InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out: Is It Possible to Build Trust in Community-Police Relations?
02/05/2025 03:00 pm PST
Watch: https://youtu.be/Mstuoz4pBUc
The Power of Listening in Political Conversations to Understand the Needs and Human Rights of the Community and Its Citizens.
The core question of this episode is this: What happens when active listening is absent from political conversations?
You most likely know the answer to that question. When active listening is absent from political conversations, several negative consequences may arise, impacting both individual interactions and broader community dynamics. Things like polarization, distrust, lack of collaboration, decline of community engagement, and mimimizing marginalized voices.
You might be thinking: Why does it even matter? The truth is active listening builds trust. And trust is the foundation of meaningful community conversations and engagement. Without it, efforts to bring people together, solve problems, or drive change often fall flat. Here's an even more profound question: What if we were to consider what it would look like to build trust in community-police relations?
In this episode we take a look at the All Start Project (ASP) founded in 1981 as a 501(c)3 national nonprofit that uses a performance-based approach to help inner-city youths and their families create success in their lives. Their Operation Conversation approach reflects a deeper question: What could happen if you bring two seemingly disparate communities together (e.g., cops and kids) through the power of conversation?
Join us as we delve into Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids (OCCK), an innovative police–community relations model program run by ASP in partnership with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Newark Police Division (NPD). You'll get a glimpse into how Cops & Kids uses the power of performance to create a new kind of relationship.
2025: Community Engagement and the Grassroots of Change
Our theme for 2025 is Community Engagement and the Grassroots of Change. Throughout the year we’ll explore the stories, strategies, and successes of community-driven movements making a difference. Episodes will focus on both theory and practical examples, as well as case studies and guests. The end game is to provide our audience with insights into real-life positive community-engagement efforts.
Episode giveaways:
- All Stars Project https://allstars.org/who-we-are/
- Dr. Lenora B. Fulani Video Compilation The video compilation features the work of Dr. Lenora B. Fulani, independent political leader, educator, and developmentalist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0K514UaexY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fchatgpt.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&themeRefresh=1
- Case Study Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids This award-winning program uses performance, improvisation, and conversation to help inner-city teenagers and police officers build trust and improve their relationship. https://allstars.org/our-work/programs/operation-conversation-cops-and-kids/
- International Association of Chiefs of Police This blog post is part of a series highlighting best practices in community policing by police departments throughout the United States as part of IACP’s Community Policing: The Next Generation project. https://allstars.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2017-IACP.pdf
- Health Foundation of NJ Violence prevention is a proactive healthcare strategy that seeks to keep people out of the medical system by stopping violence at its roots. One often-overlooked violence prevention strategy is to work to lessen tensions between law enforcement and young people in urban areas. https://hfnj.org/grants_in_action/all_stars_project/
- Operation Conversation: Creating New Tools for Racial Healing Using the power of performance in virtual and in-person workshops, adults aged 21 and above from diverse communities learn and perform with new tools that develop empathy, appreciation, active listening and curiosity skills. https://allstars.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Operation-Conversation-Brochure-Digital.pdf?bbeml=tp-ef--8__f_EigbrjIU1i6Ig.jgXof2jG3FkevMTSLuDG2Lg.r2_9xA12dxUmXJcuWUAdOTA.libJZ4BcpNkytHOsf-euX4Q
HOST
Anita Russell M.Ed
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Mavis Bauman
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