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Join Strategies for Youth and More Than Words (MTW) for a thoughtful discussion led by youth from MTW, Former police officer, Edwin Raymond, author of An Inconvenient Cop, Strategies for Youth Board Member, Derby St Fort, and Lisa H. Thurau, Strategies for Youth Executive Director .
Book signing by Edwin Raymond
Light refreshments served
Registration is Required
242 East Berkeley Street, Boston
More about Strategies For Youth (SFY):
SFY is a national policy and training organization dedicated to ensuring best outcomes for youth interacting with law enforcement.
We achieve our mission by:
- providing law enforcement agencies and officers with developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, racially equitable training, policies and partnerships;
- teaching youth how to navigate interactions with law enforcement officers and their peers, and to be aware of what conduct puts them in legal jeopardy,
- conducting original research and working with scholars to raise the profile of this issue.
More about Edwin Raymond and An Inconvenient Cop:
Edwin Raymond, a fifteen-year veteran of the New York Police Department, is one of the nation's leading voices on criminal justice reform. He has received numerous accolades, including a Commanding Officer's Award for exceptional duty, an NAACP Courage and Leadership Award, and an International Documentary Association's Courage Under Fire Award and a Doc Star of the Month Award
"I am thinking about quitting my job as a local cop. I don't know the when but I do know the why. Many of the reasons can be found in the pages of Edwin Raymond's An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. . . . Raymond's book, based on what he did and didn't do as he rose through the ranks of the New York City Police Department, explains better than most how one cop can't change the system -- but how change can't happen without that one cop trying."
--The Washington Post
"In this searing memoir, 14-year NYPD veteran Raymond argues that New York City is 'the red-hot center of the problem' of racially motivated police brutality . . . Combining personal anecdotes and painstaking research, Raymond passionately advocates for wholesale police reform, arguing with convincing clarity that 'when you toss out bad apples, you're not changing a damn thing.' This is a gutting and essential take on a hot-button issue."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
