Transcripts For CSPAN Hearing On Electronic Privacy Reforms 20150920

You cannot expect to get a good job with less than a ged. Bill cosby says that kids tend to be educated at the level of their participation. I have a black friend who lives a couple blocks from mcdonald. He has a highly motivated young boy who wants to get a job, he cant get a job. A lot of people when they think of illegals, they think of hispanics, but the asians are coming in here and they tend to be more educated. Host we got you. Do you want to chime in on that . Guest quality education was poll. He ball we absolutely care about education. We need to be able to make our kids more comparative competitive in this very competitive environment. Host the poll, by the way, essence magazine does have it on its website. It is a joint effort between essence magazine and the National Coalition of black civic participation. You heard from Vanessa Deluca of that magazine and me w about Health Insurance coverage as always, we take your calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live every day at 7 a. M. Eastern. Number 759, the petitioner. The most famous case this court ever decided. Existed here,et where slavery was not legally recognized. Putting brown versus education and effect would take the courage of children. Cases thated to pick change the court can decide. And also changed society. So she told them they would have to have a search. And she demanded to see the patriot. Which they refuse to do, so she grabbed it out of his hands to look at it. Thereafter, the Police Officer handcuffed her. I cannot imagine a better way to bring the constitution to life than by telling the human stories behind Great Supreme Court cases. The forced interment of japaneseamericans during world war ii. After being convicted for failure to report for relocation, he took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Quite often, and many of our most famous decisions, they are ones that were quite unpopular. If you have to pick one freedom that was our most essential to the functioning of the democracy, the freedom of speech. Let us go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 Million People who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Landmark cases, and expiration of 12 historic Supreme Court decisions, and the human stories behind them. A new series on cspan produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Debuting monday, october 5. It is a companion to the new series, landmark cases the book. It features the 12 cases we have selected, with a brief introduction into the background, highlights, and impact of each case. Written by veteran Supreme Court byrnalists, and published Congressional Quarterly press. It is available for 8. 95 plus shipping and handling. Get your copy at cspan. Org. Address, weekly president obama talks about the 2016 budget. President obama hi, everybody. Was hard to believe but it 17 years ago today that we had the worst economic crisis since the great depression. In the months that followed, millions of americans lost their jobs, homes, and the savings they had worked so hard to build. Today is a different story. Over the past five and half years, our businesses have created 13 million new jobs. Is Unemployment Rate lower, manufacturing is growing, housing is bouncing back. We have reduced our deficits by two thirds, and 16 million more americans know the security of Health Insurance. This is your progress. It is because of your hard work and sacrifice that americas comeback from crisis, faster than no most every other advanced nation on earth. We remain the safest, strongest that in the world. You may not know that if you only listen to the bluster of political season. When it is in the first of some politicians to paint america as dark and depressing as possible. But i dont see it that way. I have met too Many Americans who prove that this is a place where anything is possible. Yes, we have a lot of work to do rebuilding the middle class that has had the out stacked against it for decades, but that is the thing about america our work is never finished. We always strive to be better, to protect ours to improve ourselves. If republicans want to help, they can choose right now to pass a budget that helps us grow our economy even faster, create jobs even faster, let peoples incomes and prospects improve even faster. But they only have until the end of the month to do it or they will shut down our government for the second time in two years. Democrats are ready to sit down and negotiate with publicans with republicans right now, but it should be over legitimate issues like how much we invest in education, training, and infrastructure, not ideological issues like planned parenthood. Harmful cutsverse to middleclass economic priorities, close loopholes that benefit only a fortunate few at the top, and invest more in the things that help our entire economy grow. There is nothing principled about the idea of another government shutdown. There is nothing patriotic about denying the progress that you have worked so hard to make. Rica is great right now not because of our government or our wealth or our power, but because of everyone who works hard every day to move this country forward. Now Congress Needs to work as hard as you do. Thanks, and have a great weekend. Capito im senator Shelley Moore capito from west virginia. For months, congress carefully and thoughtfully examined the details of the president s agreement with iran and its profound effect on a national security. We have evaluated this deal through simple and straightforward the standards. Will this agreement eliminate irans path to a Nuclear Weapon . Will it improve the security situation in the middle east . And most of my, will it make america safer . The bipartisan majority of congress and the American Public have concluded it will not improve our safety, our security, or our stability. The us and minority in congress who support the deal acknowledge it shortcomings and the litany of flaws raised through the debate should invoke serious concern about are entering into the agreement with iran. The tens of billions of dollars that iran will receive once the sanctions are lifted will only increase its ability to sponsor the syrian regime, support hezbollah, it and threaten our allies. The president has said think is what go back into effect if iran violates the agreement, but lets be clear reversing course will be next to impossible. When i visited the middle east this spring, i heard first hand from World Leaders and our troops on the ground about the dangers posed by a nuclear iran. Iran is the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism. That isthe same regime currently holding for americans prisoner. Its Supreme Leader said last week that he believes israel will no longer exist within 25 years. The regime has already signaled it will defy attempts by the United States and other nations claim to enforce this agreement. SaidSupreme Leader has that, even after this deal, our policy toward the air again United States will not change. Iran on his past actions, is not a credible player. Sanctions adopted by congress are what rock iran to the negotiating table in the first place. Stronger sanctions could have forced iran to accept a better agreement, an agreement that is in the best interests of america and the world. Unfortunately, a partisan minority in the senate blocked a bipartisan majority from even taking it true up or down vote on whether the Nuclear Agreement should be approved. Fact thatspite the Congress Overwhelmingly passed legislation giving the American People the right to review the president s agreement and provide congress the ability to vote on it. Many of the democrats who supported legislation in may, giving congress the ability to vote on the agreements merits, change their position and helped deny an up or down vote. After it became clear this week that 42 democrats would band together to allow this flawed deal to move forward, republicans took steps to link the agreement to irans poor track record. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell offered an amendment that would prevent the president from lifting Nuclear Sanctions in the agreement until iran recognizes israels right to exist and releases the four american prisoners held in iranian custody. Before we provide iran with tens of billions of dollars of sanctions in relief sanctions relief, we should get a commitment that it will recognize one of our key allies and ensure the safe return of our citizens. But democrats also blocked a vote on this amendment, allowing president obama to waive sanctions and move forward with this unpopular agreement. With these negotiations, the president had an opportunity to use the leverage created by International Sanctions to dismantle Irans Nuclear program. He had an opportunity to show leadership and restore our standing in the world. Deal thatd, this is a fails to meet even the administrations own objectives. Because the president operated from a position of concession and not of strength, the American People are left with a bad deal. Im Shelley Moore capito, and thank you for listening. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Im speaking to you tonight at a very serious moment in our history. 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S. , live on tv or online at cspan. Org. Now a form on criminal remarksreform, with from several panelists, including Closing Remarks from attorney general loretta lynch. It is the 45th annual congressional black caucus, and this is to an a half hours. Good morning. I will try one more time. Good morning. It is my pleasure to be at this hot mic, to moderate what i hope will be a panel where we can get ofe wisdom on the topic leasing and Police Reform, particularly for our most maligned communities. When i was asked to moderate today, i did as i normally do and went straight to bible study. I thought, what wisdom can be offered . As is often the case with my bible, which is wiser than i, i opened it and went straight to proverbs 4 7, that said wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom. And in all that getting, understanding. Wisdom. In a moment when black lives matter is not just the call but the response, it is not just the art that the science, i tend to meditate on the wisdom of what does it mean, what are we called , what is required of us when a person or group of People Matters to us. What is required of me is i love you come if you matter to me. It is not just that i get to know you, that i understand you. But that i get to know and understand the things that influence you. , im not a child responsible parent if i love that child and ignore the friends that the child hangs out with. That im a partner thinking of marrying, it is not responsible for me to love him or her and have no idea what their friends are saying about me. Matter, it isives not responsible of us as a people, as a nation to be loving black folks while ignoring the Law Enforcement that is affecting their lives every day. Wisdom on howet to make black lives matter, i need to take seriously the idea that we need to increase our literacy on Police Issues. We need to understand policing. Ok . And i dont just mean that we need to read about it in the papal. We need to be able to answer fundamental questions about the character and content of policing. I have some fundamental questions. How many people were pulled over in their vehicle by the police last year. Raise your hand if you know the answer. Raise