As police departments across the country continue to face significant challenges recruiting and retaining officers, some are turning to historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. And while many advocates see this move as an ideal way to increase officer numbers and help diversify a profession that has overwhelmingly employed white men, critics say more Black officers will only serve as a Band-Aid for a broken system.
“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. Goldsby believes that police would benefit from cultivating “homegrown talent” in communities like Cleveland to police the areas where people live and are known.
The prospect of recruiting more Black officers at HBCUs comes down to a simple question of choice for Burkhalter, the New York Law School professor, whose brother and father also served more than two decades in the profession.
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