More promising signs from the APD, who appear to be listening to the demands that we are making, alongside Albany's communities.
In the Metroland article, Assistant Deputy Chief Brendan Cox states that:
"Internally, we’ve been talking about increasing the number of these autonomous, permanent beats for awhile. But we realized that, if we didn’t take a look at the whole department, and if we didn’t take a look at how we were responding to the community’s needs as a whole, then we were really doing a disservice to ourselves and the public. So we slowed ourselves down a little bit. We wanted to get as many people’s input as we can.”
Cox said that the police would listen to what the community is looking for, what their perception is: “We can go on what we believe the community needs, but we might be missing something. The community is the expert on that.”
Check the link and scroll down to see Chet Hardin's story about the APD's efforts to revive relations between communities and their police:
Police, Meet Community
http://www.metroland.net/newsfront.html
Also see the Times Union's coverage of these efforts from the APD:
Albany Panel to Begin Police Changes
http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=885666
New Cops, Familiar Cops
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=881783&category=OPINION
Police Officers Returning to Beats in Albany
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=878120&category=region
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Thanks, Sam, for your work!
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