Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to Reduce Mass Incarceration

The need to reform law enforcement practices is now at the center of American public discourse. Join the Brennan Center and the nation’s leading law enforcement and economic policy experts, including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, for a full-day conference focused on transforming prosecutorial practices and federal funding structures to both decrease crime and violence and reduce the nation’s incarcerated population.

Experts will discuss: What role should prosecutors and police play in reform efforts? Should their goal be simply to enforce and prosecute to their fullest authority, or should they also strive to reduce unnecessary arrests and incarceration? How can federal funding help modernize local law enforcement nationwide?

Please RSVP by filling out the form below or clicking here. If you have any additional questions, please contact Brennan Center Events Coordinator, Jafreen Uddin, at 646-292-8345 or jafreen.uddin@nyu.edu

Speakers will include: 

Cyrus Vance, Jr., Manhattan District Attorney * Cathy Lanier, Chief of Police, Washington, D.C. * Gene Sperling, former Director, White House National Economic Council * Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress * Lanny Breuer, former Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice * Paul Fishman, U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey * Kenneth Polite, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana * Timothy Purdon, U.S. Attorney, District of North Dakota * Barry R. Grissom, U.S. Attorney, District of Kansas * Doug Gansler, Maryland Attorney General * Anthony Batts, Commissioner, Baltimore Police Department * James E. Johnson, former Undersecretary for Enforcement, U.S. Department of Treasury * Robert Greenstein, President & Founder, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities * Jeff Tsai, Special Assistant Attorney General, Office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris * Mark Earley, former Virginia Attorney General, former President, Prison Fellowship, Signatory, Right on Crime * Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice * Inimai Chettiar, Director, Justice Program, Brennan Center