This two-part City Club program series will examine local law enforcement through the lens of recent events. Today’s program will pick up where the first program, “Accountability and Transparency in Local Law Enforcement,” left off.  Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner, local NAACP president Ibrahim Coulibaly, and CAHOOTS co-founder David Zeiss will discuss the scope of local law enforcement and how it has responded to trends in local poverty and public safety, including homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness.

This timely and urgent conversation will survey Eugene’s history of law enforcement in light of the larger issues around police accountability and reform. At the heart of these programs is a question:  How can we cultivate and enforce greater equity, justice, and public safety in our community, in light of where we’ve been and what direction we want to head?

Find out more online, or tune in on Facebook to watch the program.