I recently gave a talk titled “Acknowledging the shared history of police-minority community relations: A review of the past with a look towards future reconciliation” at the the University of Texas at El Paso’s (UTEP) “Justice on the Border: Scholarship on the experiences of marginalized groups in the US justice system” event. It was a virtual conference hosted on October 9, 2020. A link to my presentation can be found here.
The information presented in the talk was a culmination of my thoughts, discussions with friends/family, and research/readings from summer 2020 in the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. An annotated version of the talk (with References and links) can be found here.
It is my hope that the talk can be used as a springboard for further discussions to bridge the gap between police and the community.
*I’d like to thank Natalie Todak (@naturally_crime) and Obed Magny (@DrObedMagny) for reading and providing feedback on a previous version of the speech.