HANOVER, Md. — The workshop title is simple, straightforward: “Race & the Law.”

The problems it seeks to address are anything but.

Capt. Katherine Goodwin, Western District commander of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, is the only white person in the room — part of a panel of experts leading the session — and she is the one who invites the question.

-The Washington Post, January 3, 2017