President Jeremy Travis, Professor Delores Jones-Brown and Professor David Kennedy have each provided expert testimony before the Task Force on 21st Century Policing – established by President Barack Obama in December 2014. According to the Task Force website, it “seeks to identify best practices and make recommendations to the President on how policing practices can promote effective crime reduction while building public trust and examine, among other issues, how to foster strong, collaborative relationships between local law enforcement and the communities they protect.”

On February 24, President Travis testified in Washington, D.C. at the final Task Force listening session on the Future of Community Policing. To read his testimony, click here.

On February 13, at a listening session in Phoenix, AZ, Professor Jones-Brown of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration was part of a panel on Community Policing and Crime Prevention Research. Her presentation, titled “Neighborhood Policing: A Safe, Respectful and Effective Community Policing Strategy,” is available here.

Professor Kennedy of the Department of Criminal Justice, and Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, delivered testimony on Using Community Policing to Reduce Crime.  To view his remarks, click here.  

The information collected in these sessions will inform the Task Force in developing recommendations which will be presented to President Obama in March 2015.