Want Better Police Relations With the Community? Let Local Youth Train Them [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/23/154:00 AM

As the list of African Americans who’ve died or were maimed in police custody grows, plenty of groups have come forward with ideas and strategies for reform. One idea: How about letting African-American youth train police on how to better interact with their communities? After all, it’s mostly black youthwho are having deadly encounters with police.

This is exactly what happened last week in Baltimore, where teens from theInner Harbor Project, a youth-led social-justice nonprofit, brought police academy cadets and city officers together to train them on how to better serve and protect young people of color.

[For more of this story, written by Brentin Mock, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...h-train-them/399134/]

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