SEPTEMBER: ARREST & PROSECUTION
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- Program Day Information
- Follow Up Discussion Information
- Optional Thursday Social Information
- Leadership Commitment Office Hours
Program Day –
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 8
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom (see reminder email or YW Boston Connect event page for meeting details)
Arrest & Prosecution presentation slides
Objectives
Our objectives are to
- Understand where public safety, crime, and race intersect
- Discuss impact of high-profile issues and public opinion trends on day-to-day efforts of police, district attorneys, and court system
- Identify action steps contributing towards inclusion and racial equity
Agenda
- 9:00 Welcome and opening
- 9:30 Panel with District Attorney Rachael Rollins
**Break** - 10:40 Small groups
- 11:10 Panel with Boston Police Department
**Break** - 12:00 Whole group
- 1:00 Close
Pre-work
- Time, A New Study Reveals that Not Prosecuting People for Nonviolent Misdemeanors May Actually Reduce Crime (PDF)
- [BPD culture] WBUR, Boston Detective Says Racism In BPD Is Evident, 1 Year After George Floyd (7-minute listen, article PDF)
- [Inequitable stops] GBH, Black People Made Up 70 Percent Of Boston Police Stops, Department Data Show (PDF)
- [Mental health] NBC Boston, Boston Reveals How It Will Change Police Response to Mental Health Crises (PDF)
- [Diversity in BPD] AP News, ‘We turn a blind eye’: Boston’s police remain largely white (PDF)
- [Police reform] NBC Boston, Measuring Progress On Police Reforms in Boston (2-min watch)
- WBUR, Police Reform On Paper Only Is Meaningless. We Need True Justice (PDF)
- Eastern Kentucky University, A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing
Additional recommended
- https://bpdnews.com/news/2021/5/25/boston-police-department-police-reform-efforts-update-may-25-2021
- https://www.wbur.org/npr/993518328/supreme-court-weighs-crack-cocaine-sentencing-disparity?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=5c5f93f45b-WBURTODAY_2021_05_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-5c5f93f45b-136034414
- [On intersectionality] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-black-women-are-often-missing-from-conversations-about-police-violence/
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-emerging-movement-for-police-and-prison-abolition
- [Mass arrest disparities] https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/massachusetts-police-data-points-to-racial-disparities-in-arrests/2344745/
- [Boston crime] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/29/metro/street-violence-is-up-throughout-us-not-boston/
Module 7: Questioning
In Module 7 (13:19), our facilitator Kevin discusses inclusive communication skills, focused around questioning, with the goal of 1) reviewing strategic questioning for social change and 2) deepening our understanding of the use of questioning through understanding Question Traps.
As you watch the video, take notes and pause at the questions to write in your LeadBoston journal.
Once you’ve finished the video, share your response to the Post & Share question as a comment to the pinned post in the YW Boston Connect LeadBoston 2021 group.
Post & Share: Think of a time where you and someone you were speaking with had differing views on a situation.
1. Identify an ideal conclusion for this conversation.
2. What type(s) of questions would you use to build consensus and arrive there?
Follow-Up Conversation Information
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 15
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)
Optional Thursday Social Information
Date: Thursday, Sep. 23
Time: 5:30 & on
Location: In-person, venue TBA
Leadership Commitment Office Hours
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 30
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)