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Simon Balto (The University of Iowa) continued on the same themes as Ward, noting that police departments in the United States often grew directly out of or had significant overlap with other instruments of racial oppression, such as slave patrols.
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In her work as an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous people, Lucchesi said police have lied to her and misled her about their jurisdiction and responsibilities, and she has seen negligence and racism in policing that is systemic and not limited to individual "bad apples." While some place the blame on a confusing maze of jurisdictional issues, Lucchesi pushed back against this explanation, saying that "if you cannot figure out where your jurisdiction starts and ends, you are not equipped to be a law enforcement officer." Lucchesi also asserted that the underlying issue was not jurisdiction confusion or a lack of resources, but rather it is colonialism. One solution for improving justice in Indian country, according to Lucchesi, would be giving tribes sovereignty to investigate all crimes on their own land.
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and Rod Brunson (Northeastern University) presented their perspectives on police reform and accountability, focusing on how police departments, police oversight actors, and communities have engaged in efforts to address police accountability.
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Further, Vargas urged social scientists to investigate and address the root causes of crime and racial disparities in the criminal justice system, rather than simply looking at the evidence of "what works and what does not work." Observation as oversight Dennis Flores (El Grito de Sunset Park, NY) was involved in a street gang as a youth in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which he described as his community's effort "to make sense of the world that we live in." In the mid-1990s, members of the Young Lords Party brought the leaders of the area's Puerto Rican gangs together in order to stop violence.
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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES: REDUCING RACIAL INEQUALITY IN POLICING Throughout the workshop, speakers discussed approaches for addressing public safety both within and outside the criminal justice system, and how these approaches may reduce racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice outcomes. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM APPROACHES Role of police chiefs: LaGrange, Georgia It is the obligation of any leader of an institution to acknowledge the history of the institution, said Lou Dekmar (chief, LaGrange Police Department, GA)
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Racial reconciliation intervention: Stockton, California In 2012, the Stockton Police Department was dealing with understaffing, high crime, low public trust, controversial shootings, and protests, said Eric Jones (chief, Stockton Police Department)
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Research Martinez conducted found that police officers trust community residents even less than community residents trust police officers. Given these results, said Martinez, "how can we expect police to protect and serve the very communities that they are supposed to care for?
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In many cities, the biggest budget item is police; before last year, about 40 percent of Austin's unrestricted general funds went to the police department. After many years of community advocacy, the Austin City Council answered the call to reimagine police budgets.
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The public dollars spent policing people for behaviors that arise due to a lack of housing could be much better spent if redirected to the solutions, namely housing and services, said Kushel. Kushel offered a variety of approaches for addressing the homelessness crisis and its relationship to the criminal justice system, including: "ban the box" for employment and housing; narrowing public housing exclusions based on criminal records; providing housing for people exiting prison; reinvesting money from prisons into housing; decriminalizing survival behavior; and moving from a police model to a service model (e.g., diverting calls for mental health emergencies to a behavioral team)
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For example, in Chicago all high schools are mandated to have at least two uniformed police officers, while the school safety force of the New York Police Department is larger than Boston's entire police force. In her research, Shedd has found that while some students feel underprotected and want more police and cameras in their schools, others feel schools have become like prisons, with interrogation rooms, hall sweeps, and daily pat-downs and physical searches.
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To this end, speakers discussed initiatives -- including Advance Peace, Cure Violence, and The Mentoring Center -- that shift both resources and responsibility for public safety into the hands of the community. Shifting power means shifting control for public safety; communities need support to be the "authors of their own safety." COMMITTEE ON REDUCING RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Khalil G
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. Community Safety and Policing: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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