Description

This episode features:

• Art Acevedo, Chief of Police, Houston Police Department.
• Roy L. Austin, Vice President of Civil Rights, Facebook.
• Karol Mason, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
• Bill Whitaker, of CBS News and a 60 Minutes correspondent. (moderator)

This bonus episode of Shades of Freedom is drawn from a February 2021 online event of the same name created by the Aspen Institute’s Criminal Justice Reform Initiative, and the Conversations with Great Leaders Series, in Memory of Preston Robert Tisch. View the full event video on YouTube.

The panel discusses how, as a nation, we are witnessing increased public support for re-imagining and transforming the criminal justice system, and tackles the question of how we, and our leaders, can make change happen in a way that takes into consideration historic injustices, as well as the underlying social, economic, education and health disparities in the United States.

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