In this clip, a Black woman police officer shares her disappointment with leadership in this moment of police accountability and racial reckoning and how dialogue was limited, and their community relationships were devalued. She recalls how the police department pulled back and leaders tended to “stand down” rather than openly engage in conversations with the community. It damaged a lot of their outreach efforts that they now need to repair and caused a lot of people to leave the department instead of doing the hard work to make changes.
We are outreach. We’ve developed all these relationships in the community and then all of a sudden we’re not valued enough to go out and continue to work with the community.
