IOP Fellow Lori Lightfoot on "Bringing Lasting Peace to Neighborhoods"

THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY

Wednesday, March 20

3:30-4:45pm

Public safety is an issue that impacts communities of all sizes, geographies and demographics. Historically, the primary or only approach has been a law enforcement first and only strategy. We now have decades of information to prove that is a completely failed strategy. More recently, under the banner of police reform, some have called for the abolition of the police and defunding. These two extreme strategies - law enforcement only or defund - have significant limitations, but taking a good faith perspective both ultimately seek to bring peace to communities plagued by violence, albeit through radically different means. In this seminar, we will explore what it really takes to bring lasting peace to communities, block by block, by getting to the root causes of violence and empowering communities.

Special Guests: David Brown (via Zoom), former Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department; Nakenya Hardy, Program Manager of Outreach and Interventions in the Austin and West Garfield Park Communities; and Talei Thompson, Community Engagement Manager, City of Chicago/Garfield Park Community Council

Pritzker Fellows seminars are off the record and open to current UChicago students only. Seating in the IOP Living Room is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Sarah Palmisciano (spalmisciano@uchicago.edu).