Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color.
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
Race is something that's always haunted American policing.
The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.
Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.