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Shirley Rivens Smith
202-635-3138
ln my opinion, police chiefs must very carefully analyze the following variables to effectively address ongoing frictions between the police and African Americans:
- Examine who is being hired to be police officers;
- Determine if existing law enforcement recruit, in-service and supervisory training places adequate emphasis on departmental policies prohibiting racial, ethnic, religious and sexual orientation non-bias based policing and conflict de-escalation protocols;
- Review how their police officers are being supervised;
- Determine if the organizational cultures of their departments is contributing to police/minority tensions; and
- Review the adequacy of discipline when allegations of excessive or unnecessary use of force are substantiated against police officers.
Somewhere l once heard "For things to stay bad, good people have to do nothing." America's top cops have an affirmative responsibility to take immediate steps to reduce police/minority tensions in the jurisdictions they are responsible for protecting.
Clarence Edwards
Vice-Chair
The Organization on Procedural Justice: Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling (OPJ)
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