Harvardwood, Color of Change, ACLU of Southern California, and the LA DA Accountability Coalition (of which LA Forward is a proud member) invite you to join us for a virtual discussion on how crime and legal TV series impact the public perception of crime, racial injustice and the criminal legal system. We ask the question: How can we, as writers and showrunners, do better?

We hope this event will inspire writers who want to be part of telling stories that share a more authentic understanding of the characters, forces and factors that shape the criminal legal system, and in a way that helps viewers reckon responsibly with all the complicated issues bound up in it. As a growing number of police-related shows are cancelled due to public pressure. And writers have been increasingly called to discuss the changing landscape of the crime TV genre, one of the most popular TV show genres. Our goal is to provide people both inside and outside the industry with a framework for assessing where the genre stands today and how it can evolve more quickly and more responsibly. Featuring Patrisse Cullors, Jane Dorotik, LaNaisha Edwards, Amity Paye, Nikki Toscano, Alexis Wilkinson.

Please register at https://www.harvardwood.org/crimetv