This is great. The International Association of Chiefs of Police is having their Annual conference in San Diego this year 29 September through 03 October. There are speeches,symposiums, workshops, all sorts of stuff. If you search the conference schedule on 01 October you might just happen to see this little item:
- Preventing Homicides and Gun Violence
And a description of the conference:
- This workshop will provide an introduction to the training curriculum developed in Milwaukee, based on an interdisciplinary approach to violence reduction and showcase how it is now being adapted and implemented in other urban areas with support from the COPS Office.
Milwaukee? Didn't they just run into some problems with their version of CompStat downgrading serious assaults and similar crimes? And check out the list of featured speakers:
- Garry McCarthy
John Markovic
Mallory O'Brien Ph.D.
Ronal Serpas
Steve Conrad
And our homicide rate is up how much this year? And total shootings are where again? And he's giving a speech on "reducing" them? Now we've seen everything. Well, maybe not quite, but this does take a large slice of the cake.