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January 21, 2022

As people in communities across the country are considering policing practices that treat all people fairly while still enforcing the law, these policing materials focus on what might be done to work toward both of those key goals.
 
The discussion framework includes multiple options for increasing fairness and safety, each suggesting different ways of thinking and acting. Forum participants will consider questions such as these: 

  • What law enforcement functions do we most value and want to enhance? What aspects do we want to eliminate or rethink?
  • What roles should community members, law enforcement, officeholders, social services, educators, businesses, and others play as we work to enhance and improve policing?
  • Change takes time. What changes are urgent? What can be made over time?

A wide range of complimentary resources are available to those who wish to convene discussions on policing.
Click here to watch a webinar on convening and moderating deliberative forums on policing.
About Deliberation in National Issues Forums
National Issues Forums issue guides are designed to stimulate public deliberation, which is a way of making decisions together that is different from discussion or debate. The purpose of deliberative forums is to inform collective action. As citizens, we have to make decisions together before we can act together, whether with other citizens or through legislative bodies. Acting together is essential for addressing problems that can't be solved by one group of people or one institution. These problems have more than one cause and therefore have to be met by a number of mutually reinforcing initiatives with broad public participation. 

About the National Issues Forums Institute

The National Issues Forums Institute's mission is to promote the use of public deliberation in schools, colleges, civic organizations, and religious institutions in the United States. The institute's board members are volunteers drawn from leaders in government, colleges and universities, libraries, civic organizations, the media, and medicine. For more information visit www.nifi.org.