Hello. With a bay area organization. Im going to talk about three stories which i think exhibit both Structural Racism this the system, dehumanization of clients in the system and implicit bias. As far as racism one of the things the community can do to understand what is going on is literally walk into any of the departments in the hall of justice and look at the individuals coming out and question whether this is explicit or implicit bias in arrests or charging or in negotiations or is it a question of putting resources in the wrong area . Maybe there should be more resources in Youth Development programs or things of that nature so young people are not caught up in the system. Dehumanization and imagine a situation where your young son or daughter has been accused of a homicide. A judge looked at the case and said there is no evidence and threw the case out and youre going to trial on a lesser charge and the District Attorney comes in and says sorry i am charging with a homicide aga
From seattle. Dan . As you said, chief carmen best the Seattle Police chief giving reasons for her resignation at a News Conference in seattle right now. She actually broke the news to members of her Department Last night. Writing, its time. Best has been at odds with the political leaders in seattle. Ever since the protest for Racial Justice began after the killing of george floyd. She defended the use of tear gas and nonlethal munitions to protect her officers while they deal with the often violent crowds. She opposed leading the pretinct that lead to c. H. O. P. Zone. The council made cuts anyway last night and never bothered to speak with her about how the cuts would affect public safety. The councilmember seemed more concern with the reaction from the protest groups demanding 50 cut. I think we have been able to reach a good initial package that lays the groundwork for transformative change to come in short order. Seattle is now one of the 20 cities that have cut the funding to th
And id like to begin by asking you what comes to mind when you think of that word . College. Fraternities. Initiation. Okay. All right. So it didnt take long for some images to pop into your head. And, thank you. And youre like many others who think about some common images as they relate to hazing. And one is young men in college fraternities, beating each other, passing out or even dying tragically from alcohol poisoning because of hazing. Also people think about professional athletes like last years headlines of the rookie Jonathan Martin of the Miami Dolphins and more recently people think sometimes about marching bands with the tragic death of drum major robert champion down at florida a m university. And now more recently over the past month weve heard news of a sexually harassing culture and hazing in the ohio state universitys marching band prompting them to fire the band director. While these images and headlines reflect realities of hazing, they only paint a partial picture.
If everyone can give another round of applause for darlene johnson. Apologize for the technical difficulties and thank you for rolling it with and going ahead and starting. I appreciate it. I just want to make sure that i give her a proper introduction. Darlene currently serves as the associate director in the office of violence against women. In this capacity, she supports the director and managing the Community Engagement division and implementing Grant Programs that respond to violence against women. So thank you. Now were going to hear from elizabeth allen. Dr. Allen is professor of graduate studies and Higher Education at the university of maine and director of stop hazing consulting. Dr. Allen was Principal Investigator for the National Study of student hazing and is currently directing the hazing prevention consortium. So lets give her a round of applause. Thank you. Can everyone hear me okay . Great. Its great to be here. Thanks so much for choosing to come to this session toda
Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the School System was not to this standard, i does not matter. Were not successful to bring them as much as we want. Do you want to talk about these issues . In terms of who revises the Afghan National army, in 2001, we had a plethora of offers. The pakistani, the indian, and the iranian fradkin to me and said it wanted to collaborate. I thought that we ought to try to devise some arrangement in which i and some limited aspe