2nd Annual Midwest Conference on 21st Century Policing: Building Trust and Legitimacy
- University of Wisconsin – Platteville
- Friday 16 September, 2016
- 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. in Velzy Commons
WHY you should attend this conference:
- YOU WILL LEARN: You are bound to learn something new.
- YOU WILL NETWORK: You get to know and meet other people interested in what you are.
- YOU WILL GAIN CONTENT: You will bring back new ways of thinking and doing.
- YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SHARE: You can share with others who couldn’t be here what you have learned. (More on this HERE.)
TENTATIVE AGENDA
7:30-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:45 Welcome from Chancellor Dennis J. Shields, Dean Melissa Gormley, Chair Staci Strobl
8:45-8:50 Master of Ceremonies, Nino Amato: Introduction to the Day
8:50-8:55 Student Introduction of Noble Wray
8:55- 9:10 Welcome Remarks from Noble Wray, Police Reform Specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), and former Police Chief of Madison, Wis.
9:10-9:15 Student Introduction of Dir. Chuck Wexler and Dr. Mark Bowman
9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker: Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF): “The New Guiding Principles on Police Use of Force”
10:00-10:30 Featured Speaker: Dr. Mark Bowman, Director, Center for Excellence in Justice Administration, Methodist University and former Lieutenant of City of Virginia Beach Police Department: “Perspectives on the New Guiding Principles on Police Use of Force”
10:30-11:00 Question and Answers
11:00-11:15 Morning Break
11:15-12:30 Panel: “Building Trust and Legitimacy: Policing in the Community,” Moderated by Dr. Maki Haberfeld (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY); Introduction by Joe Balles (Madison Community Policing Foundation)
Featured Panelists: Brandi Grayson (Young, Gifted and Black—YGB); Amelia Royko Maurer (Leader of a Community Response Team in Madison, Wis.); and Chief Jason King and Sergeant Tony Ruesga, Jr. (Darlington Police Department); Ismael Ozanne (District Attorney for Dane County) [+ Q&A]
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:30 Panel: “The Intersection of Policing and Mental Illness,” Moderated by Dr. Sabina Burton (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at UW-Platteville); Introduction by Dr. Staci Strobl (Associate Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice at UW-Platteville)
Featured Panelists: Captain Kristen Roman (Madison Police Department); Lindsay Wallace (National Association for the Mentally Ill [NAMI]); Sheriff Dave Mahoney (Dane County); Sen. Chris Taylor (Wisconsin) [+ Q&A]
2:30-2:35 Restorative Justice Taskforce
2:35-2:50 Afternoon Break
2:50-3:30 Michael Bell, Sr., (Community Activist, LTC., Retired Air Force) and Dr. Patrick Solar (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at UW-Platteville): “Lawful but Awful: The Inhumanity of the Law”
3:30-4:15 Break-out Sessions
Lieutenant Dan Marcou (former Director of Training, La Crosse Police Department, Wisconsin): “Current Use of Force Explained” (Suggested for civilian attendees who want a deeper understanding about how police are currently trained to use force.) [Ullsvik XXXX]
William “Dub” Lawrence (former sheriff, Davis County, Utah, and central of focus of the documentary Peace Officer) “The SWAT Team I Founded Killed My Son-in-Law” [Velzy Commons]
John Mutz (retired Los Angeles Police Department commander) and David Couper (retired Chief of Police, Madison Police Department and Criminal Justice Lecturer at UW-Platteville): “How Deming’s ‘Systems Thinking’ Can Save Our Police.” [Ullsvik 1016]
Alex Salazar (former Los Angeles Police Department officer, witness to the Ramparts scandal) “Why Good Cops Need to Do Something about Bad Cops.” [Ullsvik 1013]
4:15-5:15 Wrap-Up and “Next Steps for Building Trust and Legitimacy”: Views from the Legislature, Sen. Ron Johnson and Mr. Russ Feingold
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Register HERE.