them high because we want to know. We will skip that one. Was force used by a Police Officer against a citizen of the United States last year . Go ahead, raise your hands high. We need to know. Alright, maybe we will skip that one as well. How about this are residentially segregated communities more likely to have please present it Police Presence . E your hand because i need to know. Our lack of literacy on Police Issues is a National Embarrassment. We all to be ashamed of ourselves. And all of us who want to proclaim that we need to do better, myself included ive gone from the bible, i have to go to my mama you cannot be loud and wrong. You cannot be loud and ignorant. We need to know come if black lives matter, we need to take seriously the project of coming , not justand policing literate but fluent in the culture of policing on its own terms, in its own state. In the way that we need to understand the friends of our children, the parents of our partners, and the character of this country. If black lives matter, we need to take leasing seriously. So that is the goal of today. Appear we have some of the at fixing our National Embarrassment of a lack of data and understanding. Im proud to have partners appear at the center for policing, equity, the National Justice database, the first and largest collection of police behavior. ,e will be hearing from people that from their tireless efforts, from their lifelong commitment, from the job they are doing right now today, right before they showed up and leave this meeting, are helping to correct the embarrassment, the lack of wisdom that we have, on how we can make good on our requirements of making black lives matter. So everyone appear and those who will come in at a later point will get about seven minutes to speak. We want to mature they are questions that we get from you all. Please stay with us, stay engaged. I will be giving very brief introductions. And then they will expand upon their particular topic. Is that good with everybody . Ok. Understand, we may not be in black church, but many of us are of black church, so its ok to have call and response. You may not be moved to say amen, but some of you may be. So, coming from the middle of the panel, im going to take on one of my very good friends, the director, ron davis, who thought he was going to be safe sitting in the middle. But he will have to go first. I think that we hear from federal voices in terms of what is moving. Ron davis, having spent a lifetime in Law Enforcement in oakland, one of the most distinguished sheaves in the nation, East Palo Alto, a revolutionary, trendsetter, and innovator. Now the first africanamerican director of the cops office, doing tremendous work on the collaborative reform, giving some carrots to the Police Department, not just sticks. However you want to do it, but i would prefer to see you stand. Please join me in welcoming director davis. [applause] mr. Davis good morning. Real quick, its great to be here. I think this is a great topic. I spent 30 years in Law Enforcement before coming to the cops office, 20 years in the great city of oakland, very diverse community, one that thes a lot of challenges in 8. 5 yearsplus, and East Palo Alto is a diverse city that faces challenges. When i came to the cops office, i brought an understanding of watching the evolution of policing the last 30 years. I was a rookie cop in 1985, they had a special program for 12yearold. Cop, that a rookie was right at the beginning of the crack epidemic. I think about what was policing about, it was heavily about enforcement. The way that you excelled in the organization was by making more and more arrests. In 1985, if you believe in reentry, i would tell you absolutely my job is to reenter everyone back and present. Nobody changes, that is the way it is. Now we know that is not the case. We also know despite our best efforts, we made a lot of progress since the 1980s. We are engaged in more Community Policing, but a lot of humanities have been left behind. Dr. Walker is good at framing this. We have to knowledge the role Law Enforcement has played throughout history in communities. We have to acknowledge that because that creates generational mistrust. When we see people demonstrating, people frustrated, that is because they are disconnected, systemanchised, and the does not seem to serve them the way it was designed to do so. We have an obligation to address it. In my 30 years, ive never seen such an opportunity. I was in the Police Department when rodney king occurred. I have seen crazies come and go, and it usually seems to come and go. Is we are in the middle of a new Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The question for my colleagues in blue, and uniform, what role are we going to play in the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960s, we are pressed the, stopped the, disrupted it, try to prevent it. I think in that favor century, we will facilitate it, support it, be part of it because we need to make changes. Based on a lot of things going on in the country in december of last year, president obama announced the creation of the president s task force on 21st century policing. That provides a roadmap for us. He identified 11 outstanding members. I was honored enough to serve as executive director at the cops office. These loving people are police academics, coming off the demonstration line, coming off the lines in new york. They were academics and civil rights attorneys whose whole career where the Police Departments. Views,d such Diverse People wondered if we could come together to build anything. I think we learned that diverse views are not divisive views. Within diversity, we came together and build consensus. Is that you can bring people with diverse views to the table and still build consensus. The challenges you have to bring people that will stretch you out of your limits. You cannot just invite the people that you are comfortable with, you have to invite the people you are not. Up with a series of recommendations, and hopefully you had a chance to look at the report. On how to build trust and make our nation safer. The president charge the task force and was clear. He won a concrete recommendations to build trust, but he also wanted to ensure that we continue to enhancing Public Safety. I think that is with the task force did, this is the report out there. Now the charges to mature that this report is not put on the shelf. , thatt is operationalized departments use it as a roadmap. We are starting to see that. Im traveling all over and seeing Police Chiefs reporting to the communities the things they have implemented, the things they need to implement, working with the community to advance. This has to be driven by everyone. We are coproducers of Public Safety. And i want to and with this. I want you to think about a couple of constants that drive me to be a police chief. We talk about fighting crime and violence, and sometimes in that fight is where we lose our way. We start struggling with crime rates and homicides in violence. We can lose our way because we want to think the only thing were supposed to do is reduce crime. Public safety is not just the absence of crime, but also the presence of justice. I want you to think about this if you think about a neighborhood, whoever controls the open public space in the neighborhood controls the quality of life for the people who live there. Think about your neighborhood, were you grow, especially urban centers. Weber controls the open space controls the quality of life. If gang members and drug dealers contrarily, people live in fear. If Police Control the, people feel oppressed. The only Rightful Owner is the community. The role of the community and the police is not to stop and frisk, take thousands of people to jail, not increase incarceration, it is to empower and work with the community to take control of their own public space so they can be alive, well, and reduce crime. Its all about regaining control of the neighborhoods by the community, with the community, not against it and not fighting it. In 30 years i would say we are at a defining moment in american policing history. We have an opportunity that comes with crisis, but i caution the window of opportunity will close quickly, and its usually replaced with mistakes. Lets not repeat the same mistakes. Lets have the courage to have the discussions that we are supposed to have. Lets use words like race and bias, lets talk about Excessive Force, lets talk about supporting officers. Not every cop is bad, not every young person is bad. We need to have the courage to talk about the future. We need to come together. This is one of those times. And when its time for me to leave office, i want to say that we came together, that we work together, and the country is better for it. And i will Say Something when i look at the officers right now, i look at the leadership, i have traveled country, for those more apprehensive, take solace. I seen a new generation of officers that are smarter, that come from a lot more diverse environments. They want to do the right thing. We have to help them. I am seeing chiefs wanting to learn and embrace. Lets not make this a fight. Lets not make this a debate, lets make it a dialogue, work together, and im looking forward to your questions. Thank you. [applause] it is now my absolute pleasure and honor to introduce the representative of michigans 13th district, the man who has introduced more civil rights less elation than any other person in the history of this country, represented of john conyers. [applause] [cheers] mr. Conyers top of the morning, everybody. Great to be here. Im pleased to be here to help convene the annual forum of criminal justice reform. Bys year, we are joined policing practices experts to help us gain a better understanding of the challenges to resolving the growing divide between the police and minority communities which they serve. I say that carefully. We want to understand the challenges to resolve the growing divide between the police and minority communities which they serve. The tragic deaths of michael brown, eric garner, walter scott, freddie gray have sparked pain and outrage in communities across the nation calling for congressional action. For many in our communities , the death of these men, along with many others, represents a continuing and dangerous cycle of disproportionate use of force against men of color. Today, this here weekend, concrete solutions to stop this pattern. Racial tension in america by rebuilding our communities and a balanced way. Where everyone receives equal education. That is where it starts. Ob opportunities a fair shot at the american dream. Equal education is where it starts, but the wholeness where it the home is where really starts. It is the home. The sad truth about this kind of is that its root causes are tied together with societal racism that brands black predators and Police Practice that treats them as potential perpetrators. Breeding mistrust between Law Enforcement and the community that they are bound to protect. Responding to this destructive cycle requires a broadbased approach. , iaddress Police Practices 42 usc4141, pass part of the federal statute of the 1994 crime bill, allowing the department of justice to sue or provide local Police Departments with resources necessary to address dangerous and discriminatory practices that result in Excessive Force or racial profiling. This statute, this law has been used successfully across the number ofreduce the policeinvolved shootings. And