Past Events

Reimagining Policing: Building Community Safety & Police Accountability

August 5, 2020

In person event postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. See here.

Restoring Higher Education Opportunities for Incarcerated Students

September 17, 2019

Law Enforcement Leaders and formerly incarcerated students held a conversation about the public safety benefits and taxpayer savings of restoring Pell Grants and other higher education opportunities for incarcerated students.

Law Enforcement Policy Briefing: How Sentencing and Corrections Reform Makes Communities and Law Enforcement Safer

July 8, 2016

Congressional staff briefing featuring prominent federal law enforcement officials on the need for sentencing and corrections reform

Law Enforcement Leaders Launch Event

October 21, 2015

Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration publicly launched at a media event in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club

We currently have nearly 200 members hailing from around the country, from all divisions of law enforcement, and from across the political spectrum.

Members Include:

  • Paul Schnell

    Commissioner, Department of Corrections, Minnesota

    Former Police Chief, Maplewood, Minnesota

    Former Police Chief, Hastings, Minnesota

  • Beth McCann

    District Attorney, Denver, Colorado

  • Brett Tolman

    Former U.S. Attorney, District of Utah

  • Jerry Clayton

    Sheriff, Washtenaw County, Michigan

  • Diana Becton

    District Attorney, Contra Costa County, California;Former Presiding Judge, Contra Costa Superior Court, California

  • Brendan Cox

    Director of Policing Strategies, LEAD National Support Bureau
    Former Police Chief, Albany, New York

  • William Scott

    Police Chief, San Francisco, California

  • Carmen Best

    Former Police Chief, Seattle, Washington

  • Peter Koutoujian

    Sheriff, Middlesex County, Massachusetts


    Former President, Major County Sheriffs of America


    Former President, Massachusetts Sheriffs' Association

  • Sim Gill

    District Attorney, Salt Lake County, Utah

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