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Police Accountability: Racism, Reforms and the Future

September 20, 2020 @ 9:30 am 10:45 am

Speaker(s): Lewis Katz, Professor, CWRU School of Law; Ronnie Dunn, CSU Associate Professor of Urban Affairs; Kareem Henton, Cleveland Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter

The U.S. has the highest prison population (2.3 million) in the world. Nationally, black men are almost 2 1/2 times more likely than white men to be arrested or killed by police. In Ohio 45% of the prison population is African American but they comprise only 14% of the state population. How can police embrace reforms, and create trust between residents and police?

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