the positive effect of legislative reform efforts. Law, along of the with the introduction of hr 1933, the end racial profiling act, play a crucial role in breaking historically unjust practices of Law Enforcement. Racial profiling is an issue that affects many people of , letsn a regular basis face it, and is just one piece of the greater issue of unjust practices directed towards minorities in different communities across the nation. Introduced to directly address the issue of illegal use of race by Law Enforcement agencies. It represents a comprehensive federal commitment to healing the rift caused by racial profiling and restoring Public Confidence in the criminal Justice System. It is designed to enforce the constitutional right to the equal protection of law by changing the policies and procedures underlying the active racial profiling, and further right introduced another bill, the Law Enforcement trust and integrity act. This legislation provides incentives for local Police Organizations to voluntarily adopt performancebased standards to ensure that incidents of misconduct will be minimized through appropriate Management Training and oversight protocols. ,nd if such incidents to occur they will be properly investigated. The bill also provides police whocers, the vast majority are pretty decent people, concerned with their communities , with the tools necessary to work with their communities to enhance their professional growth and education. We must continue the discussion on criminal justice reform, develop legitimate plans to make local Law Enforcement agencies more accountable to their communities. Until we development a concrete ,lan to address the root causes we can only wait to see tragic events repeated across other communities. So this panel will feature experts from the department of justice, Law Enforcement, and the efficacy community to provide the Advocacy Community to provide an overview of the continuing challenges in policecommunity relations. Law enforcement accountability and transparency, and racial profiling. Now to turn the ,loor over to professor philip from the center on policing equity. Thank you, and its good to see all of you here. [applause] host so as the professor on the stage, i feel there are lots of different modes of learning that we have available to us, and i would like to turn it over to the far end of the stage, to miss kanye bennett. Oh, sorry. Her voice isong here present with us. [laughter] her spirit is i apologize. I will let you introduce yourself so i dont get any other details wrong. Thank you. Panelist good morning. Can i push this . Ok. Ok. It im time you clay house, im tanya clayhouse. I will be speaking to you today on behalf of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law, but i will be leading the Lawyers Committee. My last day is actually tuesday, but im still here on behalf of the Lawyers Committee. I will be heading into the department of the Deputy Assistant secretary. [applause] so of course, some of the issues i want to talk about today are dealing with school discipline. We will get to that as well. I do appreciate thank you philip for the introduction, and fork you for mr. Conyers allowing me to be on this panel today. I have been wanting to participate for a while, and its a great opportunity to have all of you all come here today and here with so many things are going on. Chance, often get the being we are here inside the beltway, but you need to understand how things are really working. Appeared lone woman today, i also want to talk about a couple issues with regard to black women and policing. Some of the distinctions and unique factors that are faced. So without further it do, let me go into a few things. Committee, armys and is to eliminate Racial Discrimination. We are founded by former president john f. Kennedy in 1963, not only to eliminate Racial Discrimination but protect civil rights laws. We engage on issues where we see the inherent discrepancy, that there is discrimination and disparities occurring. The criminal Justice System has been looking at those for years. Recently, with the highlighting of what has happened in ferguson , what happened with eric garner, what happened with sandra blair, what happened across the country, seeing a lot more focused on some of the policing issues, this is the larger function of what has happened in the criminal Justice System. As a result of some of this thisighting, we all know is going on for years, the advent of cell phones and cameras, we are seeing more of that now. The Civil Rights Coalition on Police Reform was formed over a little over a year ago. Weekly. Been meeting one of the things we do is bring together National Organizations, bring together state organizations, the grassroot activists, and coordinate and has strategy in which we figure out what are the things we need to be doing from top to bottom. So i really appreciate the conversations weve had throughout this with ron davis. We had many conversations. He knows us well. We have had many conversations with the department of justice. Let me just inform you of a couple things that go into what i want to talk about. Part of our conversation was where are we on a lot of these investigations that are occurring. What are the updates, how we get this information out to people, how things are pursued. I think it is always enlightening for us to get this information because we often know that those of us in organizations, people dont understand how that process is working. So it was good for us to have that conversation. Right now what we are going to webinar totogether a bring everybody together and say this is how the process is working at doj, this is how long it takes. Things are going on. Things are actually happening in baltimore, things are happening in ferguson. Happening in ohio, things are happening and continuing implementation strategies in louisiana. Thehis is good Work Department of justice is doing, but so much more can be done. As part of that work, it needs to be about policy reform. While we absolutely appreciate the creation of the president s task force on a First Century Police Reform, there are some things we need to work on. For example, the broken windows policy, which is a policy engaged across the country by many Law Enforcement agencies that utilizes more aggressive crimes, withlesser the idea that somehow that is stymy further criminal activity. What we know is this simply leads to racial profiling and harassment. The stop and frisk policies that we are aware of in new york. This is the result of these broken window policies. That is something we have to significantly address, that has to be done on a policy level, that has to see fundamental change within Law Enforcement agencies. Talked about the issue of women. Because we often hear, obviously, about the impact that the profiling that we will hear more about happening on black men, but back women black women have a unique perspective because the power structure is much different when it comes to the policing of women, in general, but particularly black women full stop. We are made to feel we are overly aggressive. You combine all of that, and there is a lack of respect, lack of appreciation, and over aggressive tactics that are engaged often upon black women because of the power structures that are engaged. You heard about sandra bland, pulled over for changing lanes. Up dying in police custody. Obviously there is concern about what is going on, is there a real investigation happening, and we are continuing to follow that situation, but we have not heard as much about that. We have not heard as much about many of our other sisters, jones, mckenna. These are all women. In the fourth of july 5 black women, at least five like women who died in police custody. These are statistics that we have to get out there. This gets to the issue of Data Collection as well. We need to make sure that we are getting the information in because we dont know what we dont know. There is so much happening across the country. With a few minutes i have left, let me just say i wanted to focus on we are at the beginning, which is policing of men and women often begins in the schools. And overight now criminalization that is happening in schools. We have School Resource officers, which are police in school. Mostly they are within schools that have a high proportion of minority students. What often results is you have our kids being arrested. Shackledrader being because he had an outburst. He has autism, but he was shackled and handcuffed in school, screaming for 15 minutes because nobody understood that there were other techniques that could be used to work with him. We have kids were being arrested for having a volcano that explodes in the classroom, and all of a sudden they are arrested and sent to alternative schools. We had situations where preschoolers are being thrown out and suspended from preschool. What can you do in preschool . To and a sixyearold, and theyre both boys. They are a little hyper. My goodness. When we were growing up, this was not the case. We have to deal with what is happening in our schools and how that relationship within between the children and the police, they are getting that early on. Our kids are being taught not only early on to fear the police, but then the police are being taught that our children are not worth their respect, they are not human beings. They are only looked at as potential criminals. This mentality has to stop. I urge all of you as we continue this discussion to think about this in a copper heads level, but they do about this in the beginning. We have to deal with schools, over policing, the thought processes that is leading to these schools and going through different pipelines. I appreciate the opportunity to be here and the continued engagement. I will apologize not for changing my job, but i overbooked and i have to hit another panel, so i have to leave a little early, but i love you all and im staying as long as i can and i want to mature that we have an o opportunity to discuss, so thank you. [applause] for yournk you, tanya, graciousness. I want to echo something when we are looking at the ways in which Law Enforcement are engaging with our communities, ofare seeing the images black masculinity, black men being violated. That is what happens on the streets. The cameras will catch that. They will not catch responses to Domestic Violence. They will not capture things that are happening many times in custody. They will not capture things that are happening under cover, talking about Human Trafficking or sex work. That is where women are most vulnerable in the Law Enforcement system. Lets make sure that we keep in mind that we dont reinforce sexism in the world in the way that we reform Law Enforcement. And now we will bring Gregory Thomas to the front come who is the president of the National Organization of black Law Enforcement. Former has been a speaker on all of these issues for quite some time, has three inks, 17 blogs, 15 tweets the last 10 minutes that you should be reading. The old school and new school and he is a central voice in make a sure we see the humanity of these communities and the humidity of the officers who must be sworn to protect us. Please join me in welcoming him. [applause] to improve Police Community relations, there is an evaluation process to assess discriminatory practices and policies of this place. They further recommended the development of the police union they proposeents that a establishment of Department Guidelines