Schaefer Center Director: Police Must Enhance Dialogue to Improve Relations
November 30, 2015
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Ann Cotten, director of UB's Schaefer Center for Public Policy, tells WYPR's Midday that the center's new Maryland Policy Choices Survey shows a clear public perception that police officers are not treating blacks and other minorities the same as whites in Baltimore.
In order to address this sense that unfair treatment is routine and widespread, Cotten said, city police should communicate frequently and in depth about their crime-fighting strategies, using the media as a way to explain their efforts.
"They have to be more transparent, and they have to enhance the dialogue" with the community for relations to improve, Cotten said.
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