taken-out-at-gunpoint-and-prone-by-law-enforcement/ar-BB1fYzCB

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/video-shows-police-officer-punching-autistic-teen-in-face-don-t-make-me-hurt-you-more/ar-BB1g50zG

https://twentytwowords.com/grandmother-tackled-by-cop/

ZOOM LINKS:

ZOOM limits us to 40 minutes. Therefore, we have scheduled two sessions, back-to-back:

Session 1:

Time: May 13, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76213162184?pwd=TG53OElLUWg4a0p2U0MvS2pnSnJGUT09

Meeting ID: 762 1316 2184
Passcode: re48n5

Session 2:

Time: May 13, 2021 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75622996870?pwd=WFc5cHVtbDBhM285TGF3S0lycnp0Zz09

Meeting ID: 756 2299 6870
Passcode: ktPRi7