for field investigations for field procedures and eyewitness identification to reduce harassment. To better define the role of the black executives, officials recommend a black Police Executives write and publish policy papers. It was also advocated that they ensure equal opportunity for defenseman. The officials also recommended black Police Executives assure the upward mobility of lack Police Officers. Moreover, it was recommended that black Police Executives encourage black Police Officers at the entrylevel ranks to prepare for promotional exams by initiating study classes. Lastly it was recommended that black Police Executives be accountable to the black community and beards to speak to the black Community Within the department and community at large. Good afternoon. The recommendations that i just read to you were a very small bit of paraphrasing of recommendations that were made during the course of a lawenforcement symposium held here in washington, d. C. A symposium attended by over 60 top ranking black Law Enforcement executives, representing a four states, 55 major cities. A symposium that was held to exchange views about the critically high rate of crime in black urban communities and the socioeconomic conditions that lead to crime and violence. This symposium im referring to was held in washington, d. C. , september 7, 1976. It was during this symposium the National Organization of black Law Enforcement executives was founded. I stand here now as the president of that organization, also known as noble. After hearing the recommendations made over 39 years ago, it looks like the 19th century french critic Alphonse Karr got it right when theade the famous quote more things change, the more they stay the same. Recent events like in new york, ferguson, missouri, and baltimore, maryland, will forever be seared in American History and conscious as days and events where policing went bad and have caused a flood from policyssions interest groups, policy experts, and those in the public who think they are experts on how to fix a broken Law Enforcement or criminal Justice System. So here we are again, close to 40 years after the founding of noble, 40 years after the founders met to discuss some of the very same things in policing we are discussing today full stop here we are again putting on our collective thinking caps to resolve a problem or problems that the members of noble already knew how to solve. Is proud to say that noble involved in the conversation. Ron davis mentioned the Task Force President obama put together to look at policing, doing a lot of of work to ensure we heard the voices of our members regarding the needs to look at policing in a different light. We have also been involved in the work done by the cops office and supported congressman conyers work, fully involved in making sure there is Police Accountability but at the same time that it is feasible. Itt we reach the ceilings as relates to assessing Police Departments and making them better. I also take pride since i was here tuesday evening, i got a from call midday wednesday the white house where the Senior Advisor to the president called me and my colleagues to meet noble, to, alone with talk about how we can advance this conversation. You should know that noble has been involved since 1976, and is involved today. We also want to have a balanced conversation about the fact there is no doubt there are singular acts being conducted by Police Officers around the country. We know that. Not all police are bad. We have to raise the expectations for Police Officers, but recognize those who are doing well and keep them at the forefront. I dont know anybody in this room that is expected to call 911 to matter where you are the country and nobody answers. You want some but he there, with the right context and respect for your community and who you are. As we discussed the need for Police Accountability and reform, i asked that we not discount and forget the lessons and challenges of the past. Because if we do, if we do, we are surely doomed to repeat them. Thank you. [applause] host keeping this humming. Those of you are on twitter are aware that he loves his blackness and yours. If you are in need of more blackness come he need to follow him. He does not speak for the movement, he speaks for himself, but when he does, many in the movement hear their voices echo. He has been an invaluable voice at making sure that those who are in institutions of power, who have positions of authority, who have the capacity to change institutions and use it for the good are held accountable and kept accountable for those were not used to participating in this great democracy. Tos my honor to bring him the floor. Please join me in welcoming him. [applause] i apologize for being late. I may protester, i have been in many cities, standing with testers across the country. I have a big social media platform. In august last year, i had 800 followers, i have 200,000 now, working on the messaging. A couple of points that come up often. One is Community Policing. Coded. Eally racially Community Policing often means, lets have the police all over communities. For some any people, that means a form of surveillance, not the type of policing when you think of the upper west side, georgetown. Those communities are safe not because they are flooded with police but they are resourced differently. When people talk about community , it often mean something racially coded. Theres a thing about, well, if the police are in the community and they play basketball with people, like if they knew us, the neighborhoods would be safer because of the relationships. You dont need to know my name not to harm me. And when you think about the upper west side, those kids walking to school know the police are not escorting them, what are you doing after school, lets play basketball. The notion we think about Community Policing is heavily race is always at play. I was on another panel were somebody said, join the police, be a part of the gang that you want to be part of. You should think about joining the Police Department if youre to be part of the change. I dont need to be a Police Officer for the police to do their job well. I dont need to be a teacher to have great education. I dont need to be a doctor to have great health care. We can expect things from the institution because it is a public institution. Say when we think about crime, somebody said on another panel, one of the police members, the police know where the crime is. That was her response. I say the police are not in wall street, they are not on the upper west side. That is actually not true. The responses, lets couple came we mean when we mean crime. Black people, crime is this big pervasive thing. When we talk about nonblack people, crime becomes new wants to becomes Domestic Violence, it becomes insider trading. We talk about black people, there is this pervasive notion of crime. People also talk about the 1980s, how we talk about baltimore, this notion that this used to be unsafe. The response to violence is not violence. It might have been unsafe, but the way to instill safety is not to harm people. There is Fascinating Research that i look at the we talk about implicit i. S. , police and testing, there is new research this is real research. Yeah that is him you should read his research, everybody. Its great. We have to talk. Header predictor of aggressive policing than racial bias. Fascinating research. And a researcher from harvard said, putting back, we talk about criminal policing, we believe that a support. He is arguing, he calls that public disorder. He says private disorder is what is leading to violence in the communities, q violence, this idea that it is interpersonal drama, domestic abuse, landlordtenant disputes that ripple into violence. Of the person hiding behind a car ready to steal your purses not what is leading to a lot of violence in the communities. It is an interesting way to explore. There is always the question, can we work with the police . We believe we can. But that requires announcement acknowledgment from the police there is stuff to be worked on. The police are saying it is always a conditional apology. We over policed the protesters in baltimore because they shut down the street. Like we should not have pepper spray batman that had his hands up st. Until the police come to the table with full of knowledge meant of the things they may not have done, i dont know how we work together. I say this as a buddy who was willing to be impressing. We had a great meeting the other day, meeting with so many people. It requires this willingness to tell the truth about the actions. Notll end with two things, all the police, we agree. But the institution of policing, that it is problematic. Zero,k about campaign which we just launched, a platform of policy solutions. We believe we can structurally End Police Violence and live in a world where the police dont kill people, they dont kill every people this year in all states but three, over 800 people. We have a problem, but we believe that we can end the structurally full stop we also have the notion of safety. The safety of communities is not predicated upon the presence of the police. We need todecenter policing. Safety becomes our jobs, development, all those other things, but georgetown is not safe because the police are there, they are safe for a host of reasons. Contractsese union get no play, but the institution of policing, a lot of cities where Police Officer files are purged, discipline is automatically removed in cycles. You think, that Police Officer has no discipline history. It is not because they do not do anything, they are literally perched. A lot of cities were the officers cannot give statements in the first 48 hours, like in maryland. All these protections that essentially guarantee there will not be accountability. We dont think that is fair. Chicago, for an officer to get a lie detector test, the person accusing him has to pass a lie detector test. That is not a standard held to any people that police arrest. We want to complicate this conversation. We struggle with Community Policing, and we struggle with the way the police come to the table to talk about how to move forward, so i appreciate being here. Thank for having me here, and i apologize for being late. [applause] host all kinds of people being discovered on the stage today. The next introduction that it is my privilege to make is Hillary Shelton. She presently serves as the ector i need the fans have your moment. Have your moment. She serves as the director of the naacp Washington Bureau for african policy, informally serves as the 101st senator. Been instrumental in bringing forward the Voting Rights restoration act. Every act that needs to be restored, Hillary Shelton has been a part of. Please join me in welcoming the man, the myth, the legend. Hillary shelton. [applause] mr. Shelton good morning. I am honored to be here, and i will sprint through a marathon. As we talk about the challenges in our community, it is a confidence problem. It requires a comprehensive approach. I am honored to sit on this panel because so much of what we are talking about now was done by many of those who are here. To ron davis is almost like you hear about the fisherman who loves to tell the stories about the big ones who got away . Well, i am that fisherman and he is jonah from the bible. [laughter] all the brothers and sisters on the panel now, and to all those coming later. I would also be remiss if i did not think john. Every lease of