“You can have all the best policies on the books, but policy culture eats policy for lunch. And so without training at the front end and accountability at the back end, none of these policies will make a difference.”—Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

“There’s still structural racism in law enforcement. It’s not an indictment on your officers; it’s an indictment on a system of which they’re operating. That truth is very critical to moving forward.”—Ronald L. Davis, former executive director of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing

“Make sure that in responding to the passions of your community, that you understand that the community deserves a plan.”—Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity

“You have to have a community-driven, community-created plan that says what happens next, says how those funds will be allocated, that has real teeth with the community.”—Changa Higgins, Dallas Policing Campaign Manager at the Leadership Conference Education Fund