Advanced Leadership Center: A Community Perspective on What It Means to Protect and Serve

Co-Producing Public Safety

Healthy relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve are essential to effectively protect the community’s interests, reduce crime and ensure justice. Trust plays a crucial role in these efforts. What immediate and long-term actions can be taken by law enforcement and the community to help strengthen trust and enhance public safety? Join us as we look to promote common ground conversation between the Cleveland Police Department and the communities they serve in co-producing reform, collaboration, and the strengthening of trust in our communities.

Agenda

• Introductions and discussion guidelines
• A brief review of the history of the relationship between the Cleveland Police
Department and the communities they serve from Mayor Stokes early career
through today
• Perspectives shared on how the CPD and the community can co-produce
public safety, enhance trust and drive constructive change going forward.
Guest speakers:
o Judge Michael Ryan of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
o Councilwoman Delores Gray of Cleveland's Ward 5
o Councilman Blaine Griffin of Cleveland's Ward 6
o Cleveland Police Department (TBD)
• Dialogue sessions with audience and guests
• Summary of discussions
• What’s next? Continuing the conversation

Questions for Consideration

1. How is trust and collaboration between the CPD and the community defined?
a. What does co-producing public safety look like?

2. How can the CPD and the community work together to co-produce public
safety?
a. What will success look like?
b. What community groups need to be engaged in helping co-produce
public safety?

3. How can an individual member of the community make a positive difference
in co-producing public safety?

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