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Bonus Section: Milwaukee Dialogue Raw Data Collected from the September 6, 2018 Event

While there hasn’t been the time to do the coding on the Milwaukee Red & Blue Dialogue

which took place less than two weeks ago at the time of this writing (completing this phase of the

thesis) I wanted to include a few examples of the facilitators reporting of participant comments as

raw data:

Red and Blue Dialogue 4 - September 6, 2018

Facilitator Name: Barbara Richards

Round 1

1. Share a story in your life that you think may have shaped your beliefs or opinions about

the criminal justice system, or,

2. In the Greater Milwaukee Area what have you seen or personally experienced relating to

the criminal justice system that has shape your beliefs.

I am a professional in the criminal justice field. I have served four years as a commissioner

setting bail in felony cases. I make the decisions. I was a public defender for 20 years. I am very

familiar with reform issues.

I grew up in NYC and experienced American racism from that viewpoint. My grandfather

was an immigrant. His Jewish nose was especially prominent in that he had it broken many times

in fights with rival ethnicities. While we were not poor we were lower middle class. Now I am a

professor at the Medical College. I see children who are in chronic pain. Some children are from

the poorest parts of the area and some are from Mequon. This is real physical pain but often

psychological in origin. I see the poor who are too busy dealing with basic needs of life. That is

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