Five Years After Ferguson: What Does Police Reform Look like Today?

Join the Criminal Law Initiative as they host Christy Lopez, Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center, to talk about the current state of police reform five years after the events in Ferguson, Missouri. Professor Lopez served as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice. In this position, she led the team that investigated the Ferguson Police Department and was a primary drafter of the Ferguson Report and negotiator of the Ferguson consent decree. She also led investigations of many other law enforcement agencies, including the Chicago Police Department, the New Orleans Police Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the Newark (New Jersey) Police Department, and the Missoula, Montana investigation.