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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