The Future of Policing in America: A Third Rail Conversation with Connie Rice

This Third Rail dialogue tackles the complex, urgent and difficult subject of racism and policing. Connie Rice is a lawyer, author, and public intellectual of national renown for fighting systemic injustice with coalition lawsuits that have won over $10 billion in damages and policy changes that helped millions in poor neighborhoods. Rice’s advocacy has earned over 50 major awards and prompted Los Angeles Magazine to call her “the voice for LA’s oppressed.” A member of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Rice is a national figure in police reform and a leading expert in changing police culture. Her unique work galvanized the police, poor residents, gang interventionists, and government agencies to jointly transform inner-city safety to help end LA’s gang homicide epidemic. Moderated by Tricia Rose, Director of CSREA and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University.
Presented by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University on May 5, 2021.
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