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Great to hear NYS AG @TishJames, State’s Attorney for Baltimore @MarilynMosbyEsq, and @BasilSmiklePhD discuss “Building Trust Between Police and the Communities They Serve” (hosted by @ColumbiaSIPA). Sharing a thread of key @CalifLRev pieces in reaction to the discussion.
For a glimpse into the racist origins of policing, read Fanna Gamal’s ( @BerkeleyLaw ‘16) Note “The Racial Politics of Protection: A Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization.” 104 @CalifLRev 979 (2016).
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Related to “catch-and-release” crimes and the disparate impacts by race, read Prof. Devon W. Carbado’s ( @UCLA_Law) “From Stopping Black People to Killing Black People: The Fourth Amendment Pathways to Police Violence.” 105 @CalifLRev 125 (2017). https://bit.ly/3gJ29vB
NYS Attorney General @TishJames noted that “police cannot police themselves” and that we need to “democratize NYPD.” Specifically, the general public should be involved and power over hiring/firing, discipline, etc. should not be concentrated under the NYPD commissioner.
For a nuanced discussion of community control and the distribution of power, read Profs. @ksabeelrahman & @j_simonson's ( @brooklynlaw) “The Institutional Design of Community Control.” 108 @CalifLRev 679 (2020). https://bit.ly/38G1vMB
State’s Attorney for Baltimore @MarilynMosbyEsq noted that, to change our current culture of policing, we could start all over (like Camden, NJ) or move more incrementally through focusing on accountability.
On conceptualizing the future of policing, read @BerkeleyLaw ‘16 alum Asher Waite-Jones’s ( @EBCLCNews) recent post “Fire to the Precincts: Imagining a Future without Police” for @CalifLRev’s blog series on policing and race. https://bit.ly/38EKz9B
NYS Attorney General @TishJames’s closing exhortation: "I am drunk on hope, always. . . . Change is coming. All change in this country doesn't come from elected officials. It comes from people protesting in the streets."
State’s Attorney for Baltimore @MarilynMosbyEsq’s closing word: “We need real leaders on the front lines, demanding change.” She quoted Charles Hamilton Houston in saying that “‘lawyers can be social engineers or parasites on society.’ Be social engineers." [End of thread.]
