We discovered this workshop inadvertently. We were hired to train Procedural Justice at a major university. We had met with members of the public safety departments for the school and its hospital. We had faculty and staff who attended alongside the public safety personnel. One of the public policy professors wanted to bring his class to a session so we created one just for them. We found an immensely engrossing conversation and a thirst for more discussion of the law enforcement function in our society. We see collegiate criminal justice programs as a special place for collaboration. We have encountered participants who produced a vibrant and community focused learning opportunity.
Several of our facilitators have significant experiences with Criminal Justice programs at HBCU’s. It is typically the largest major at HBCU’s. While many students will not become state, local or federal law enforcement officers, they may pursue careers in allied fields which will still bring them into relationships with law enforcement. We believe that they will benefit from a better understanding of the police role, function, and customs. We have a special relationship with HBCU’s where we just may recruit a future police leader or two along the way.
We have a number of polling sets we can use with participant groups. For collegiate participants we typically host our “Ala Carte” session where participants can choose discussion items from a list of over twenty contemporary and topical law enforcement issues. We address the issues they believe are important, not us.
All of our stakeholder workshops are also available to collegiate groups.
Each of our workshops is based on one of the short documents in our “library”. These are all public source materials we ask participants to read (or at least browse) prior to the workshop. These materials are highlighted in italics which are accessible links and also reposited in “Workshop Reading Resources” on our contact page.
