community 
and 
experts. 
According to Ann Arbor Police 
Department Chief Michael Cox, 
AAPD officers receive training 
in de-escalation, as well as 
implicit bias training. A new 
addition to training, however, 
is incorporating an awareness 
of mental health. Cox said 
AAPD and Washtenaw County 
Sheriff’s Department officers 
are working with community 
mental 
health 
departments 
to recognize and de-escalate 
situations with citizens who 
have mental health issues. 
“Not only do we have that 
for that unit, but we have 
access to those people 24 hours 
a day,” Cox said. “So, when 
officers go to a scene and we 
run across people that may be 
challenged with some type of 
mental health issue, that we 
have resources to call to help 
us deal with people.” 
Students, 
activists 
and 
advocacy groups across campus 
and the city have called for 
overarching criminal justice 
reform, citing police brutality 
as a reflection of a biased 
system. Law School professor 
Eve Primus explained the 
issues are interconnected and 
require multiple focuses. 
“Structural 
reform 
in 
the criminal justice system 

involves lots of different actors. 
Obviously, when you have a 
system that’s as complex as the 
criminal justice system is, and 
has as many inherent problems 
as the criminal justice system 
does, any reform — to be 
effective — is going to have 
to address all the different 
branches involved,” Primus 
said. “Police is one component 
of that. I do think police reform 
is important, but it’s once piece 
of a larger puzzle.”
Primus said the community 
plays a large role in any type of 
police reform.
“It absolutely is the case that 
community trust of the police 
will affect the police’s ability 
to do the job that they want to 
accomplish,” Primus said. “If 
the community doesn’t trust 
the police force, that will have 
adverse impacts on the police 
force’s ability to investigate 
and solve crimes.”
Public Policy senior Chris 
Young 
is 
an 
Ann 
Arbor 
native and remembers the 
protests after Rosser’s death. 
He 
emphasized 
community 
engagement as the key to trust-
building and said community 
engagement requires an honest 
effort from all stakeholders. 
“I think it comes down to 
informal 
communication, 
and that’s not something that 
can be required, because if 
you’re a police chief or a city 
councilmember and you go 

to your local police force 
and say, ‘I want you to do X 
number of hours of community 
engagement,’ police are going 
to check-in and check-out,” 
Young said. “It needs to come 
from a genuine willingness 
on both sides to make things 
better for the community in 
terms of attitude.”
Cox, 
who 
was 
officially 
sworn 
in 
in 
September, 
previously worked in Boston 
for over 30 years. In an 
interview 
with 
The 
Daily, 
Cox said a significant part of 
reform is rectifying the idea 
that police are only present 
in emergencies or dangerous 
situations. 
“Getting 
officers 
out 
in 
participating more community 
policing — I didn’t invent it, but 
it’s certainly something that 
Ann Arbor hasn’t done in quite 
a while,” Cox said. “I don’t 
know if we call that a reform, 
but that’s certainly something 
we’re practicing. 
One of the first concrete 
actions taken after Rosser’s 
death in November 2014 was 
equipping 
the 
city 
police 
with body cameras, which 
passed City Council in a 
month 
following 
pressure 
from student and community 
protesters. This September, 
Ann Arbor signed a $373,000 
contract 
for 
new 
police 
body cameras built by Axon 
Enterprise, Inc. because of 
frequent 
malfunctioning 
errors 
of 
the 
existing 
cameras in the past year. 
Cox commented on the 
benefits of body cameras, 
despite 
their 
costliness. 
According to Cox, they 
are a useful tool to review 
emotionally-charged 
situations from a more 
objective perspective.
“Humans’ memories are 
not as reliable as what we 
think all the time,” Cox 
said. “Cameras are just 
tremendous at helping us 
resolve a lot of those kind 
of cases because we have 
evidence that we normally 
wouldn’t have.”
Young said Ann Arbor 
was not insulated from 
the same issues happening 
across the country, adding 
that 
reforms 
must 
go 
beyond equipment.
“Even 
though 
I’m 
a 
policy 
student, 
I 
don’t 
think policy is the way to go 
about those things,” Young 
said. “I remember when 
body cameras first started 

to be used more, and people 
were thinking that this would 
be the end of all of these issues, 
and we can see very clearly, 
half a decade later, that’s not 
the case.”
Cox 
said 
police 
officers 
should adapt new methods 
as the profession develops, 
comparing it to other fields 
such as medicine.
“You know, just in general, 
some of our policies and 
procedures may change in the 
future, but I’m in the middle of 
reviewing all of those that we 
have quite a few,” Cox said. “So 
it’s going to take some time.”
Despite 
the 
efforts 
at 
reform, Penny said she is still 
concerned for the future.
“I’m not optimistic for the 
future, because even though 
there are now the body cams, 
there are still unnecessary 
Black shootings,” Penny said. 
“If that’s still happening in 
2019, where are they going to 
go from here?”
Penny 
emphasized 
that 
increasing 
diversity 
among 
law enforcement does not just 
mean race, but background 
experience 
and 
familiarity 
with the community. 
“If you don’t trust the police, 
you’re not going to want to 
be a cop. So, it can’t just be 
a blanket increase of Black 
officers or people of color, but 
it would have to be an increase 
of trust as well,” Penny said 
“These people need to know 
what the disparages of those 
communities 
are, 
and 
not 
people who are just like, ‘Oh, 
I lived on the outskirts of the 
east side of Detroit, so I’m 
going to be a Detroit cop.’ But 
you don’t really know what’s 
going on in the east side, you 
just know what you hear.” 
Cox said the perception 
of police officers nationally 
impacted 
the 
department’s 
efforts to increase diversity 
among its ranks and attract 
high-quality recruits.
“One of the things I think 
I harken back to — you know, 
good people coming to the 
police department,” Cox said. 
“There’s a lot of good people 
here. Good people, no matter 
what organization they’re in, 
they won’t stand by and let a 
lot of bad things happen. They 
want to make change; they 
want to make changes from 
within.”

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