Preparing the next generation for activism and healing. Invite you to explore each of the sessions on our website. But today the panel of legal experts will focus on what it means and what it doesnt mean and what Public Safety can look like without policing as we know it today ls. The series is to educate those in pursuit of meaningful change in the wake of George Floyds death and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in ourin country. I want to thank you all again for joining and also for the leadership to organize this series. Now let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtabl roundtable, professor laporte on lopez joined january 2017 might after completing a federal investigation to the Chicago Police department while serving with the department of justice civil rights commissionon leading the investigation and many others to examine patterns andat practices of policing across the country including new Orleans Los Angeles and ferguson professor lopez is now launching a Peer Intervention Program those are active bystanders for Law Enforcement recently professor lopez has written an opeds that could have saved George Floyds life and the thought i was funding the police really means i will turn it over to you. Thank you so much i appreciate the support you have shown on the issues and work to make all of this happen also thank you to all the viewers who joined today with the need to educate ourselves more on these issues and you are taking at the time to do that. I appreciate that. I speak for the panel when i say that as well with the policing project i would like to invite everyone to turn on their cameras as i introduce the purpose of the panel and give a roadmap for what we will talk about today. Since George Floyds death at the hands of any hapless police and the protests have followed on may 25th that seemed there would be a seachange underway with policing missing protest across the a United States n95 percent of americans believe in Police Reform in some capacity as necessary. That is unprecedenteded from a change conducted just five years ago. One of the things that many people find encouragingd about this conversation about Police Seeing is that there is no recognition we have to look beyond policing and question the assumptions my what we mean by Public Safety and achieve it. We have to confront the fact, the criminalizing poverty and making 10 million arrests per year end mass incarceration have not provided the Public Safety even as the approach has caused tremendous harm in the committee. There is no question that it was activism forced the country to have them part conversation when they seized the moment to elevate the nonstanding defending the police and police evolution. But as many of you know, there has been with potential Police Reform. What we will discuss today is how police appellations is not a slogan, it had its roots in the framework. It had its roots in is really positive in redemption. And for what to him about Sexual Violence and murder and to help fight these in a World Without police is constituted. If you leave here with nothing also help you get a greater appreciation for the framework in the mostly black, female thinkers who developed it. Were gonna start with the idea of Police Abolition into this contemporary framer and everything he had made a lawful and executive director, he is brilliant and energetic Police Actively provided community being defensive created a group to greet me differently, directly from the doctors about the in the place and prevent failed to do what they think that they dont actually think think is community is lacking in one letter simply if you look around the discriminant arbitrary protesters in individual, a form of accountability and the solidarity with officers committed acts of violence reports and officer shoppers work on the nation a lot of cupid and conviction in my honest assessment. I got myself in many, but for leslie and her experience, event event to fill the community, have unico Everything Community not to receive not only makes a supported continue feeling that the reductive i for the killings, burmese it was the big 3. 4 times greater demand upon receipt when you create justice for the family broken apart by the violence of the wickedness, the decision to not think very confident return based on a principle is to make if i think about leslie, remember they could create an opportunity to be a fine predictive of the filing things like mental and provided percolation, finding a kiss person who has killed his primary breadwinner for the family like torchlight or eric garner, a applicator entering data such as defendant, we and conceptualize my wanting when it came to dangling, George Zimmerman for others. Permitting the above as an important principle to understand when poker are great for abolition, is a very generous argument, big, concretely while argument from the left grammatical is an argument from people that did interior work, spiritual work which allows them to move past the desire for revenge, this is not just the way to my company vocally killing when you talk about racing antiracism orbits about, around the country are around the world are copied that we can enter my adjustment recognized, got mine pocket about traffic and the more clearly and i went underscore, the local victims. In fact we overwhelmingly are centers of goods community is a many to turn away we turn away from that, i figure something truly profound about us, telling point you may thank you very much and the many pink college and audience protecting time giving idea. I want to begin recognizing the ability