Class Descriptions
Blue Courage: A NOBLE Call for Guardians
Blue Courage has just celebrated its 5th year transforming the hearts and minds of police officers in police organizations large and small across the United States and abroad, including as a signature leadership program for NYPD, LASD, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for 93 member agencies in their basic academy. New for 2018, Blue Courage has partnered with Simon Sinek to transform and deliver Sinek's "Golden Circle" concepts (discussed during the 2016 and 2017 IACP Conferences) for officers and agencies in a new course called "Find Your Why." The first part of this workshop will be an executive overview of Blue Courage with a detailed summary of its core principles and beliefs. The second part will be a facilitated discussion that will take a deeper-dive into the life-changing practices learned in the course and implementation strategies.
Presented by:
San Francisco Police Captain Jack Hart
University of Chicago Chief of Police Kenton Rainey
Blue Courage has just celebrated its 5th year transforming the hearts and minds of police officers in police organizations large and small across the United States and abroad, including as a signature leadership program for NYPD, LASD, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for 93 member agencies in their basic academy. New for 2018, Blue Courage has partnered with Simon Sinek to transform and deliver Sinek's "Golden Circle" concepts (discussed during the 2016 and 2017 IACP Conferences) for officers and agencies in a new course called "Find Your Why." The first part of this workshop will be an executive overview of Blue Courage with a detailed summary of its core principles and beliefs. The second part will be a facilitated discussion that will take a deeper-dive into the life-changing practices learned in the course and implementation strategies.
Presented by:
San Francisco Police Captain Jack Hart
University of Chicago Chief of Police Kenton Rainey
Ceasefire and Role of Shooting Reviews
The Ceasefire strategy is a nationally recognized best practice to reduce gang and group related shootings and homicides. Oakland has been implementing this strategy since 2012 and has realized a 42% reduction in homicides and a 49% reduction in shootings. Simultaneously, Oakland has also seen a dramatic 75% reduction in use of force during this same time period. One aspect that is unique to the Oakland implementation of the Ceasefire strategy is our community partnerships and the weekly shooting review. This workshop will focus on community partnership and the weekly shooting review.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Captain Ersie Joyner
Program Director Reygan Cunningham
The Ceasefire strategy is a nationally recognized best practice to reduce gang and group related shootings and homicides. Oakland has been implementing this strategy since 2012 and has realized a 42% reduction in homicides and a 49% reduction in shootings. Simultaneously, Oakland has also seen a dramatic 75% reduction in use of force during this same time period. One aspect that is unique to the Oakland implementation of the Ceasefire strategy is our community partnerships and the weekly shooting review. This workshop will focus on community partnership and the weekly shooting review.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Captain Ersie Joyner
Program Director Reygan Cunningham
Data Driven Approach to Intelligent Based Policing
During this presentation, instructors will provide data driven approaches to reducing crime. Instructors will provide students methods used by the Oakland Police Department to implement Intelligence Based Policing. These methods include geographic deployment, use of statistical data in strategic decision making, use of intelligence source and enhancing data sharing within organizations, and accountability methods and measurements. This course will help students better understand how the use data can also help to reduce crime and increase community trust.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong
Oakland Police Captain Nishant Joshi
Oakland Police Lieutenant Christopher Bolton
Stanford University Professor Dr. Benoit Monin
During this presentation, instructors will provide data driven approaches to reducing crime. Instructors will provide students methods used by the Oakland Police Department to implement Intelligence Based Policing. These methods include geographic deployment, use of statistical data in strategic decision making, use of intelligence source and enhancing data sharing within organizations, and accountability methods and measurements. This course will help students better understand how the use data can also help to reduce crime and increase community trust.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong
Oakland Police Captain Nishant Joshi
Oakland Police Lieutenant Christopher Bolton
Stanford University Professor Dr. Benoit Monin
Opening Session/Official Welcomes/The Honorable Judge Ursula Jones Dickson Keynote
The Honorable Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was born and raised in Los Angeles County. She left Southern California to attend the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1990. She taught middle school for 2 years at St. Columba Catholic School in Oakland, California, after her graduation.
Judge Jones Dickson left teaching to work for State Farm Insurance until she was admitted to the University of San Francisco law school in 1995. She worked full time and went to law school at night during her first year. After the first year of law school, she quit her job at State Farm In House counsel to start her own consulting firm while she was completing her legal education. Her only client was a firm where she was all owed the opportunity to help build a sports and entertainment clientele for a female sports agent. Mrs. Jones Dickson worked for this firm until she graduated in 1998, at which time she took and passed the California State Bar Exam.
Judge Jones Dickson began her legal career at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in 1999, where she served as a Deputy District Attorney . As a Deputy, she tried misdemeanor and felony cases, and worked on important policy issues effecting juveniles in Alameda County. She stayed at the District Attorney’s Office as a lawyer until she was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court on December 27, 2013. She has presided over a criminal trial court as well as a dependency court since she was elevated to the bench. She also heads up the Family Drug Court and the Girls Court for the Alameda County Collaborative Court division.
The Honorable Judge Ursula Jones Dickson was born and raised in Los Angeles County. She left Southern California to attend the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1990. She taught middle school for 2 years at St. Columba Catholic School in Oakland, California, after her graduation.
