Youth/Police Conference: How it Makes Me Feel—Police

Every day we put police officers in what often feels like an impossible situation: Get gangs, guns, and drugs off our streets. Keep us safe from violence. At the same time, there is widespread criticism of the practice of stopping and searching Black youth as a crime-fighting tactic. How do police experience this apparent catch 22? How do youth/police encounters impact law enforcement?

• Jane Castor, Chief of Police, Tampa Police Department
• Marq Claxton, Black Law Enforcement Alliance; New York Police Department (retired)
• Richard McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
• Howard Saffold, Executive Director, Positive Anti-Crime Thrust; Chicago Police Department (retired)
• Moderator: Steve Edwards, Executive Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics

This panel discussion was recorded at the Youth/Police Conference at the University of Chicago Law School in April 2015.