legislation, john led the charge. We were delighted to be there within us that general nature of our communities were taken care of and we could be actively involved. We talk about these issues and challenges, but we have not talked about the issue of ending racial profiling. Outside, i right hope on your way out you will grab this packet. I will talk about a number of bills very quickly. Hope you will grab this because the particular details are there as well. The understanding, explanation and the solutions of these are in this packet. Discussion ishis laying down a foundation and that a approach must be taken. That will require us from this to be actively involved in a process that has stalled for years and years on good commonsense approaches to policing problems in our society. The end racial profiling act begins that process. We have lost the trust and Law Enforcement because we have many officers who involve themselves in racial profiling. Let me stop there for a hot second. When i say the word, racial profiling, the man who led the charge has just walked into this room. Please give a huge round of applause for john. [laughter] from his traffic stops statistics, i asked him just to collect the data. There is not one professional Law Enforcement official who will tell you that we need to have a change of policy without data. As with they say all the time, good data leads to good Law Enforcement. For some reason, they have stopped us from collecting that data. I will never forget my good nds at the police union fop, thank you so much. It was on the tip of your tongue am a too. Tongue, too. They sent a letter to john when we interested jake Data Collection bill, they said we oppose your bill simply to collect data on routine traffic stops. He said, the reason is we do not want Police Officers involved in sociological experiments. On the one hand, we want the data to craft the policy, on the other hand we do not want to collect the data. There is a problem in that and that is why it feels so crucial. Holding lawhe data, enforcement accountable and making sure they do what they are supposed to be doing and not targeting us. Those who drugged on highway 95, i can tell you what we determined is about 17 of the driving population is africanamerican. The between here and delaware 70 of the routine traffic stops are africanamerican. That onlyreal problem the data will tell and the data has to be collected. Thank you john, for making that happen. Training,out police it only as good as the policy. At what point can they use force . We have all been quite amazed. Kiduding a 12yearold playing on the playground. For some reason it became acceptable that whoever we saw coming to the microphone and sing they did it by the book you everything they did was right. I think god that he recognize that as well. If you think this is what the law says, we have to change the law. We will now set policies for when it is acceptable. When can they use the taser and how . When can they pull out the gun and when can they use that . It is not acceptable for a Police Officer to pull up to a playground, because a kid is reported to play the gun on the playground and within two seconds should him twice in the ship chest. There is a problem when the leadership steps forward and says he did it by the book. Weve a dead 12yearold kid playing with a toy gun on the playground. At what point is it acceptable for a child to play with his toy . If it is not on the playground, i dont know where it is. The issue of video surveillance. We do want body cams. We thank god for dash cams. We want to make sure our policy is in place. We have Police Officers now using them but somehow they become obstructed. Must be in place to hold them accountable for how they use them. We had a case two months ago where a man was tasered once, three more times before they stopped. The problem wasnt that the tasers froze up his muscles and he fell off the roof, it wasnt that he fell off the roof and hit his head on the curb. It wasnt that a child was tased, and died as a result of it. People are tased four times and the official cause of death is electrocution. Issue wealk about this want to make sure there is a camera on the tasers as well. We want all of those things recorded. It keeps us safe and the police as well. Have into make sure we our communities Police Accountability review boards. Not this whitewashed stuff where the heads of the Police Government convene citizens to look at the data and then report back to the police chief what happened. Thats like saying, brother shelton, if you have a problem with the irs, it is on you to what i should be able to say is i will do a full review of my taxes. Andll do a duplicate report share it with you in 12 font, double spaced, to make sure you know exactly what happened. Not only did i not pay enough taxes, but you only money back. It isternal affairs wrong and it has to stop. Is helpful in some cases but not these cases. Too many times they say the same thing. The policy is fine and that is the way it goes. Document there are a number of policy and suppose that we recommend for local accountability review boards. It includes independence. Should not go in the Police Department to complain about the officer who beat you up. , just like testing with the lunch counters, we sent welltrained people into the Police Department to ask for the forms to complain and i can say, go on the internet and google these cases. What you see is a young man asking nicely for the form to fill out but what stood there first, the desk sergeant said i will give you a form unless you tell me who you are complaining about. To talk i dont want about it i just want to take it home and fill it out. The sergeant said i will not let you do that until you tell me what is happening. It is my response ability. He said again, i really dont want to talk about it now i just want to fill it out and take it home. On, anotheras going officer walked out the back door of the police station, he went around the corner to come in the front door. When this man was still asking very nicely, he was tackled to the ground for asking to the form to complain. That has to stop. Independent independence is very important. The power to compel the grand jury is important. Thepower to compel prosecutor and attorney to bring the indictment and work it out in court is very important. Let me say two more things and i am out. Time, past airst bill to collect data. 2014 on u. S. Citizens to die at the hands of Police Officers to we did not have the data to see how pervasive the problem is. , becausef this president obama wanted to move as quickly as he could the policies are in place and the regulations had to be promulgated and we had to start collecting data on every time one of our children, brothers, sisters, mothers or fathers are killed or harmed by police. Lets make sure we have the proper data to make sure that we do it right. I feel the need to pass the offering plate. Up is the chief of the indianapolis metro Police Department. Before he was chief in indianapolis, she had a very special position in the baltimore Police Department. Was a member of the vanguard just a society which was the organization they represented black Police Officers in baltimore put baltimore pd. Ask him about that experience. Ime in welcoming him to think it is still morning. Good morning. Myself how i would start this conversation. We wanted to have a conversation. I didnt want it to be a monologue, but a dialogue. I will have to be brief. Cop, who are didnt as a child how we need police to raise children in our communities at one point in time. Remember dialing 911 . How many have dialed for one reason or another . How many are member of time we did not have it . What did we dial . What number . Zero. There was a Lesson Learned as a child when youre told how to dial the phone on the old rotary, for those who do not remember the rotary phone. Before that princess phone and all the other ones. The dialed zero under one condition. What was the condition . In an emergency. Zero,ly time you dial prior to 911, was in an emergency. What did we do before we dialed zero. We had to fix the problem. We had to talk about it. We had to share with the community and the family. We worked on fixing the problem. The question i have to ask is why did you stop fixing the problem. The reality was, even during that time, a lot was happening. It was a this use and abuse of power. Even then police were sent to schools to block doorways and prevent people of color from getting an education. White would we think we would not have to continue to maintain we woulduld we think not have to maintain a sense of community . 1968, ir thing, in remember as a young man being in school and officer friendly camp to class. Remember officer friendly . Then april 4, 1968 came. I got a chance to see officer friendly in another light. Standing on broadway in indiana differentim. His uniform. Putting on his vest and shield, helmet and riot stick. Forcing us to get off the street. That officer him friendly has more than one job. So what does he have in your community or our Community Today . The third thing i have to tell you is that in 1980, that whole notion of Community Policing really took off. Other people in our community talked about it ostensibly. 1937, the first Police Officer in baltimore had to have a college degree. I also member hearing that people of color came from miles around and stood outside around officers houses. Black officers. And waited for them to go to work. They were proud of the fact that they were Police Officers. Why did we stop . Why did we stop sending people who will make a difference . Paying attention to those things that were important in our community before we dialed zero. Why arent we using the police in a way where we know for a fact they do not have the tools to address . 1980s also brought about a change in the way we looked at mental health. What happened in the 1980s . The closed the institutions down. Enforcementthat law should be the orderlies and the jails become the institution we take people to . A lot of this is originbased. I am a believer in problem oriented thinking but solution based outcomes. How many of you want to let your sons in georgia and on to say i solemnly swear to uphold the constitution and perform the duties of the Police Officer to the best of my abilities, how many are willing to do that . Raise your hands if you want to send a relative to Law Enforcement today . Only a few hands. That is about the number we receive who really really care about changing the culture of Law Enforcement. We can no longer be a spectator sport. We have to be active participants. I can tell you that i came from baltimore and we spent 32 years abroad. We try to make a difference. I saw the indifference and prejudice. That was at rollcall. [laughter] we had to deal with people who had nappy hair and maroon eyes. That was the description they gave in those days. How people could say the natives are restless. Who are the natives . Who andre those of us third that because we and endured that because we fought against it. People like hillary and others tothe naacp who supported us make a difference, but it came at a price. Here is their platform to speak out about injustice. So what happens when you speak out against injustice . Are we prepared to stand behind them and support them as they speak out . [applause] we also going to stand behind those officers who go about more than putting drugs, guns and money . That is the role of police. The tactical side of police is what we use for recruitment. Kids when theyr walk up to a Police Officer or a young person to we encourage them, dont talk to them. You dont want to become snitching. You dont want to be seen talking to the police. Are we willing to do what is necessary to make a difference stop . O, why did we to move forward in our reforms through vanguard and noble. But noble became the organization that recognized the 30s to the leadership. They are making sure there is a difference in policing today but here is the problem we have to have a voice larger than this room. We have to have executives in this position. 