2019 National Seminar for Law Enforcement Reading Materials
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_Seminar participants are **strongly urged** to read the following materials before their arrival in Atlanta. This will allow participants to take full advantage of the opportunities presented throughout the seminar._ Please download and familiarize yourself with the full agenda of the seminar before beginning the readings. It will provide an important framework for preparation. **[[PDF Download Link]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019-AIPR-NSLE-Booklet.pdf)**
### Thursday, September 19 – [Click to Download Reading]
**The Role of Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights in Deeply Divided Societies**
“Social Identity as a Source of Violent or Genocidal Conflict,” from James Waller, _Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide_ (Oxford, 2016), pp. 139-147.
### Friday, September 20 – [Click to Download Reading]
**Keynote Address: Policing in the US: Why the President’s Task Force Report Still Matters** Executive Summary from the _Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing_ (May, 2015).
**Becoming Evil: The Psychology of How Ordinary People Commit Atrocities**
James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing,” from Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (eds.), _Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective_ (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 145-164.
