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51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 793 (2016)
Toward Democratic Police Reform: A Vision for Community Engagement Provisions in DOJ Consent Decrees

handle is hein.journals/wflr51 and id is 827 raw text is: TOWARD DEMOCRATIC POLICE REFORM: A VISION FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROVISIONS IN DOJ CONSENT DECREES Sunita Patel* INTRODUCTION The shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager in Florida, led three Black women to create #BlackLivesMatter.1 That hashtag has since become synonymous with a movement that condemns police violence2 and stands for the dignity and value of Black lives.3 Black Lives Matter has renewed discussion amongst academics, policy makers, think tanks, law enforcement professionals, activists, and advocates about the problem of police violence. In response, President Obama created the Task Force on 21st Century Policing to identify best practices and offer * Sunita Patel is a Practitioner in Residence at American University Washington College of Law and former plaintiffs' counsel for Floyd v. City of New York, the successful stop-and-frisk class action against the New York Police Department. This project would not have been possible without Shahrzad Noorbaloochi's exceptional research. I am grateful for insights, critical feedback, and encouragement from the Washington College of Law 2015 summer clinical scholarship workshop and Amna Akbar, Eric J. Miller, Jocelyn Simonson, Ashlee Albie, Jennifer Borchetta, Richard Ugelow, Stephen Rushin, and Samuel Walker. Katherine Beck, Mallory Corrigan, Madeline Dang, Cecilia Lopez, Rupalee Rashatwar, Sarah West, and Elizabeth Teeter provided invaluable assistance and research. Thank you to my colleagues at the Center for Constitutional Rights, co-counsel, policing advocates around the country, civil rights attorneys, clients, and the Department of Justice for vigorous discussion on the. topics included in this article. Special thanks to Chandra Bhatnagar. Many thanks to the Wake Forest Law Review for excellent editorial assistance. 1. A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, BLACK LIVES MATTER, http:/Iblacklivesmatter.com/herstory/ (last visited Oct. 22, 2016). 2. Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Black Lives Matter Occupies an Important Space, Bos. GLOBE (Sept. 1, 2015), https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09 /01/the-message-black-lives-matter/EPjIfUd95BeSHyXGthJ9KMistory.html. As of October 22, 2016, police have shot and killed 865 individuals in 2016. The Counted: People Killed by Police in the US, GUARDIAN, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/O1/the-counted -police-killings-us-database (last visited Oct. 22, 2016). 3. Brittany Packnett, Black Lives Matter Isn't Going Anywhere, TIME (Jan. 18, 2016), http://time.com/41782801black-lives-matter-2016/.

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