Page 8 - 2021 ABLE Conference Brochure

August 11, 2021 Dear Guests:
On behalf of Georgetown Law’s Innovative Policing Program and global law firm Sheppard Mullin, welcome to the 4th annual Law Enforcement Active Bystandership Conference.
We are pleased to present this conference, along with the New Orleans Police Department and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, to continue our work of bringing active bystandership to a nationwide audience. For those unfamiliar with the ABLE Project, the conference will provide an overview of our mission, standards, and goals, as well as all the information you need to bring ABLE to your community. For those with a working knowledge of ABLE, the conference will provide opportunities to dive deeply into aspects of the ABLE curriculum and the implementation process. And of course, all attendees will hear from our distinguished speakers, including law enforcement leaders, ABLE instructors, community advocates, and members of our partner organizations.
This year’s conference is the first opportunity to broadly share the work of Georgetown’s Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) ProjectTM. Since its launch in July 2020, the ABLE Project has been dedicated to making effective active bystandership a consistent part of policing. The response has been tremendous, and ABLE has become the gold standard in evidence- informed active bystandership training, as well as a national hub for training, technical assistance, and research, all with the aim of creating a police culture in which officers routinely intervene as necessary to:
• Prevent misconduct,
• Avoid police mistakes, and
• Promote officer health and wellness.
Years of academic research and on-the-ground experience have shown us that effective active bystandership can be taught. The ABLE ProjectTM does exactly that by preparing officers to successfully intervene to prevent harm and to create a law enforcement culture that supports peer intervention.
Building upon a training developed by Dr. Ervin Staub, the Founding Director of a program on the psychology of peace and violence, in 2014, Dr. Staub, other consultants, and the New Orleans Police Department developed the Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) Peer
7. | Fourth Annual Law Enforcement Active Bystandership Conference