police-community relations

These are challenging times for police-community relations due to controversies that have included Ferguson, Staten Island, Baltimore, and South Carolina.

The company encouraged baristas to write the hashtag, #RaceTogether on customers’ coffee cups, in the hopes of initiating a conversation about race.

In a rare forthright address, FBI Director James Comey talks about long history of police bias towards Blacks.

NYPD commissioner William Bratton is doing away with a long-established program that assigns rookie officers to patrol high-crime neighborhoods.

“The incendiary rhetoric used by Eric Holder created a pathway for a false narrative that then became the rallying cry for cop haters across America,” said Milwaukee police sheriff David Clarke Jr.

Daunted by the task of mending relations between police and New Yorkers calling for police reform, Mayor Bill de Blasio invoked the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to urge mutual respect, despite differences in opinion.

As city officials work to soften the New York Police Department’s image and change how officers engage with citizens through reforms and training, part of the effort is happening online.

De Blasio’s characterization of New York City under his predecessor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as a “Tale of Two Cities” won the progressive Democrat a landslide victory. The issue resonated, as did the candidate’s vision for a more equal city.