Policing the Police: How Can Communities Transform Law Enforcement?

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Policing the Police:

How Can Communities Transform Law Enforcement?

October 27, 2016

Bishop John Selders of Amistad UCC and Trinity College and David McGuire, Executive Director of the Connecticut American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), were featured guests in a conversation on police reform. Participants discussed the merits of body cameras, the need for better training for police officers, protests and demonstrations like the Black Lives Matter movement, and the need for creative thinking regarding solutions to police violence. Mr. McGuire commented that the prevailing thought of a “few bad apples” in police departments is inaccurate. Police misconduct is much more widespread in a culture of silence. The ACLU works every day to combat police misconduct, but it is deeply entrenched. Bishop Selders described his work with Moral Monday CT, a faith-based advocacy group, and concluded that all people, in whatever way suits them, need to get involved in issues.

Inspiration to Action

Advocate for a police training overhaul. Mandate that all officers receive implicit bias training
Fight for body cameras for all police departments
Advocate for alternatives to policing and punishment; envision what your community would look like without police
Support organizations like the ACLU and movements like Black Lives Matter and Moral Monday that are working to create immediate and lasting change
Recognize that not all people have the same experiences with law enforcement; listen to those who have different experiences than you

Location Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Doors Open 5:30 - 6 PM

Program 6 - 7:30 PM

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.