Traditional proactive and reactive models no longer meet the needs of the modern police agency. Join us to learn how redefining the citizen-police relationship through intelligence-led policing, where technology uncovers new insights, analytics act as a force multiplier, and conversations are created with the community, will build the most important advantage - trust.

Participants will be introduced to the concept of "culture, rather than race" as a major determinant of "community", and will show how similarities between cultures can work to foster and enhance engagement strategies. Participants will learn to identify the single most important stakeholder in their community engagement strategy. Also explained will be the "paradoxical effect" of various community engagement strategies and why they lose effectiveness over time or are not at all accepted or embraced by the community. Participants will take home receive specific useful perspectives designed to facilitate agency self-reflection and formulation of strategies for their own individual agency.

In the past, some police agencies have been indifferent to civil rights. Others permitted the physical assault or murder of citizens of a different race or ethnic group. None of these actions occurred in a vacuum, but rather reflected the popular will of its citizens and in some cases the governing laws of that jurisdiction. 

The institutional memory of those unjust acts has begun to fade and is sometimes even unknown to today's new recruits. But attitudes and stories are passed down to future generations. That oral history has resulted in a pattern of distrust between the police and some of the communities they serve. These past civil rights injustices must be acknowledged by the current law enforcement. 

Hear from law enforcement and civil rights experts about how acknowledging the past can help heal community and how to use the foundation of history to begin building trust.

With the national focus on strengthening and sustaining community-police relations – including the principles of 21st-century policing – the need for real-world research and practical guidance on civilian oversight has increased significantly. Across the country, civilian oversight has been a powerful and invaluable tool for law enforcement agencies working to increase trust between police and the communities they serve and further the tenets of community policing.

National experts from policing and oversight will provide guidance on civilian oversight, current best practices, and how implementing and supporting civilian oversight can promote legitimacy and advance procedural justice for civilians, officers, and police executives.

While most policing agencies in the United States employ proactive policing strategies, the evidence as to their effectiveness is mixed and inconclusive. This panel will consider and discuss proactive policing strategies - such as community policing, problem-oriented policing, place-based or hot spot policing, and person-focused strategies - from a practical and an academic perspective to provide attendees knowledge that they can use to apply those strategies to best effect in their jurisdictions. Participants will discuss their hands-on experiences with and their tacit knowledge on the effectiveness of these strategies. A noted researcher will reflect on how those experiences relate to the current body or research in this area.