we are the exclusive provider of open safety technical services for the icma which is the worldwide association of public administrators. it is a hundred year organization and their annual conference is in kansas city so i will have the opportunity to see the mayor and the captain next month. i thought i would spend a few minutes talking about some of the human resource challenges presented by the 21st century policing recommendations. to give you a sense that this is not just a financial issue for the program, it is much deeper. , labor bureaucratic issues that you have address to achieve many of the recommendations. i want to start by looking at the diversity issue. recommendation 1.8 talks about law enforcement agencies should strive to create a workforce with a broad range of diversity including race, gender, language, life experience, cultural background and i would add age to that. i need to remind everybody here that we still have not fully achieved fully integrated police departments on a racial and gender bases. that is despite the fact we have been involved in three decades worth of l

as a chief consultant, chief adviser for the international city and county management association, icma, on issues regarding public safety and policing and law enforcement. nd so he and i have been talking and we through our conversations, i think the idea for this session bubbled up. so very glad to have him. now, let's turn over to rebecca to start us off, please. >> thank you so much for that introduction. i'm delighted to be here with my esteemed panelists and really happy to be with all of you here in the audience as well as those participating with us virtually. as the other panelists and our opening key speaker mentioned, there's really a crisis in policing today. and i think that rod described it just as perfectly as anybody could, that it's a crisis in confidence. in the 1909s we had another type of crisis in policing. a crisis that involved violence and disorder in our communities. thankfully we've moved beyond that at least a bit in many of our u.s. cities, but the police and the community are at an all-time sort of odds. the confidence is really very lacking in both directio

we provide services to icma which is the worldwide association of public service administrators. it is a hundred year organization and their annual conference is in kansas city so i will have the opportunity to see the mayor and the captain next month. i thought i would spend a few minutes talking about implementing the problem. many of the recommendations in the task force are highlighted. i want to start by looking at the diversity issue. recommendation 1.85 talks about law enforcement agencies should strive to create a workforce with a broad range of diversity including race, gender, language, life experience, cultural background and i would add age to that. i need to remind everybody here that we still have not fully achieved fully integrated police departments on a racial and gender bases. that is despite the fact we have been involved in three decades worth of litigation, court orders, consent decree, collective bargaining agreements, we still haven't achieved that for race and gender which are the protected classes. how much more difficult, and i know this sound like debby