Views By Two Series
“Policing and Community Relationships”
featuring
Sheriff Sandra Hutchens &
Professor L. Song Richardson
Please join us for the first event in our 2015-2016 Views By Two series. Views By Two pairs a Center researcher with a prestigious practitioner to discuss hot topics in the field of psychology and law. By providing both a researcher and practitioner viewpoint, we hope to start a dialogue that will bridge the gap between scientific research and policy.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments, beer, and wine will be served during a reception following the event.
Please RSVP here by February 26th
Date: March 1, 2016
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Location:
University of California, Irvine Campus; Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway building, room 1517 (#214 on campus map). For an interactive map of the parking structure and venue, click here. Parking is available in the Social Sciences Parking Structure – please note that this lot is not attended after 5pm. Instead, please use the electronic permit kiosk that is available on the ground floor. If you prefer, an attendant is available at the Student Center Parking Lot.
Abstract:
The high profile killings of unarmed Black men by the police have brought national attention to the persistent problem of policing and racial violence. Many accounts have been given to explain these instances of racial violence at the hands of the police, ranging from arguments that the police acted justifiably to arguments likening these killings to Jim Crow lynchings. However, reducing the problem of racial violence to the individual police-citizen interaction at issue obscures how current policing practices and culture entrench racial subordination and, thus, racial violence. Orange County Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens, and UCI Law Professor, Song Richardson, will discuss their unique perspectives on this important and timely issue. Their presentation will address policing and community relationships in the wake of Ferguson.
Speaker Biographies:
Sandra Hutchens – Orange County Sheriff
Sandra Hutchens is the 12th Orange County Sheriff and the first woman to serve as the county’s top cop. She was named Sheriff by the Board of Supervisors in 2008 after a nationwide search which included a field of 48 candidates. She wast first elected in 2010 to her first full term.
A Southern California native, Sheriff Hutchens was raised in Long Beach, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High. Shortly after graduating from high school she was hired as a secretary for the Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department, where she met some Deputies who convinced her to apply for a Deputy position. She graduated from the Academy in 1978. Her 30 year career includes counterterrorism training in Israel, FBI National Academy training, participation in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Program at Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration from the University of La Verne.
In her five years as Sheriff of Orange County, Sheriff Hutchens has made numerous changes to the Orange County Sheriff ’s Department with the goal of restoring honor to the department. New leadership staff has been added and policies have been revised all with a commitment to the department’s core values: “Integrity without compromise; Service above self; Professionalism in the performance of duty; Vigilance in safeguarding our community.”
L. Song Richardson – Professor of Law
Professor Richardson’s interdisciplinary research uses lessons from cognitive and social psychology to study criminal procedure, criminal law and policing. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the legal and moral implications of mind sciences research on policing and criminal procedure. Professor Richardson’s scholarship has been published by law journals at Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, Southern California, and Minnesota, among others. Her article, “Police Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment” was selected as a “Must Read” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Her co-edited book, The Future of Criminal Justice in America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
Professor Richardson’s legal career has included partnership at a boutique criminal law firm and work as a state and federal public defender in Seattle, Washington. She was also an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Immediately upon graduation from law school, Professor Richardson was a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit in Brooklyn, NY. Professor Richardson has been featured in numerous local and national news programs, including “48 Hours.”
Professor Richardson is the 2011 Recipient of the American Association of Law School’s Derrick Bell Award, which recognizes a junior faculty member’s extraordinary contribution to legal education through mentoring, teaching, and scholarship. Richardson frequently presents her work at academic symposia as well as at non-academic legal conferences. She is a member of the American Law Institute.
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