Judge Jones Dickson left teaching to work for State Farm Insurance until she was admitted to the University of San Francisco law school in 1995. She worked full time and went to law school at night during her first year. After the first year of law school, she quit her job at State Farm In House counsel to start her own consulting firm while she was completing her legal education. Her only client was a firm where she was all owed the opportunity to help build a sports and entertainment clientele for a female sports agent. Mrs. Jones Dickson worked for this firm until she graduated in 1998, at which time she took and passed the California State Bar Exam.
Judge Jones Dickson began her legal career at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in 1999, where she served as a Deputy District Attorney . As a Deputy, she tried misdemeanor and felony cases, and worked on important policy issues effecting juveniles in Alameda County. She stayed at the District Attorney’s Office as a lawyer until she was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court on December 27, 2013. She has presided over a criminal trial court as well as a dependency court since she was elevated to the bench. She also heads up the Family Drug Court and the Girls Court for the Alameda County Collaborative Court division.
Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy
The goal of this course is to provide the core principles of Procedural Justice and define Police Legitimacy, gain a deeper understanding of the core concepts, and continue the focus of the 21st Century Policing Task Recommendation of strengthening relationships within the communities that we serve.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong
Oakland Police Captain Roland Holmgren
Oakland Police Sergeant Kyle Hay
The goal of this course is to provide the core principles of Procedural Justice and define Police Legitimacy, gain a deeper understanding of the core concepts, and continue the focus of the 21st Century Policing Task Recommendation of strengthening relationships within the communities that we serve.
Presented by:
Oakland Police Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong
Oakland Police Captain Roland Holmgren
Oakland Police Sergeant Kyle Hay
Stewardship of a Black Chief: Balancing Expectations
Law enforcement leaders are facing unprecedented challenges as trust of the police languishes amidst a climate of perceived illegitimacy of the policing profession. Police leaders, particularly when they are the agency’s CEO, are saddled with the added burden of navigating an entire organization through this racially-tumultuous environment, all the while balancing the health and needs of the workforce with the public expectation and demand for reform and transparency. But when the law enforcement CEO is the same race as the majority of those who doubt or disparage his or her agency and profession, is there an added dynamic? These contemporary issues are the genesis of the panel discussion that will take place this session.
Presented by:
Union City Chief of Police Darryl McAllister
Sacramento Chief of Police Daniel Hahn
Bakersfield Chief of Police Lyle Martin
Richmond Chief of Police Allwyn Brown
CSU East Bay Chief of Police Sheryl Boykins
Law enforcement leaders are facing unprecedented challenges as trust of the police languishes amidst a climate of perceived illegitimacy of the policing profession. Police leaders, particularly when they are the agency’s CEO, are saddled with the added burden of navigating an entire organization through this racially-tumultuous environment, all the while balancing the health and needs of the workforce with the public expectation and demand for reform and transparency. But when the law enforcement CEO is the same race as the majority of those who doubt or disparage his or her agency and profession, is there an added dynamic? These contemporary issues are the genesis of the panel discussion that will take place this session.
Presented by:
Union City Chief of Police Darryl McAllister
Sacramento Chief of Police Daniel Hahn
Bakersfield Chief of Police Lyle Martin
Richmond Chief of Police Allwyn Brown
CSU East Bay Chief of Police Sheryl Boykins
Women Leaders in LE... Wearing Pink & Blue, Yet Still Staying True!
This workshop will feature female leaders in LE who have triumphed over trials and tribulations. The leaders will discuss how they made it "to the top," sharing experiences, challenges, and "lessons learned," along the way. The workshop will be interactive and designed to facilitate attendee's learning and development in leadership, team building, and mentoring skills.
Presented by:
BART Police Deputy Chief Jan Glenn-Davis (Ret.)
TBD
This workshop will feature female leaders in LE who have triumphed over trials and tribulations. The leaders will discuss how they made it "to the top," sharing experiences, challenges, and "lessons learned," along the way. The workshop will be interactive and designed to facilitate attendee's learning and development in leadership, team building, and mentoring skills.
Presented by:
BART Police Deputy Chief Jan Glenn-Davis (Ret.)
TBD
Youth Engagement
Youth Engagement is an inclusive, intentional, mutually respectful partnership between the youth, the community and Law Enforcement. In this context, the power of conversation between youth, Law Enforcement and the community is shared, respective contributions are valued, and young people's ideas, perspectives, skills and strengths are intergrated into design and delivery of programs, strategies, policies, funding mechanisms and organizations that effect their lives and thier communities.
Our main goal for this Youth Engagement will be to strengthening relationships between Law Enforcement and the Youth, build trust and promote a positive image of Law Enforcement while stimulating a better understanding.
Presented by:
TBD
Youth Engagement is an inclusive, intentional, mutually respectful partnership between the youth, the community and Law Enforcement. In this context, the power of conversation between youth, Law Enforcement and the community is shared, respective contributions are valued, and young people's ideas, perspectives, skills and strengths are intergrated into design and delivery of programs, strategies, policies, funding mechanisms and organizations that effect their lives and thier communities.
Our main goal for this Youth Engagement will be to strengthening relationships between Law Enforcement and the Youth, build trust and promote a positive image of Law Enforcement while stimulating a better understanding.
Presented by:
TBD