This panel focuses on ways to increase police legitimacy. Panelists discuss the importance of police legitimacy in violence reduction. Also discussed are ways to increase legitimacy as well as addressing how communities and law enforcement can work together to build police legitimacy. The panelists include Captain Phillip Tingirides, Commanding Officer, Los Angeles Police Department; Phillip Atiba Goff, Associate Professor, UCLA; Reverend K. Edward Copeland, New Zion Baptist Church/RAVEN; and David Kennedy, Professor and Center Director at John Jay College. The moderator is Jon M. Shane, Professor at John Jay College. Part of the conference Bridging the Great Divide: Can Police-Community Partnerships Reduce Crime and Strengthen Our Democracy? Held at John Jay College on September 5, 2014.