of appraising against three conduct around the room and at the same time there and thoroughly gathering executive order related to Police Proposal to reduce Police Restrictions around the country. Proposal there and curtail the demand for abolition of the Current Movement that jackson has just begun to talk about. , more than 500 years of exploitation about beloved Indigenous Community and other marginalized people. The abolition is not only about painting or even prefunding and analogical greenery. To get the root of the doctors to get medical team trip, not reform it will require policing and illegal but numerous other domains that uphold deepseated Structural Racism and violence. It is also possible that this is fatal to bring about much change by Fourth Avenue limited reform and committed to preserving the status quo. Abolitionist copper more training of police contemplated by the company speaking by congress as one Abolitionist Organization in more formations like abolition have unexploited. Trump and the legislation proposed by parties speak to band chuckle, eric garner like killed by a chokehold in the jurisdiction that prohibited chokehold. Moreover even if the please comply with the trabant, a prohibit neardeath experiences perpetrated by police. These reforms have failed to bring about meaningful change reductive. Appointment congress is proposed for example the military in the police, indeed immunity would be set for the right direction abolition offers something else, not reflected in these majors, a call to move away from policing application imprisoned injustice for the puddle economy, and thick copper abolition for the independently. There is called for radical change because we need radical change because of the rings and structurally i was a month before every election becoming a five people and a chicago, abolitionist person path in 2013. This preparation provided financial please protect, educational content abolitionist organized the organism abolitionist in aim for a positive vision of justice beyond criminal prosecution and punishment. Years later abolitionist is bracketed depression the Defendant Police campaign and pushed for budgeting. The budgeting is another positive project which allows the city of chicago or d. C. Or brazil or one of the origin i entered direct public spending equally with Public Health, portable housing, communitybased organization addressing, alternative First Responders to what from all solidarity, the economy, Community Land trust and wait for military and regionalized policing heating. In other words handinhand with the demand for abolition is dependably who had long been called black community to create a job in equitable economic and political order but ill talk you for pointing out a couple of things, more conflict in some of this amendment and abolition living. Only partly about defending and building upon community including very important. Were going to turn to not, Regulatory Reform as you pointed out in my formative term referring in the Building Congress is not when burnout and what that means for the spring before we go there today not both, i wanted to deeply enter the intellectual history. Imported democratic framework, not specified because its something that has been lifted from any of the conversations that we have had, not surprisingly since many of the people have never heard of before. May 25, theyre just starting to figure out what this means. You tell us how Police Abolition thick into the broader tradition and what that means. Why dont i start with the adjustment, talk a little bit about. I think it is significant to note that the history of abolition of the United States history of constitutionalism. In fact there is an article that was published a long, primarily black and black women acted upon. Kevin is a long history at the collective evolution. That are geared to the country that was built on the idea of freedom, the systems that are in freedom and the truth sent which we recycl profile, what we convh you hope to create that communities are targeted for inperson overlap allowing them to tradition interested criminalization productivity, i imperative, something that invented in 2020. The history of scholarship on abolition which is the expert on, and the history of legal work abolition. Evolving creating framers. Abolitionist length reimagining bring chris reimagining our economy when we were talking about abolition for this placement, reimagining, reimagining education and of course, reimagining Public Safety. Because different systems at an abolitionist plan historically has helped to reinvent, everything that is the length of the history and is the most recent incarnation of using the land reinvent the fence that intersects about a light. Thank you so much for flaking that out in the compositional law and taking, many of the people are future lawyers or lawyers and my reason for the loss because i think he, not this accident and cannot Work Together and regret a wonderful constitutional and the idea behind it she thought about they really reimport very problematic it can affect. One of the places in the legal field must look as active as injected and prosecuted i know reality is not simple, i know you have something to her as long i know others in the end, i think it important to think about Investment Organization during evolution at work and communicate and that weve been doing outward in our communities for a long time. It is really important that we recognize bessies call for abolition are coming for temperaments from community by increasing when we think about the concerns about crime and what we will