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Welcome back to the #APA2022 Main Stage for "The Psychology of Equal Justice". We'll be getting started in a few moments.

Black men and Black women are more than twice as likely to have deadly encounters with police.—@lollybowean #APA2022

In addition to being part of the solution, psychology and psychologists have been part of the problem when it comes to race and racism.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

The only reason we need the word 'racism' is so we can name the pattern of power.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

Research shows Black children are seen as older and white children are seen as younger. That takes Black teens as young as 13 and turns them into adults.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

When it comes to use of force, whiteness is more protective than childhood.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

We want to replace systems of punishment with systems of care, wherever that's reasonable.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

Until we eliminate nepotism in politics and law enforcement, we're going to have reruns of the same behavior.—Charles Grady, FBI #APA2022

We have a saying: culture eats policy for lunch. You have to change the culture if you want to change the behaviors.—Dr. Joel Dvoskin #APA2022

We need a more robust process of training individuals who will be coming into communities, into our homes to resolve traumatic incidences. We train police officers to be soldiers, we don't train them to be critical thinkers, that's where the problem lies.—Charles Grady #APA2022

Many police are traumatized. The problem with having traumatized people policing other traumatized people is what we are dealing with.—@DrBraVada #APA2022

I run into officers who say they have always wanted to be cops. How did they know? What were they taught? This self-selection is really a bias, and more departments haven't done much to address it.—Dr. Karen Amendola #APA2022

In many ways, police officers are like street psychologists...and so it's useful to think about what empathetic skill sets they're bringing to that.—@CalvinKLai #APA2022

The goal of social psychology was to solve the problems. We've gotten away from that.—@DrPhilGoff #APA2022

The world has an idea on how to solve these problems. Psychology is helpful because sometimes the solution is counterintuitive. We are not going to solve this problem simply by changing policy and training. We also have to change the minds of the public.—@ArthurCEvans #APA2022

When we get tough on crime, that disproportionately affects the communities we are talking about. If we believe the only way to fight crime in our communities is "we need to have tough police"...we know how that is going to turn out.—@ArthurCEvans #APA2022

It takes courage and bravery to take on police abuse and to criticize the police structure. APA is calling on you to do the brave work, first by being bold enough to talk about it and then to translate your thinking, your science, into action.—@lollybowean #APA2022

Thank you for joining us for today's session. We'll be back at 4 PM CT for "The Psychological Impact of Anti-Trans Legislation", our final Main Stage Headline Event of #APA2022.