The Police-Community Divide

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 12, 2014

David Kennedy, professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and director of the National Network for Safe Communities, discusses initiatives that aim to bridge communication divides and build trust instead of suspicion in communities where relations between police and communities of color are fraught.

"If we don't fix the trust issue, everything else is going to fail." @davidmkennedy1 in CR-2 pic.twitter.com/q10hEfpUh1
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 12, 2014

When cops kill in black neighborhoods: "Whites focus on the incident, the neighborhood focuses on the history." @brianlehrer David Kennedy
— Tom Robbins (@tommy_robb) December 12, 2014

"What really needs to happen is police need to go to this neighborhoods & say 'we get it, and we’re sorry.'"@DavidMKennedy1 on @BrianLehrer
— National Network (@NNSCommunities) December 12, 2014

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