Name: 【TED】Tracie Keesee: How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together (How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together | Tracie Keesee)
Uploaded: 2018-10-16T16:57:38.000Z
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You know, my friends, I look at this photograph

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you know, I think I've seen this somewhere before.

People marching in the street for justice.

But I know it's not the same photograph that I would have seen,

because I wouldn't take my oath to be a police officer until 1989.

And I've been in the business for over 25 years.

And identifying as an African-American woman,

But even as I learned about public safety,

I wondered if what I was doing on the street

And I often wondered if, you know, how did they perceive me,

I knew there was a way that we could do this, probably, different or better.

A way that preserved dignity and guaranteed justice.

But I also knew that police could not do it alone.

the African American community and the police is a painful one.

It has been studied by social scientists,

all both promising, you know, hopeful new ways and long-term fixes.

And that we know, in order to have great relationships

that we're going to have to have communication.

And in this advent and this text of the world that we've got going on,

We also have to examine our current policing practices,

and we have to set those things aside that no longer serve us.

So, in New York, that meant "stop, question and frisk."

That meant really holding up the numbers as opposed to relationships.

And it really didn't allow the officers the opportunity

to get to know the community in which they serve.

So in the 1970s, Elinor Ostrom came up with this theory,

really called coproduction, and this is how it works.

You bring people into the space that come with separate expertise,

and you also come with new ideas and lived experience,

and you apply this theory to public safety,

It is called building relationships, literally one block at a time.

You go to buildtheblock.nyc, you put in your address.

And up pops location, date and time of your neighborhood meeting.

The important part of this is you've got to go to the meeting.

along with officers and other community members.

What's important about bringing, now, the lived experience into this space

is that we have to have a new way of delivering it.

is through what we call neighborhood coordinating officers, or NCOs.

And so, also in this meeting are the NCOs,

all of us working together to collaborate in this new way

And what's interesting about this is that we know that it works.

At a community meeting, there was a bar, up in Washington Heights,

and the neighbors were complaining about outcry and noises.

So in their conversations with their NCO,

they talked about, you know, sound barriers,

Is there a different way we can direct traffic?

And of course now they have relatively quieter bar nights.

So, another issue that always comes up in neighborhoods is speeding.

How many of you in here have ever had a speeding ticket?

There's more than that, this is New York.

So those are other issues that brought to the NCO.

is they collaborate with the Department of Transportation,

they look at issues such as speed bumps and signage and all types of things.

And when we come together to create this different type of policing,

The coproduction of public safety also means

the history and the power of their uniforms.

They're going to have to set aside old historical narratives

And that means they have to learn about implicit bias.

Implicit biases are shortcuts the brain makes

They're stereotypes that often influence our decision making.

【TED】Tracie Keesee: How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together (How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together | Tracie Keesee)

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