I presented, Community Reparations as a Remedy for Dignity Takings Following Police Misconduct at the Southeast-Southwest Persons of Color Conference held at Florida A & M College of Law in Orlando, Florida. This was a followup paper to my Howard Law Journal article. This articles takes the next logical step in the argument, asserting that reparations must be paid by cities to targeted communities of police misconduct in order to truly provide a remedy. The best way to implement reparations is in conjunction with existing DOJ procedures as it would provide teeth to the system, which currently only mandates increased training or oversight of police officers. Such reparations would be paid in the form of increased services or public amenities to the effected neighborhoods. They could include things such as, increased afters school programs, park maintenance, school maintenance, or community centers. This would provide a remedy that helps decrease violence while at the same time validating the harm that was inflicted upon the community by state actors.
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