Roundtable: Critical Issues in Policing

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

This roundtable session will engage in critical discussion on several important issues confronting American policing. Roundtable panelists will each discuss underpinning issues such as the intersection of race and policing, and strategies focusing on how the police might be able to gain trust and legitimacy in historically marginalized communities they serve. Panelists will also discuss the role of recruitment, selection, and training of neophyte and veteran police officers in facilitating systematic changes in police departments.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Michael L. Birzer, Wichita State University

Discussants

• Melissa Swauncy-Coleman, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Hassan Ramzah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• George Ebo Browne, DOJ / OJP / Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Joshua J. Davis, Texas State Universtiy

• Jordan Issac Cline, Wichita State University