How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together | Tracie Keesee

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🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We all want to be safe, and our safety is intertwined, says Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity. Sharing lessons she has learned from 25 years as a police officer, Keesee reflects on the public safety challenges faced by both the police and local neighborhoods, especially in the African American community, as well as the opportunities we all have preserving dignity and guaranteeing justice. “We must move forward together. There is no more us versus them,” Keesee says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features law enforcement professional Tracy Kizzi, recorded live at TED Salon Brightline Initiative, 2018.
0:10.5	You know, my friends, I look at this photograph, and I have to ask myself, you know, I think I've seen this somewhere before.
0:19.7	People marching in the street for justice.
0:22.7	But I know it's not the same photograph that I would have seen
0:26.4	because I wouldn't take my oath to be a police officer until 1989.
0:31.3	And I've been in the business for over 25 years.
0:34.9	And identifying as an African-American woman,
0:37.2	I know things have gotten better. But even as I learned
0:40.7	about public safety, I wondered if what I was doing on the street was hurting or harming the community.
0:47.3	And I often wondered if, you know, how did they perceive me, this woman in uniform?
0:55.8	But there's one thing that I knew.
0:59.2	I knew there was a way that we could do this probably different or better,
1:04.2	a way that preserved dignity and guaranteed justice.
1:08.3	But I also knew that police could not do it alone.
1:11.8	It's the co-production of public safety.
1:15.9	But there's a lot of history with us.
1:19.8	You know, we know loss.
1:29.3	The relationship between the African American community and the police is a painful one,
1:31.9	often filled with mistrust.
1:35.4	It has been studied by social scientists.
1:38.1	It has been studied by government.
1:43.5	All both promising, hopeful new ways, long-term fixes.
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