LawTalk Ep. 9 - Transforming Public Safety: Changing the Law to Make Policing More Accountable

his episode Transforming Public Safety: Changing the Law to Make Policing More Accountable, Equitable, and Just discusses what states and municipalities can do to reduce the harms of policing and promote a more holistic vision of public safety. The program features three national policing experts on the next steps for reform: Maria Ponomarenko , Associate Professor of Law at Minnesota Law. She is the Co-founder and Counsel at the Policing Project at NYU Law, and an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law: Policing project. Monica Bell, an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her areas of expertise include criminal justice, welfare law, housing, race and the law, qualitative research methods, and law and sociology. And Walter Katz, Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. He has more than two decades in public service, beginning with a 17-year tenure as a public defender in Southern California through his 2017 appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff for Public Safety in the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. This event was sponsored by the University of Minnesota Law School Board of Advisors and Academic Engagement Committee This event was recorded on May 20, 2021. Learn more about the University of Minnesota Law School by visiting law.umn.edu and following Minnesota Law on Twitter twitter.com/UofMNLawSchool. Find a transcript of this podcast at: https://z.umn.edu/Ep9Transcript