83 departments, 1000 or more Police Officers. The question becomes what does the next leader look like to you. Its important to have this discussion because they bring about the change in our country but it comes at a price again. Cincinnati this last week. A good chief and a hardworking man. It is important to know and Pay Attention to those on the forefront taking hits you lastly, in indianapolis i had the opportunity to be the deputy director. Consulting work and minding my business. I saw a young man whose face was brutally beaten and i saw a Community Divided over that and a Police Officer involved in an accident where he struck a motorist and killed him. If we stand by, and watch it happen, the divide continues. We have to find a way to bridge the gap between community and police. We also need a conversation about accountability on both sides. We have to have transparency and data. We are pushing for that and we need resources to do that you to do that. We dont have the money spent it is the blueprint for change in this country. We will need your help with grants and money to talk about body cams. Everybody loves body cams . Raise her hand if you want to see body cams in your community. What about car stops . We have consensus. Foot chases . Good stuff. What about when it comes to your home . Can you trust big brother to come in with that camera and walked through your front door . One of the questions was asked, if my family is scantily clad in the middle of the night are you going to turn that camera off, chief . What is the answer . You wanted on or do you want it off . Your nextdoor neighbor once that video, by the way. Under the freedom of information act, do we give it to them . This is why we need to talk about policies and practices. To ask ourselves what we really want to see. Are we willing to pay for and support it. I am looking forward to the discussion this afternoon. [applause] the next individual that is my honor to introduce has at least 17 different hats. Bennie, from wayne county michigan is not only Law Enforcement but a lifetime naacp mender member. He also has his own private practice and is a parttime professor. Basketball coach, a mentor, a father of someone pursuing her masters degree. So i heard asked, when was the last time in the black freedom struggle we asked for more state super valence . Valence superveil lance . Please join me in welcoming the sheriff. Good afternoon. I have been told that the attorney generals arrival is imminent and that i can speak as long as i want to as long as i am done in five minutes. I will be briefer than i had anticipated. I would like to thank them for putting together this very important discussion. Heard talkested as i about my career, after hearing everybody i have been doing this 41 years. It is hard to look back and see that 41 years later we are still having the same discussions. The same very issues we have talked about in Law Enforcement, no matter how progressive we we haveed to be, achieved africanamericans leading many of the Police Departments in this country, we have challenges. Those challenges have not gone unnoticed. We have recruiting issues. What goes into determines how good it is coming out. In your recruiting effort to bring the right ones in you will not have them in your agency. I heard this talk about officer friendly i would like to have known officer friendly. We did not have any officer friendlys. We had stress. Had a Challenging Police agency that did not represent the community it was serving. That is why recruiting is important. Something as simple as being willing to live in the community you want to police is critical. Yet, we no longer require it in detroit. Challenging residency and the elimination of it in the chief of police and saying this is bad policy, how is it that a person could live 100 miles away from the city that is 90 africanamerican in a community that does not look like the community they want to police and visited only 10 times in their life and the become a Police Officer in it. There is something wrong with that policy. Education is key. We are in turbulent times. Thes worse than it was in 60s. The sad part is, there are people who think that everything is ok. You heard some leadership say that what you saw is all right. Policy was followed. You, as i go to my seat, and i want to be brief because i respect the attorney general, that there is not one person sitting on this podium who believes that selling cigarettes on the streets of this nation should warrant a death sentence. There is not one person on this dais who believes that running from police in this country warrants a death sentence. There is not one person sitting here who believes that surrendering with your hands up deserves a death sentence. We want to change things. Thank you. [applause] i was given the high side that her approach was imminent. You will forgive us if we are eager for her arrival. Pleasure, it is my while i watch the door to make sure i get the take this pleasure right now. Who grew up in communities where there were church elders, mosque elders, Community Elders who had, not just wisdom but a genius that went untapped. Because of the ways in which the eyes of this country avoided the reality in our community. And florence or uncle willie. Not related to anybody in the community but they are your at florists or uncle willie your aunt florence or uncle willie. I want to introduce these geniuses. Ron scott has more than 40 years of experience in activism, radio and television and recently won the Unsung Heroes award. Not just for cofounding the local chapter of the black but for having genius that can translate the experiences of communities and make it legible for people who are aliens to it. Talking about many hats, he just issued a blogging pamphlet on what to do about abuse of force. I highly recommend that you talk about that. I have a list here. Everybodys bio is incredibly impressive. This list is doublesided. I want you to understand that we , as we continue to reexplorer and reunderstand our own history, we will continue to grow in our appreciation for this man. Please join me in welcoming ron scott to the stage. [applause] thank you very much. I would like to august obviously think the congressman for being on the front lines. I think we met the congressman shortly after he went to congress and we have both been fighting several battles. I am glad to be here every year to do this. A few years ago i mentioned police militarization. People looked at it and thought about it and said militarization. Nextd, i guarantee in the few years you will be talking about and you will experience it. It happened. Not just because it was seen on television or because somebody caught it on video, but we were experiencing it at the time. These things,with listen to the people in your Community Fighting these battles every day and every night, all the time. I think about those dark alleys i go into and i think about the mothers of the children when i see the brains of people on the floor. It is not a television scenario. It is what we do every day. Make your life committed to fighting for justice, safety and the end of violence. The end of violence on both ends. Not just the police. We have another primary entity where we intervene in resolving conflict before the police get there. Calls that they have our Domestic Violence and we found it. We had a guy who was shot by the police. It was because of a Domestic Violence situation. We did not have what we used to call the big mama factor. Because she could quell that. She did not intervene so Dennis Crawford died. The baby mama and her family and the family of Dennis Crawford wanted to shoot each other. We had two funerals. That helped us develop peace zones for rife for life. We do Economic Development so we can resolve some of our issues before the police get there. How is it that some people can resolve conflict before it happens and we turn around and say well, we have to call the police. I know that sheriff napoleon would rather get there and resolve it and have it be resolved. I will be very short. The east incident on side of detroit where two were going to shoot each other. We started resolving the conflict and by the time the police got there, they said they were called for a fight between 40 people. By this time, the people in the neighborhood who stand at the liquor store said no, we intervened. We resolved it. Wastopped the fight it between the neighborhood underground pharmaceutical operator. Credd to keep his street and this 16yearold stole a bike. Now the neighborhood underground pharmaceutical operator is working on what we have as a peace park and he is running a barbecue outfit. [applause] the coalition against police for talented. The other thing is, as the secretary comes, i want to say this loud and clear. We had a federal Consent Decree that sheriff napoleon will recall. It is coming along to some degree. Departments that do not comply, on a daily level, they get a lot of money from the Justice Department. That money from the Justice Department from jackets to whatever else, that money should not go to them when there is a problem. I dont mean after a Consent Decree, i mean when they apply for it. When they apply for the multijust Multijurisdictional Task force. We had a guy killed by ice. Days before the information was released. No transparency. Agencies of the other said this young man had a weapon to i dont know whether he did or not. The prosecutor did not go 113 days,th it, but family members who saw the shooting had to wait before they could get information. Money i, that know some of them are decent and some are not, but the money should be withheld until such time as there is some clarity about shooting confrontations. I will close with this. What is policing . In detroit we have an entity that is not police. We have it is like a Public Safety entity that you can establish police authorities. They are sometimes run by security guards. We have a guy named dan gilbert buying up the property in detroit, he has police authority. In the future you will see it more. More of that. Diminishment of what we call Public Safety and Law Enforcement and more of the police authorities. As we look at policing, we ought to expand our framework in terms of how we deal with this matter. I want to say frankly that i do not use the term police that much more. I use Public Safety. If you havent read it, sir robert keele, officers know what i am talking about, the nine principles of policing. In what became the London Metropolitan Police Department and said, the people are the police and the police are the people. You have to put big mama back in the equation. You have to make sure that we resolve these things ourselves and we have to make sure were strong in resolving our conflicts as we are talking about the Police Shooting us. International, we had a case with a kid that was