Understanding police-community relations.

It was a pleasure to watch Charles Ramsey’s short film. There are many ways in which the legal system and police constitutions are interconnected. Still, we must also understand the history of law enforcement and accept that police departments have not always been on the correct side of justice. Charles Ramsey believes that police are required to transform their aim from enforcing those laws to preserving the right of all. As a result, not only are people’s homes and neighborhoods safer and more secure, but justice is also more readily available. And the blue wall that is supposed to separate good from evil will become a strong thread running through the community to help keep democracy together. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey has devoted the last 48 years of his life to law enforcement, developing policing techniques based on evidence, implementing organizational accountability, and establishing neighborhood-based programs.

When he became president of Major Cities Chiefs, Ramsey established the Leadership Executive Institute to help train the next generation of police chiefs. Lessons learned made it possible to write about the Holocaust’s impact on law enforcement and society. More than 90,000 municipal, state and federal law enforcement officers have seen the program. A law enforcement program was developed with the National Constitution Center that emphasizes the role in a complicated democratic society and seeks ways to promote police-community interactions around the country. To him, the only thing left to them was their dignity and self-respect, and as an officer of the law, it was his duty to protect them. In his view, it is our regular interactions with other humans that are to blame for the negative interactions they have with them.

References

Mending Broken Trust: Police and the Communities They Serve | Charles Ramsey | TEDxPhiladelphia (CC) opens in new window.