ABA is on a ‘promising path forward,’ President Patricia Lee Refo says
ABA President Patricia Lee Refo addressed the House of Delegates remotely during their session at the midyear meeting.
Since taking office, ABA President Patricia Lee Refo has maintained a schedule of events that would ve once been unimaginable.
She told the House of Delegates at the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday that in 2½ consecutive days last fall, she spoke at virtual events hosted by the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Union Internationale des Avocats in Paris. She also, from her kitchen, attended the annual state bar conventions in both Connecticut and Wyoming.
Reimagining Policing: Organizations and activists help drive law enforcement change
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Intersection is a column that explores issues of race, gender and law across America’s criminal and social justice landscape.
A new administration means a new approach to justice issues in America, but it remains to be seen what actions will be taken amid clamors for reform. There have been months of protests over police brutality and continued killings of Black people at the hands of law enforcement. And while President Joe Biden conducts triage, activists are seeking substantive change.
Liane Jackson
Policing in America is in crisis. This is not a controversial observation, a revelation or an alternative fact. Communities of color are overpoliced and brutalized. Law enforcement officers feel increasingly unappreciated and under attack. America has an unregulated and broken police system that must be overhauled. U.S. law enforcement needs a radica