'If you want to have leaders from the community — Black folks — then they have to start somewhere.' As police departments across the country continue to face significant challenges recruiting and retaining officers, some are turning to HBCUs.
“We are at a point in law enforcement, with retirements and resignations at an all-time high and recruitment at an all-time low, that we must listen to our communities and work better with them,” Lincoln University Police Chief Gary Hill, the director of its law enforcement training program, told Yahoo News.
He also made the case that increasing the number of Black officers will improve the relationship between Black communities and their local police departments. New NYPD Police Academy graduate Frank Cinturati, front, takes a selfie with his company after their graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York on Dec. 28, 2016. The ceremony celebrated 555 new officers who just completed their six months of training. — without also implementing other changes — has only mixed results. Increased minority representation, various studies have shown, has produced little to no improvement in disparities of treatment during, for example, traffic stops.
“We must remove strict environmental barriers to hiring and retention, which keep authentically Black and economically depressed people out of the police force,” she said. “We need authentic and empathetic Black leadership, not smiling Black faces in high places.”
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