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was invited to participate, and has been working to ensure citizen oversight has an <br />important role to play in their programmatic efforts. They report that: <br />A. Reconciliation facilitates frank conversations between communities and law <br />enforcement that allow them to address historic tensions, grievances, and <br />misconceptions between them and reset relationships. <br />B. Procedural justice focuses on how the characteristics of law enforcement <br />interactions with the public shape the public's views of the police, their <br />willingness to obey the law, and actual crime rates. <br />C. Implicit bias focuses on how largely unconscious psychological processes can <br />shape authorities' actions and lead to racially disparate outcomes even where <br />actual racism is not present. <br />In response to protests over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, <br />Missouri, as well as other incidents nation-wide that exposed the rift in the <br />relationships between local police and the communities they are sworn to protect <br />and serve, President Barack Obama established the Task Force on 21 st Century <br />Policing. The President charged the task force with identifying best practices and <br />offering recommendations on how policing practices can promote effective crime <br />reduction while building public trust. <br />The task force released its final report in May 2015. The final report is available <br />here: www.cops.usdoo.gov/pdf/taskforce/taskforce finalreport.pdf. The report <br />provides a road map of sorts, for communities and law enforcement agencies to use <br />in their efforts to reform and rebuild public trust. Civilian oversight alone is not <br />sufficient to gain legitimacy; without it, however, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the <br />police to maintain the public's trust. <br />42 <br />65D-171 <br />