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I think that is not an issue. To agree with the attorney general that there is not systemic racism in Law Enforcement . Of us do not most really understand the definition of systemic racism. It changes based on the conversations. What i would suggest is that you look at the racial outcomes. Is during this to race in some of the outcomes in Law Enforcement . I think the answer is yes. Can we reduce that so we are no longer battling the question of the definition of systematic or systemic racism . I think answer is yes. But theres no question that the outcomes seem to have a racial component. And that is why we are working on getting all of the information and then retraining and then eliminating those Police Officers who have a pattern of misbehavior. We are back and we are joined by christy lopez, the codirector of the Georgetown University law school innovative policing program
We will talk about the proposals to defund the police and what that means. Christy, good morning. Guest good morning and thank you for having me. Host you are the codirector of the Innovative Policing Program at georgetown law school. What exactly is that . Guest that is something i started with some of my colleagues who have a background in policing. One of them is a professor, also a reserved Police Officer. We do a number of programs trying to get police to speak differently about their professions. We call it the police for tomorrow program. It is a program for officers to bring them together once per month and have them ask some of the hardest questions about policing and talk about how it impacts their life and doing something about it. Whereabouts a starter program, able active bystander support Law Enforcement. It is really meant to get at one of the issues that was so tragically relevant in the george floyd killing, trying to help officers do a better job intervening to preven
Pursuit of meaningful change both in the wake of george floyd step and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all for joining and i want to thank jean henning for her organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtable repressor Christy Lopez. Professor lopez joined our faculty in january 2017 right after completing a federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will goodwill serving of the Department Just a Civil Rights Division she led that investigation and many others to examine patterns and practices of unconstitutional policing across the country including in new orleans, los angeles and ferguson. Since joining our faculty professor lopez has cofounded our Innovative Policing Program which is now launching a Prevention Program called abler active bystander ship for recently professor lopez has written up that somehow the Police Culture could have saved George Floyds life and what the funding of pol
International studies hosted the discussion. Steve welcome to todays Bob Schieffer series, conversation on covid19 societal instability, where are we steve welcome to todays Bob Schieffer series, conversation on covid19 societal instability, where are we heading. I want to offer special thanks to the foundation that supports this series, as well as the Schieffer School of communications at tcu. Several staff here at csis have worked hard to pull this together. Emma, among the foremost of the staff, made this possible. We also have travis hopkins, Clifford Johnson special thanks to them. Susan, thank you, and over to you. Susan thank you so much, steve, and to everyone who is joining us on this incredible allstar panel of experts we have with us today. I cannot think of a group that as a citizen, and not just as an observer, im hoping you can help us provide, if not definitive answers, at least some thoughts on what the path ahead looks like, recognizing we are in a world where we could