Co‐facilitators: Joseph “Jazz” Hayden and Daryle Brown co‐facilitators
Resolutions of the working group:
1. Modify the way confessions can be obtained and used, eliminating police confessions as evidence.
2. How to raise awareness of mental health issues and the effect on incarceration rates and community surveillance.
3. Improve police accountability to the community, police relations with the community, including community surveillance to document police activity.
4. Education on how to respond to police stops and arrests.
5.Enhance networking and communications of regional/local best practices for solutions.
Solutions/Actions to Address Goals
1. Confessions – 18USC242 (federal statute)
a. Research into other places where police confessions are not allowed
b. Design model legislation or policies to that can be tweaked for regional/local
c. Attack on various fronts with legislation or law suits
d. Develop a fact based media campaign, including competent street level spokespeople
e. Develop street level strategy
2. Mental Health
a. Recruit mental health expertise to quantify the issue and define demographics, particularly children/youth
i. Use
public
health
students
to
investigate
and
write
papers
on
this
subject
b. Develop
economic
models
focused
on
life
time
supports
versus
incarceration
expensec. Develop policy models to launch in various locations
d. Develop national media campaign and recruit mental health/human interest spokespeople
i. Include
investigation
of
mental
health
as
it
impacts
post
incarceration,
families
of
the
incarcerated
e. Develop
street
level
strategy
models3. Improve Police Accountability
a. Police Surveillance
i. Work
with
Joseph
Hayden
to
document
the
process
of
video
surveillance
of
police
that
was
developed
to
end
Stop
and
Frisk
in
NY
ii. Build a model that can be shared with communications nationally
iii. Develop a media campaign and tools to support local communities in their efforts to monitor police work
b. Police
Accountableii. Build a model that can be shared with communications nationally
iii. Develop a media campaign and tools to support local communities in their efforts to monitor police work
i. Research
“non-‐police”
review
boards
and
community
satisfaction
(Austin,
TX
for
example)
ii. Develop models of elected and civilian police review boards to be shared nationally iii. Develop grassroots strategies for implantation
4. Education
on
Police
Stops
and
Arrestsii. Develop models of elected and civilian police review boards to be shared nationally iii. Develop grassroots strategies for implantation
a. Develop a pocket guide (pdf) for national distribution
b. Use 411 pamphlet, document from (Austin, TX -‐ Nelson Linder) as model
i. Don’t
run .
.
.
ii. Don’t talk . . .
iii. Don’t smart off . . .
iv. Treat officer with respect . . .
5. Enhanced
Network
and
Communicationsii. Don’t talk . . .
iii. Don’t smart off . . .
iv. Treat officer with respect . . .
a. Develop a Google group to allow interested organizations to keep in touch and monitor progress on issues
To become involved in this working group:
Use the working groups sign-up form to select groups to get involved in.
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