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Introduction:
Mediator Robert Hughes reports that one aspect of an agreement after a police shooting incident was the formation of a fact-finding team.
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Fact-Finding Teams
Robert Hughes
Former CRS Mediator, Seattle Office
[Full Interview]
They established a community relations unit more or less around the [outside]
criminologist [who was brought in as an "outside expert," although she wasn't a sworn officer. Those were the regular kinds of elements of
an agreement.
In the event of any racially based crisis, the members in the negotiating teams would establish
communication. In other words, either could initiate contact and there were co-chair persons I
believe, and either of them could initiate a joint meeting to ensure communication and to secure
factual information over police reports so that they could effectively address the issues involved.
So that grievance channel was established.
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