killed, Taser International does virtually all of the video in relationship to the weapons and they are getting rich in their major bobbys. Cams,e talk about body think about you dealing with a multibilliondollar industry. Lets see some folks that do the same thing that have a more progressive agenda. I say to you goodbye and good luck in your communities with oversight because you must have oversight. If you dont have that more than a review board, coleman alexander, the late mayor of detroit started the police commission. It has subpoena power and deals with hiring. It deals with the fact that we are underdeveloped economically, jones,efore, when john like in bloomfield hills, a kid ,alks on the street with a gun because he has open carry rights they dont shoot the kids, they dont taken to jail, he wins. Why . Because john joness parents live on lone pine road and they have money. If that cop does anything he will not have a job. We need to get to that economic point that booker t. Washington said, the bottom of everything is economics. If we control economics, we control our community. [applause] questions e title of the book is how to and police brutality. Questions fore our distinguished brain trust and panel. With this one and then i would like for hillary and dr. Davis to respond as well. If we imagine that there is racism in policing and i think we do not have to imagine, why would we also imagine there isnt racism in housing, education, health care and employment. If there is racism in all of these things upstream before contact with Law Enforcement, how is it that they have avoided the spotlight yucca spotlight . I ask this first array, then ray, then first to hillary then dr. Davis. How do we include this the broader history of racial oppression and racial accountability . And ferguson, it was mikes body in the street that got people in the street. It was something about the physical presence of the oppression of the police. The issue of Police Violence is often a proxy for the other ways that the state is violent to people and it is a visceral is itto education is a visceral reminder. Education is amorphous. Housing is amorphous. I dont think people are ignoring it, but i do think this is a place to start. I am mindful of the fact that it was the terror of police that got people into the streets. It is important that we use this to talk about broader understandings of violence. It is about more than broken bodies, it is about broken futures and broken homes. We have to talk about that and the conversation is not as complex as it could be when we talk about the range of violence but the police are like an entrance because they are the visceral reminders of how the state oppresses people. Let me begin by saying a number of things, the issue of racial profiling has been going on for some time. First the clinton ministration was extremely helpful in bringing together major conference with Law Enforcement and Community Organizations and others. Emphasis thathat i spoke to janet reno. She made it very loud and clear that if we talk about policing, we have to address this issue of racial bias and policing. Saidwas the 90s and she it cannot be effective if we do not have the establishment of the trust and integrity by Law Enforcement officials. These men and women we were seeing before you, personified that trust and integrity necessary. Expand toone, it does other areas. Extraordinary that secretary caster was at the end of the lacey p convention this summer. P was at the end of the lacey Naacp Convention this summer. What this means is if you cannot show intent to discriminate, if you cannot read someones mind, it is not discrimination. That is the argument that they make. Because of the work that was done by the previous secretary of housing and the present secretary of housing, the issue of the effect carries the day. Was, ifhat your intent it was discriminatory, it has to stop and people have to be held accountable. Those socalled resource officers are put in local schools. In thellenge Africanamerican Community is not a columbine problem. Our children get shot to and from school. The issues in school have to happen as well. When we talk about education as we move with depreciating budgets, that assistant principal for discipline was taken out of the occasion equation. Now they can do with the principal used to do except, they are not trained for that kind of counseling. When we talk about issues of criminality now, we ask the Group Reforms is officers, what was the number one reason you would arrest a kid or taken to jail . They say the number one reason is crimes of defiance. Crimes of defiance. That a kid going through puberty decides they would open their mouth and say the wrong thing at the wrong time and now it is a criminal offense. Those issues are still very much with us and we are very delighted that the assistant , did one for education of the consummate reports utilized. Employment plays a major role in this as well. It is no surprise to us as we talk about employment discrimination that we do have as long as this administration is in power. Tom perez sat down with us time and time again to talk about being able to more forcefully enforce antidiscrimination policies. Issue. Comprehensive withare all tied together racial and ethnic discrimination that is still unfortunately alive and well and causing havoc. [applause] i agree. I dont think it is forgotten. When we look at fighting crime and Crime Reduction what you are talking about is the if we try to arrest our way out of crime you are responding to the symptoms versus the root causes. We know that if a child does not read by third grade that the likelihood of incarceration goes exponentially. That once a child is suspended, the likelihood of incarceration gross. Grows. When you look at Crime Reduction you cannot take people to jail to disrupt those causes. A job for a person out of prison will reduce recidivism more than anything else. When we look at the system, we have to make sure. Too often we focus on individual officers. They need to be held accountable at a higher standard. Becausesystems in place the system was designed to have the outcome anyway. This system is on education. Quite frankly, the chief of police of today can be the loudest voice on Public Safety issues. ,dvocating for education advocating for jobs and social justice and making sure the community has the resources needed. If we are going to hotspot policing it should not be the cops or the crime but the resources. What about hundred jobs are hundred new teachers. Policing andnity if we do that, i would say that Community Policing cannot be done in isolation. It must be a subset of communitybased governance. From the council to the mayor and public works, everyone has something to do with Public Safety. Realize that than we that Police Reform really is about promote justice reform. We have to look at how we are putting people in jail, for how long and why. We have to look at what happens when we take a young person to jail. There is a lot of devastation that comes with existing policies and practices. We sometimes get a narrow focus of a much larger challenge although the police are the most visible form of government. Use of power is the use of force so it must be held accountable. [applause] the next question is for sure if napoleon is for sheriff napoleon. You have been integral in getting the Police Department to shift its culture to look at the importance of human dignity. Concretealk about things that Police Departments can do and that Community Activists will demand that will incentivize the right kind of behavior and the right kind of mindsets. Things thate first i talked about early on is, we have to focus on who we bring into Law Enforcement. That has to be the fundamental first focus. We have to have solid recruiting efforts recruiting people into agencies that have the right temperament and tone and to understand the kind of commitment they need to the community. If you bring bad people into the agency you will have bad people in the agency. Recruiting is where we need to focus and the training and the mindset of the people who train. If you are rewarding and advocating a certain type of conduct i can tell you, any of us who have led a police agency, i had 5200 people. Now i have over 1000. Theyllars become scarce, cut back on the most fundamental things we try to do. Dont give you the time of need you need to make sure you are recruiting or training the right people. Not giving proper supervision and unfortunately, i have had people who control my budget say things Like Community outreach is not important. Im not talking about 10 years ago, im talking about in light of what is going on in the country today, commissioners have said, outreach, we dont have the money for that. You have to focus on those things and i will leave the chief to talk more. I could say ditto. It starts in training and it starts with understanding that we have a responsibility to talk about the training. How many of you are part of the training echo training . We made it very clear that we need you to help teach the Police Officers how to police. The other three quarters were learned working with you to we have close to 200 now. We have conversations about policing in neighborhoods. We have distinct policing methods. The nomenclature is different in every community. Our population has changed. We have an interland policing style and a suburban style and boutique policing. From is the specialization those downtown who pay higher rent and expect police to be there at the drop of a dime. What dotion becomes, you want in terms of accountability . Can we bring Children Home . We created juvenile detention facilities. Is it ok to put a young person in the car and bring them home. Can i talk to your children without appearing you saying dont talk to them, we dont snitch or talk to them about i want you to the a good man in the neighborhood. I dont want you to be afraid of me so i will face you as a 12yearold with a gun in your hand. I want you to understand that i care about you and i want to nurture you and make sure that you understand that i care. Lastly, at the end are you there to make sure the process is completed. We started in the 60s and we saw bad policing. We have to have accountability and people like hillary and others making sure we do it. I i could just amplify dont believe that a person who is willing to come into a community and release it should be unwilling to live in that same community. [applause] too many cop shows show the spirit of adventure. That is not reality. Most of it is monday. We have to talk about service. Distinctnow my pleasure to introduce the 83rd attorney general of the United States. For those of you who watched the nomination process, it seems like she was nominated april 27, 1915. She is a former u. S. Attorney and a twice over harvard , i feel and for me special kinship. A departmentited of justice that has done historic things and is in position to take this country in brandnew directions that will heal centuriesold damages. Please welcome loretta lynch. [applause] any second now. [laughter] spirit. He felt that in [inaudible] [applause] the fellow daughter of a North Carolina library and. Librarian. Ag lynch well, thank you all so much. Thank you so much for that warm welcome, thank you for your patience. Im not usually running this late. But i understand that you have had some excellent presentations before me. I see a number of old friends, and hopefully new friends on this panel. Great