Community Policing is an effort that comes out
the community working with the police to
determine the best policing methods for their
neighborhood. This is truly SUPPOSED to be a
partnership.
Community Policing has had a very hard time in
Minneapolis, for several reasons. But when I was
working to try to get a program going in the
Central neighborhood the biggest problem I had
was getting the police to cooperate. They wanted
to design the community policing effort and then
get the community's buy-in. That is not the way
to get a good community policing program going.
The program is supposed to be a true partnership.
IF we can get a good Community Policing
partnership going, racial profiling, and many
other issues would not be the issues they are
currently because the police and the community
would be working in partnership to tackle these
issues in a realistic and humanistic manner.
Community Policing has worked well in other
cities, and I would challenge Chief Olson to work
with one or two neighborhoods until his police
force can get used to actually developing a REAL
partnership with the neighborhoods.
Minneapolis is fortunate to have many community
based programs that are up and running, and
Community Policing, in my opinion, is the natural
next step.
Matthea Smith
Powderhorn Park - 9-4
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MN DFL Affirmative Action Officer
612-724-2997 - Home
612-221-9675 - Cell
"Community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that
these differences do not exist...it is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and
sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as
outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all
flourish." --- Audre Lorde
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