Chief Inclusion Office Weekly DEIB Resources Group Discussion on Police/Public Safety and Community Relations

Chief Inclusion Office Weekly DEIB Resources Group Discussion on Police/Public Safety and Community Relations
The Chief Inclusion Office offers a weekly resources announcement to the Clarkson Community.  The resources are meant to help people explore diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging [DEIB] for themselves, in their communities, and in our institution.  They may be resources that help you re-examine society and do some introspective reflection, explain core concepts like intersectionality or anti-racism, or practical guides for action, such as how to review a syllabus for equity-minded practice.

The resources are linked in the announcement and saved to a common google folder for all to reference, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a0DXWcmwl4a5zM5lMsBZR_7uk8_OZhIY?usp=sharing. If you would like to share thoughts on resources, please contact Diversity@Clarkson.edu.  We will also be using some of these resources as the basis of workshops and professional development throughout the year.

This week we offer resources on a particular conversational model for having difficult conversations and thinking about community and the specific topic of police, public safety, and community relations. 

Reminder that tonight is the Driving While Black, Part III webinar.
ADI Executive Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson will interview Dr. Lorenzo M. Boyd about police-community relations, urban policing, and diversity issues in criminal justice systems. Lorenzo M Boyd, Ph.D., is Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of New Haven, is a nationally recognized leader in police-community relations and an authority on urban policing, diversity issues in criminal justice, race and crime, and criminal justice systems. He served for 14 years in the Suffolk County (Mass.) Sheriff’s department – working in policing, corrections, and the courts – which he says shaped his approach to teaching, research, and training of police commanders and officers. https://www.theadkx.org/the-black-experience/
If you miss the live version you can view the recording too.

Thursday, August 13 at 6:00 pm
A Living Room Conversation is a simple way to heal divides and figure out next steps in both your personal and communal life for addressing tough issues. https://www.livingroomconversations.org

It is a conversational model developed by dialogue experts in order to facilitate connection between people despite their differences, and even identify areas of common ground and shared understanding.

Within this model, we have developed over 100 conversation guides on all sorts of topics that can otherwise be tense to talk about with friends, strangers, and even loved ones of differing backgrounds and political persuasions. You can join online conversation or host your own conversations https://www.livingroomconversations.org/host-toolkit/


Police and Community Relations
We all love our children and want our community to be safe. We have seen tragedy in our communities and want that to end. We all want law enforcement to be fair. And we want police to be able to do their job in a manner that is safe for them and the community. Let’s start with this as a given. Policing has become a point of discussion as violence crossing racial lines has provoked racial tensions and the mentally ill have in particular have a disproportionate loss of life in police interactions. Too often, the conversation remains paralyzed in fear or anger — with people unable to share deeply considered feelings and perspectives. We’re hoping these materials may contribute to a thoughtful exploration on this question. https://www.livingroomconversations.org/topics/police_community_relations/

Racial Equity Resources
https://www.livingroomconversations.org/talking-about-race/

Jennifer L. Ball, Ph.D.
Chief Inclusion Officer
Title VI, IX, ADA/504 Coordinator
Assoc. Professor HU/SS

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