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Appendix A: Perspectives from the Field
Appendix A: Perspectives from the Field
Pages 375-382
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These sessions informed the committee's deliberations and served as a valuable complement to the committee's other informationgathering activities and approaches. The Police Practitioner Roundtable and the Community Perspective Roundtable were held during the open session of the committee meeting April 4–5, 2016, in Washington, DC.
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Proactive policing reflects an expansion from the traditional bounds of policing, according to Commissioner Haas, and because of this expansion, it necessarily relies on community support for its success. Given the nature of proactive policing strategies, the police practitioners agreed that controlling crime while also enhancing community trust and confidence was a key goal and that the activities undertaken as part of a proactive policing strategy should be guided by community concerns.
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When choosing to implement a particular proactive policing strategy, the police practitioners noted that a number of considerations influence their decision. For instance, Chief Black noted that an ideal strategy would be fact based and data driven and capitalize on partnerships with the community and other governmental and nongovernmental partners.
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For example, Ms. Lee noted that proactive policing strategies that attempt to predict criminal behavior may easily lead to stereotyping of groups or neighborhoods, and Mr.
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Policing operates within a broader social context, and the community representatives stressed that in many of the neighborhoods in which they work there is no access to jobs, education, or affordable housing. They said that the communities where the questions about policing are most fraught are the same communities that have been failed by every other system in government and that these communities lack capacity, adequate resources, and support.
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Participant: Alicia Garza, National Domestic Workers Alliance Moderator: Phillip Atiba Goff (John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Center for Policing Equity) , committee member Ms.
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Packnett, police-community interactions tend to happen either through an incident that mobilizes activists and communities or through interactions between activists and police after such incidents have occurred. She said the former tend to occur as a result of unlawful stops or disproportionate responses from the police during lawful stops, with the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice falling into the latter category.
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She said that, for many individuals in Black communities, proactive policing tactics like SQF do not feel neutral, considering the disparities that exist throughout the broader criminal justice system. Individuals feel targeted because they are poor or because they live in certain neighborhoods, and to their dismay the government (as represented by the police)
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