Hosted by the Deason Center, and facilitated by Professor Pamela Metzger, Professor Kami Chavis and Walter Katz, discussed barriers and solutions to police accountability, with particular attention to police culture, the power of police unions, and governance and previewed their corresponding essays, which will be published this summer in Issue 74.3 of the SMU Law Review.
The CJR Conversations are an SMU Law Review and Deason Center virtual symposium series featuring professors and practitioners in conversations about criminal legal reform.
Panelists:
Vice Provost, Professor of Law, and Director of Criminal Justice Program, Wake Forest University School of Law
Walter Katz
Vice President of Criminal Justice, Arnold Ventures
Pamela Metzger
Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law
Resources:
Curbing Excessive Force: A Primer on Barriers to Police Accountability
Kami N. Chavis & Conor Degnan (Reference Link: http://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Curbing_Excessive_Force.pdf)
Police in America: Ensuring Accountability and Mitigating Racial Bias Feat. Paul Butler
11 Nw. J.L. & Soc. Pol’y. 385 (2017) (Reference Link: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njlsp/vol11/iss4/3/)
Arnold Venture’s Walter Katz on the Current State of Police Reform in America
(Reference Link: https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/video-avs-walter-katz-on-the-current-state-of-police-reform-in-america)