Disability Advocates
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Us and Them?: Police-Community Relations
Representatives from Muslim American, LGBTQ, disability rights, and victims’ rights organizations—among others—will discuss police relationships with their respective communities. Broadening the lens from the black civilian/white police officer divide that has deservedly been the subject of much recent focus, this panel will analyze police-community relations more broadly and offer thoughts on what will be required to bridge divides.
Sasha Alexander, Director of Membership, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Leigh Ann Davis, Program Manager of Justice Initiatives, The Arc National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability
Chief Dean Esserman, New Haven Police Department
Mai Fernandez, Executive Director, National Center for Victims of Crime
Ramzi Kassem, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Susan Shah, Program Director, Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
Moderator: Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor, Yale University
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