Volume 8
Educate for Better Police Interactions
By The Veterans Site
Oct/Nov 2016 Edition
Tell the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to work together to
develop a curriculum to improve relationships between cops and the communities they serve that will be taught in
all schools across the United States.
The Petition
The proper training could save countless lives (Image credit:
Paul Zoeller)
America and its police have a problem.
There’s deep divisions in communities all across
the United States and distrust on all sides. Every
day, it seems like more police or members of the
public are being needlessly killed.
What can be done to address this?
Both the public and police departments
need to do a better job of communicating with each other.
Police need to remember their role is to serve the
people of their communities, while the public must
understand the stress involved with the demands
of policing and empathize with the human beings
employed as police officers.
Meeting each other in the middle would go a long
way to improving relations.
To help improve relations between communities
and their police force, we are calling on the Departments of Education and Justice to collaborate on a
program that will help cops and their communities
better get to know each other.
This program will bring cops into schools to teach
kids how to interact with cops while also allowing
law enforcement to better engage with the community and get to know the kids living in it.
By presenting opportunities for interaction between
law enforcement and the communities that does
not involve an intervention or arrest, the hope is
that police and the public will come to better understand each other and im prove relations.
‘To the United States Attorney General and the
Secretary of Education,
As a citizen concerned by the growing instances of
miscommunication between police and the public
and misuse of force, I am writing to the both of you
to request you collaborate on a new and innovative
program that will help cops and their communities
better get to know each other.
This program will bring cops into schools to teach
kids how to interact with cops while also allowing
law enforcement to better engage with the community and get to know the kids living in it. By presenting opportunities for interaction between law
enforcement and the communities that does not involve an intervention or arrest, the hope is that police and the public will come to better understand
each other and improve relations.
Learning how to interact with the police should be
a part of every civics class. It’s important knowledge for every citizen to have, on par with voting or
understanding our governmental system.
Please, work together to create a program that
will address the systemic issues of policing in our
communities. Just talking about cooperation without establishing trust will not be effective. We need
something to prove to these two polarized and distrustful groups that there can be peace between
them, and that they can work together to create
more harmonious societies.
Thank you for your time,’
To Sign the Petition, please go to http://theveteranssite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/vet/petition/
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