Relations Between Community & Police

press release: Relations between Community and Police is a symposium sponsored by the Wisconsin University Union (WUU). As WUU stands for equity in the work place and our work place is a public university, the issue of Community-Police relations impacts us all. Locally and nationally there have been serious questions raised around Community-Police relations in past years. In this symposium our speakers directly address those questions, as well as proposed solutions to improve community-police relations.

SPEAKERS:

Alix Shabaaz – Community Organizer and Freedom Fighter at Freedom Inc.

Michael Davis – MA Student Department of African American Studies, PhD Student in the School of Education & Community Organizer at Freedom Inc.

Ajani Carr – Youth Activist & Community Organizer

David C. Couper – Retired Madison Police Chief, Activist, Clergy, Poet