Community-Based Alternatives to Policing

This session is eligible for  1.0 Standard CLE credit and Social Work CEUs.

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About this session:

This session was part of the MNJRC's 2023 Re-Imagining Justice Conference. To learn more about the annual conference, please visit: https://www.mnjrc.org/re-imagining-justice-conference

This session discusses alternatives to policing, in which the panelists envision community safety that includes the wellbeing of all our neighbors. These solutions are intended to divert from touches with the criminal legal system and ultimately support more trauma-informed, holistic, and culturally responsive approaches to safety. The panel aims to cover at least three primary community alternatives to policing, including a current mental health first responder team being dispatched by 911 in Minneapolis.

The other programs they discuss are currently being implemented in other cities, improved over time by community activists and scholars. The goal is to promote fruitful conversations and action to push for viable alternatives alongside the current policing reforms being implemented in the Twin Cities. They further expand beyond alternatives that singularly rely on other professions that still have historically harmful relationships to communities (e.g., social workers, psychologists). Additional topics covered by panelists include restorative justice, community engagement, and cross-sector partnerships.

Presenters:

--Marci Exsted, MSW, LGSW, Research Associate, Urban League Twin Cities Center for Social Justice

--Dr. raj Sethuraju (he/they): community-centered justice practitioner.

--Candace Hanson, MA, LPCC,

--Alvin P. Akibar, PhD, Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Policy, and Advocacy at Urban League Twin Cities.