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22 Quinnipiac Health L. J. 289 (2018-2019)
Police Reform as Preventative Medicine: Reframing Police-Community Violence as a Public Health Law Issue

handle is hein.journals/qhlj22 and id is 301 raw text is: POLICE REFORM AS PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE: REFRAMING POLICE- COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH LAW ISSUE Justin K. Reichman The author considers police-community violence a public health issue and evaluates the issue through the lens of public health law. Po- lice-community violence is larger than the criminal justice system, and affects the health of the community as a whole. This concept is well doc- umented in public health circles, but is surprisingly absent from juris- prudence. This article summarizes relevant public health law, analyzes how police power - especially police violence - impacts public health, and illustrates how those impacts warrant a conceptual shift to a public health law lens. This article examines a case study of police reform in East Haven, Connecticut as an example consistent with a public health law approach, identifying the East Haven model as one of the most successful programs of the sixteen agreements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and municipalities under the Obama administration. Ofsignificantprac- 289