Keynote Address at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and School of Medicine Symposium: The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing: Procedural Justice, Policing, and Public Health

Authors

• Ronald L. Davis

Abstract

Policing has changed significantly during the last thirty years and, although the current period involves many challenges, many changes have been successful. Community policing has advanced considerably and has been accompanied by advances in police technology.  The current period of crisis in policing also presents opportunities to create a new era of policing in the United States.  This generation’s civil rights movement does not have to involve conflict between police and activists, who should be working together to reform American policing.  The work of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing provides a framework for building a new era of policing for a twenty-first century democratic society.  The window of opportunity for progress is limited in duration, however, and reform must be initiated before the window closes.

Recommended Citation

Ronald L. Davis, Keynote Address at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and School of Medicine Symposium: The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing: Procedural Justice, Policing, and Public Health, 40 S. Ill. U. L.J. 419 (2016).
Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol40/iss3/1