voices all, in our common struggle. And so i think you have had excellent presentations and im just sorry that i had to miss so many of them. I am so looking forward to hearing the recap of this because there are so many important issues here. Dr. Gough, such a pleasure to meet you. Your leadership at ucla on the center for policing equity is something that is not only vital, in terms of what we need today, it really is the key to a lot of the issues that we face. When im looking at the agenda for the entire cbc foundation events, i see so many different panels on so many different issues, but they all come together in regards to the central issue of our communitys relationships with Law Enforcement and with our government writ large. Aw enforcr government writ large. So many of the issues you are tackling all this week comes back to that essential issue. I thank you so much for giving me a few minutes to talk to you this afternoon about what the department of justice is doing in this important area. I view it as one of my main priorities as attorney general of the u. S. I know that congressman conyers had to go and vote. He is also pulled in many directions. I want to thank him and his staff for their invitation to this event as well as for setting up this particular panel, and of course the congressman lifetime of service to these issues. He has been in his fight for a long time. A long time. [applause] have many of you. Not just here on the panel, on the podium, but out here in the audience. I see a lot of fighters. I see a lot of people who have walked a lot of lines and walked the lot i thank you for that as well. [applause] whether you have been in the struggle for years, or whether you are new to it and part of the new and exciting and dynamic young voices that we need to tell us the truth i commend you, and i am so so glad to hear from you. Your commitment is important. Your ideas are important. Your energy and passion. Now is the time to come together around these important issues. While we have made extraordinary progress since the cbc was founded over 40 years ago, it is clear that we have so much more work to do. In the recent weeks and months, we have seen these reminders. Its not just the overall philosophy we always say this, more work to do. We have seen it played out in very stark and very painful reality. Captured for the world to see. We have experienced tragedies that make it clear that despite for our common welfare goes on. I will tell you that what hurts me so much in my current role is that we have seen the mistrust between our Law Enforcement officers and our Community Also deepen. At a time when, not that this hasnt always been the case, but at a time when our communities need the protection and the resources that Law Enforcement is committed and sworn to bring to bear. It has always been my view that the essential role, not just the government, but a Law Enforcement in particular, is the protection of people who dont have anyone else to call on. You know those times in the middle of the night, when people are cold and afraid, and they know that someone is out there that means harm, we need someone on hook to call. We have to be able to trust and rely upon those individuals to come when we call and to also look out for us when they do arrive. This is an issue i know youre talking about today, not just on this panel, but so many others. But you have the voices to do it. You have the experience and you have the people who provide you the perspective of what it feels like to be left out of that dynamic of protection, to be left out of the umbrella and that circle of partisanship that every american is entitled to. Circle of guardianship. Althougha new issue, its an issue that is very deep and personal for me. Some of you may know, i am fortunate enough to have my father here with me this week. [applause] this issue is generations old. When i was a young girl, one thing i remember my father telling me about you all talk about your grandparents and aunts and family lore. That is what makes you who you are. That is how you know what the lynches are like, and what the harrises are like. They are both stubborn, just so you know. [laughter] i recover my father telling me about his father. A minister, thirdgrade education, eight children, dirt poor, living in rural North Carolina in the 1930s. Even with all of those things stacked against him, he built his own church beside his house. He called it lynchs chapel. One of the things that my father remembers is that there were times when he was a young boy in the 30s in the 1930s when those black people in the community were in trouble. As my grandfather used to say, caught up in the clutches of the law. They would come to my grandfather and he would help hide them until they could leave the community. Sometimes a sheriff would come by the house and asked my grandfather, gus, have you seen so and so . My grandfather would say, well not lately. [laughter] soandso is hiding under the four boards. In those days, in 1930s North Carolina, there was no justice in the dark of night on a rule road. New miranda warnings, no procedural protections no miranda warnings, none of the things we take granted for today. Sometimes in order to preserve the fight for justice into the future, you have to take action in the moment. [applause] of course, these are much better now, and we all get reminded of that. When you talk about these issues, whether they are of race in general, or Police Issues in particular, when you talk about the current pain that the Minority Community is feeling and we are feeling deeply people say things are much better now. And they are. In addition to giving my apologies for being late today, i can tell you i was late because i had a meeting with the president that ran over. I would never have been able to say that even five years ago. And the fact that my grandfather, who fought so hard for justice in his own way, whenever have conceived that his granddaughter, the little girl he used to take out in the fields and show what tobacco looked like, would actually be sitting in a meeting with the president of the United States. We have come so far, but we still have so far to go. These issues of fundamental fairness and the relationship that the Minority Community has with government writ large and those of us in Law Enforcement in particular are stil with us. They are still important today. We all understand on a personal level, the frustration that comes up when we are treated unfairly because of race. This is really about more than just that. This is really about being treated unfairly because of race, by those who are sworn to protect you. By those who wear the uniform of protection. This is really a deeper issue than just the individual determination many of us have seen. We are talking about the pain that comes up when a deeply rooted in justice gets shrugged off and ignored. We are in a different time, and things are much better, even if they may not seem that way. Even if it seems like this is a very painful time, because we are seeing these issues so much more clearly. I can tell you that this takes me back to the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. You were member those days, when people were marching and protesting and talking about conditions. You couldnt vote, couldnt get a job, couldnt sit in a store and just take a break and have a couple coffee. No one wanted to believe that that was the case until the advent of television. Remember the televised marches and the protests. When the world saw what was happening, that police dogs were put on little children, that fire hoses were used against young men and women, that to galvanized the conscience of the world and gave the movement a momentum to make changes. To give us a civil rights act. To give us a Voting Rights act. To give us desegregation. To help us crack those strategies that lawyers used before the Supreme Court. Now we are in a similar moment. When so many of the images that we see are so painful. But they are being used to show the world what people in the Minority Community have known for years. About the Different Levels of interaction and Different Levels of both respect and participation in the system that africanamericans have and feel. As painful as it is to watch someone suffering or possibly eveni dying, the result has been an opening of the discussion in ways that we have not had years. Th e onus is on us to seize this moment. The onus is on us to continue this discussion, to continue this debate. Now the world knows what we always knew. That people in ferguson were being taxed for walking down the street and being the wrong color. The world knows what we always knew, that young men of colors interactions with the police are fundamentally different than other children. And that as parents and siblings and as family members, that we have a responsibility to point this out and to talk about it as well as educate our children. But we also have to acknowledge more than just the action, but that there is something that goes on as well. Something that is deeper when we have these situations. We have to knowledge anger and despair, the feeling is that develop. 0 feelings that develop. People talk about wanting us to handle things in a certain way. This country was built on peaceful protest. It is a fundamental right of ours and has achieved a great deal of change. We also have to knowledge the anger and despair that develop when these concerns that we now see on tape are still pushed aside by so many people as if they dont exist. You have to knowledge the kind of pain that develops. You have to knowledge that feeling. People say, i dont think it was that bad. I dont think they meant it that way. Happen. That didnt it didnt even happen. When that happens to people, to a people, to our people, time and time again, you have within our communities a sense of disconnection and despair that is as dangerous as any bullet or club. It absolutely is. [applause] but of course, im not the first to note that. I would refer you back to that work of art by ralph ellison, invisible man. You will see all of that there. You will see the consequences of it as well. The reason why we have to face this and deal with these issues, because as always, with the issues now its our children will bear the brunt of these issues. Its our children who are growing up without that sense of connection, without the sense of protection and security that they are entitled to have. And we want them to have it. One of the things im doing is a six city Community Policing tour. Im going to different jurisdictions that have had troubled and challenging relationship between the police and community, between 510 years ago. Either a lawsuit, shooting incident. The department of justice has had to come in and use persuasion or litigation in order to manage unconstitutional policing practices. There are jurisdictions that have turned the corner. Talking about how and why that is case. Things are still not perfect. There are people that feel on the fringes of all we are trying to achieve for them. Those are the voices that i want to hear the most. Those of the voices that i have to address. In pittsburgh i was talking to young people, high school students. They will tell you whats happening in their daily lives. They will tell you what they see. More importantly, how it makes them feel. I was talking to a young man who told me he was afraid to walk in his particular pittsburgh neighborhood. He described it as a fairly rough neighborhood. He