Chicago Police Hope To Build Trust With Experiment In Community Policing

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

With trust in police at a historic low, the Chicago Police Department’s latest community policing initiative puts relationship building at its center.

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0:38.3	Hi. Hi.
0:39.3	Hi.
0:40.3	I'm freelance journalist Carrie Leiderson,
0:43.3	and I'm at Craig and Park watching a group of teenagers play volleyball
0:47.3	with two Chicago police officers.
0:50.3	And it looks like they're having fun.
0:53.3	Thanks for inviting us to your game.
0:56.4	Thank you. It's part of a pilot program designed to revive community policing in Chicago and rebuild
1:03.7	trust. Relationships between police officers and residents have long been tense, especially in
1:10.1	communities of color, and especially since
1:12.5	2015. That's when the video of a police officer shooting Laquan McDonald went public.
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