Justice
When Police Officers Sat Down With a Community They Hardly Knew...
Female officers in Seattle are being paired with refugee women new to their city. Now, both groups say they understand each other better.
The events in Ferguson over the last few months have highlighted the troubled relationship mostly white police forces can have with the minority communities they're supposed to serve. Too often, the two groups just don't understand each other.
Ronald Hampton, who worked in law enforcement for 23 years in Washington, D.C., concisely explained in an interview with NPR's Code Switch blog that trust is the key issue: