Edward Cronin has worked in the law enforcement for over 35 years. His career includes experience as a Police Chief in two cities in Massachusetts. He holds a graduate degree in Criminal Justice Management along with an advanced graduate degree in Organizational Development and Systems Thinking from Suffolk University. He has also held appointments at the U.S. Department of State aa a Senior Law Enforcement Advisor.
As Chief of Police in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 2006, he co-developed a task force that employed a systems approach to address crime and educational failures of Latino students. Fitchburg was experiencing a higher murder rate per capita than the City of Boston (mostly within the Latino community) and a high school dropout rate for Latino students of over 40%. His work engaged the police and community to identify the root cause as unconscious bias, systemic racism, and lack of economic opportunities for young people.
Timestamps:
2:00 – Why does the thin blue line exist?
8:30 – American policing is 200 years old
16:30 – The American criminal justice system is a failure
21:30 – Ed’s story of reforming a city’s police force as Chief of Police in Fitchburg, MA
25:00 – How did Ed’s task force define systemic racism?
36:00 – How Should someone interact with the police?
40:00 – Ed’s message for young people
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