Kop klatch
Pasadena police to hold community forum in Northwest Pasadena
By André Coleman 03/18/2010
Have something to say to the cops?
Here’s your chance, as Pasadena police officials host the first of four so-called Police Community Dialogues at 6 p.m. March 29 at John Muir High School, 1905 N. Lincoln Ave.
“I am committed to conducting four each year, to continually create a forum for police-community dialogues about topics that are important to the community and our own police employees. These forums will be a place where we can continue conversations that begin in many other places on a much deeper level,” Interim Chief Chris Vicino said in a prepared statement. “It is my intent and my desire that we have as many people come to this as possible so we can begin to plan out the future forums to discuss topics of mutual concern.”
The meetings were established in 2005 after a Police Assessment Resource Center report revealed that African Americans averaged three police stops a year, while whites averaged only one. Fifty-two percent of the African Americans who responded to the survey said they thought that police employed racial profiling.
The report recommended that the department extend the reach of its mediation and dialogue programs, provide information to minority communities, continue seeking the input of officers and involve more officers in community policing projects.
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