Search Committee Failing to Bring Community Policing to Albany

Myself and several other SUNY students attended Tuesday night's update from the Police Chief Search Committee to the Common Council Public Safety Committee.

I was very upset to hear the the Search Committee, who has been meeting since December, has failed to have a meaningful discussion concerning a definition of Community Policing. The Search Committee put Community Policing at the top of the requirements in the Police Chief job description. It is absurd that they have yet to discuss a strategy for setting standards, parameters or other ways of judging the viability of the 8 candidates. Jordan from the Times Union covered the meeting and this issue:

"At that meeting, task force member Alice Green raised concerns that, with the interviews just two days away, the eight-member panel had still not had a substantive discussion of the meaning of community policing -- something the public has repeatedly said it wants the next chief to understand."

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