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daredtowork

(3,732 posts) Wed Dec 24, 2014, 05:00 PM Dec 2014

Black Cops Balance Duties With Understanding of Racism

This is a nice article that acknowledges problems exist and the need to develop community relations:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Black-cops-balance-job-duties-with-understanding-5976585.php

I hope it isn't just a PR exercise. There has been a recent fuss in nearby Richmond over the fact that police there are not allowed to do anything "political" - and that apparently includes taking a side about police misconduct, re: Ferguson. I wonder if this article had to be "approved" by some consultant first. Nevertheless, I approve of the tone it takes and the direction that it goes in. There needs to be more of the same in Berkeley and Oakland.