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We need creative and collaborative approaches to reimagining public safety. This is where I would love to see interdisciplinary collaboration to develop a community-driven research agenda. https://twitter.com/CamRasNYC/status/1296569088102277123
I would think broadly about the disciplinary expertise that need to be involved in the conversation. For example, this article doesn’t talk about how social workers are sometimes called on to be hostage and crisis negotiators. Our mom had to do that. @DoctorHim
We also need to consider these issues in light of the growing automation of social services. As @PopTechWorks explained in her book, Automating Inequality, technology is altering the relationship between social workers and the people and communities they seek to serve.
So computer science and scholars in science and technology studies need to be in the conversation. So do folks in journalism, communications studies, and public health.
I would bring in game designers too, because I think alternate reality games can be great tools for community deliberation.
This, of course, is in addition to the people you would traditionally bring to the table for such an interdisciplinary conversation, and it would try to build on public health research on violence prevention that’s been going on for years and that’s under-covered.
But community voices need to be the table, highlighted, and central to the process.
I should mention that the model of community-engaged interdisciplinary collaboration that we developed may be of some use in implementing such a research agenda: https://kimpearson.net/teaching-about-race-across-disciplines-using-interdisciplinary-collaboration/
