The Criminal Justice Conversations Podcast, a co-production of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and the Berkeley School of Journalism, features in-depth, thirty-minute interviews with a wide range of criminal justice leaders: law enforcement officials, policymakers, advocates, service providers, academics and others.
The Podcast, hosted by criminal justice expert David Onek, gets behind the sound bites that far too often dominate the public dialogue about criminal justice, to have detailed, nuanced conversations about criminal justice policy.
About David Onek:
David Onek is the Founding Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice at Berkeley Law School, and serves as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Police Commission.
Onek leads the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice’s efforts to bring law enforcement and community together to build partnerships in support of innovative, research-based criminal and juvenile justice policy approaches. Along with his fellow Police Commissioners, Onek sets policy for the Police Department, oversees the Chief of Police and the Director of the Office of Citizen Complaints, and conducts disciplinary hearings on charges of police misconduct.
Onek was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to a four-year term on the Police Commission in 2008. Previously, Onek served as Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice in San Francisco, where he led numerous criminal justice policy initiatives for Mayor Newsom. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Program Associate at the W. Haywood Burns Institute, where he worked to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system in ten sites throughout the country. Following graduation from law school, Onek received a Skadden Fellowship to work as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco. Before attending law school, Onek was a Research Associate at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), where he researched and developed model juvenile justice programs and systems nationwide. Onek is the author of numerous juvenile and criminal justice book chapters, articles and reports. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Brown University. Onek lives in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood with wife Kara Dukakis and daughters Olivia and Nora.
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