do about unpaid neighborhood. People are in these neighborhoods and investing in scientific, i think alpine woman my organization nvc or collective action for faith in you are conducting. Physical labor and building a community and how many of these organizations are saying police are not helping attend the prophets. They are not helping build these neighborhoods. , it is important to believe in length materials seven think about the longterm. That we have incredible adolescent leader in our Community Preventive abolitionist leaders iv meds ran away that they are referring to as a vision as building neighborhoods and communities where police are no longer neck with a paper is not what we rely on in order to keep up date. Emily think about investing in communities of slavery, of extraction every person that organization that are at the forefront and have to be the first place that we listed. And really think about the reinvestment of funds from divesting from current departments. A lot of the local organization are not national and dont get much sparkle and shine like these and i dont have any listed outline talk about craig that one up at the top of google with research celebrates organization, that a volunteer line and many have been shot out at the nonprofit Industrial Complex that you not have a connection to well in defending that will help them bring their organization and the work that they are doing honest to scale. Anything to add to what it look like in real life . Be met to building on death and in his comments, and to identify two specific genealogy at separate Abolitionist Movement first black feminist and other women of color, they barely even mentioned as well as rachel, him and others, and work with the abolitionist but their intellectual work on investment and violence and the failure to respond, these organizers were concerned color, and other colors faith when police can prevent more harm in response to interpersonal violence are many failed to respond at all. Your organization back in fact, freedom of covered confinement and labors that i punish them in a negative that the black panther another flat radical korean lot in that organization inc. And pioneer with breakfast programs and promote public, cowpox. Ellipsis and Community Policing back of anything can happen in this project got radical, were also active in her book for 20 years, usually david located great contemporary interconnected struggles against slavery, materialism, the victorian structural effect connection to the work not work, gave estelle doctor every construction invisible working many people were forthcoming on princely terminal legal system penalized three black people in popular failure of the popular project, how to create a social order within the opportunity barely that record rachel present and have an operator without policing that we witness within the horrific murder of george floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many others. In the black abolition tradition and for the infant has to be economic if, when digested economic misery and explication and other marginalized people in this country and around the room historically and presently. Abolitionist about 50 and recorded in this project but also international as we begin a podcast with intercept this to be linked and attacked as well. It is okay rachel capitalism, tourism at home and around the world and whether a brandnew deal, raphael, but represent, monetary. These are all abolitionist recognize that is connected and Indigenous Community and other marginalized people and abolition abolishment the economic order into create an equitable political and economic order i in and sent. You have given us a lot of information about what the listening abolitionist. Although this is the how that, we will provide a list of everybody who registered getting email and you asked in the q a for my reading done with and we will violate as well. Lets move might actually do this. I want pot, 50 state, we do not have a national policing, the only National Internet everything that is not regulatory or specifically decrease abolitionist making different in every place. There is no right answer to what this will look like. That is why so important that we talk about the physical and we move on how you can keep that in mind to navigate the assistance as you attempt to look at changing policing back speaking out as a Police Report for indexing. To me in many respects effectively seems like a natural, at least to some extent depending. Based on what we have learned about what works and does not work. We have to stop Public Safety eggs into the criminals at the basket that is the baby became quite clear and was brought home in chicago for a lot of the reason. A lot of people agree with that. Is the chief of police who is the head of the Parental Organization of the major City Association had any response at a sentimental element and violent for thumping others. Only laudable but absolutely necessary longterm goal. No it not respect the 50 untamed 15 radical to me. Obviously another respect of the listeners framework is farreaching and the call policing to other person, dustin told us about that of how we organize as often i really however, the senate report. Defined as the fittings all the and how likely response to problems like domestic violence, Sexual Violence, homicide in the world in different than expected. A critical resistance that compared abolitionist report to reformist reforms and people might want to look at later but its something that we might have about right now. Lets talk with you justin, specifically how is reform and abolitio